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I want to search for furniture, and other products, based on dimensions. My girlfriend and I furnished a new apartment recently, and had to be space conscious.
by gfosco 13y ago
I want to search for furniture, and other products, based on dimensions. My girlfriend and I furnished a new apartment recently, and had to be space conscious.. This spot next to the couch could fit a 10" wide table. It's not easy to search for that, yet the information is there. My original plan was going to use the Amazon API and take a search term and page through looking for dimensions that fit. I still think it's a great idea, but obviously not huge, and I don't really have time to build it. If you do, hook me up.
- guptaneil 13y agoIn college, I won a business pitch competition with the idea of using a digital laser measure to measure the dimensions of any space, and then only show you furniture that fits within that space. It had some other aspects, but that was the gist of the idea. It looks like Ikea and others are slowly working their way towards that ease of use, but it's still a ways away.
- BruceIV 13y agoRelated concept: when I moved cross-country for grad school I found my landlord on Internet classifieds and got him to send me a floor plan of the apartment; I then measured all my furniture, used LibreOffice Draw to make circles and rectangles that I could print at the same scale (that was surprisingly time-consuming - it would be neat if someone could make that easy), then printed and cut them all out and virtually re-decorated the apartment until I found a layout I was happy with. It was a neat way to do it, but rather labour intensive.
- EwanG 13y agoActually it would be useful if it included measurements of your doors so that items you aren't going to be able to get into the house unless disassembled first can also be appropriately filtered.
- d0m 13y agoTaking a pic of your room and seeing nice furniture virtually added so you can easily test different styles.
- 616c 13y agoPeople are referencing Ikea higher up. I live abroad and was surprised to see Ikea marketing Android/iPhone apps with this ability, and I said audibly to the dismay of people "now that is fucking slick, good for them!"
- pandatigox 13y agoSomebody wrote an app for that :) http://reorganize.amberfeng.com/ http://reorganize.amberfeng.com/
- xur17 13y agoIn college, my senior project involved a 3d room designer using the Kinect and a laptop. You could position virtual 3d objects (couches, lamps, etc) in the room, and move the camera around to see how the virtualized items looked.
- xerophtye 13y agothat sounds so freaking cool :D
- afriend4lyfe 13y agoThere's an app called CSTM that takes this concept to another level with custom built furniture. The furniture is more expensive thusly but also more unique. http://cstm.co/ http://cstm.co/