Property brothers

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You know that programme?
Is there anywhere that you can find that sort of diy projection software or app?
Looking for something like a kitchen/bathroom planner.

Sorry can't help but loving the software! Are we talking about 'Buying and Selling' on Channel 47?

The one I'm watching is sctually called Property Brothers, but it's the same brothers! Will check out buying and selling.

If you look carefully what they actually show you on that particular programme is a photo of the finished room which has then had a photo filter applied to it to make it look like a drawing.

There are interior design software packages but they either have very limited options or else they are very expensive.

I haven't seen the actual program, so I'm guessing here from your description, but I think what you might be talking about is called 'augmented reality'.

There is software now available that allows us (architects) to generate photorealistic CAD models of finished buildings and to 'project' then onto an existing space (room or landscape).

One way of doing it is that you view the space through the camera on your tablet or smartphone, and the finished building magically appears on the tablet/smartphone's screen, superimposed in the correct position on the real background. Does that sound like what you're talking about?

I can point you in the direction of software that can do that sort of stuff, but the cost would be prohibitive for something like bathroom or kitchen planning, at the moment, unless you have very, very deep pockets.

Which programme User- buying and selling?

Property brothers is slightly different, they have to show the plan to the client beforehand.

Sensus- Dulux have that type of thing for colours- I found that helpful.
How much are you talking about?
Mind, I don't even have a computer at the moment!

"How much are you talking about?"

It's not the viewer software that's necessarily the problem, it's the fact that creating a photorealistic CAD model of whatever you want to view is a skilled and time-consuming process.

It depends on the complexity of the model you're creating, of course, but you're usually looking at a 4-figure sum.

There are lots of Chinese/3rd World CAD operatives offering the service at cut prices to architectural practices like mine (high £hundreds to take our architectural CAD drawings and create a fairly basic but convincing rendered model of something like a house), but then communication becomes a problem, if you're trying to explain to them exact detail of what interior fixtures and finishes you need.

No doubt the TV programme has access to a team of graphic designers/animators with the necessary skills, and the costs to them may be acceptable in terms of the overall production cost of a TV programme, but it would be a very expensive luxury to help you pick your kitchen units!

I think you can use a very basic version of this type of software on Google

Google?

It's more than a kitchen/bathroom planner that I need. It's more knocking down walls, changing windows etc.

Sarah Beeny used something on a tablet on Double your house for half the price, or whatever that was actually called. Worth looking on Channel 4/More 4 or her website for info.

"I think you can use a very basic version of this type of software on Google"

If you mean Google Sketchup (now no longer Google - SketchUp has been sold to a company called Trimble), then yes, you can overlay a SketchUp model onto a photograph and match it to the background.

Here's very simple one that I did to show new reconstruction of an existing listed building (and as such, of course, we actually wanted the new work to be easily distinguishable from the existing masonry that remained).