Decor Matters: Home Design App Reviews

It’s nearly the dream design app...but they overlooked some tiny but SEVERELY ANNOYING technical flaws that impure gameplay. There is a pop up button when an item is selected recommending similar items & you cannot make it go away. I have an iPhone 8 & on my phone that button covers the perspective slider so I cannot ever use that function. It limits my selection of items to next to nothing because I cannot properly place them in the room. Also, don’t think about using anything white, silver, or pale. DecorMatters cannot tell the difference between the item and the background & automatically deletes major parts of it (or won’t delete an obscure shape of part of the background). I’ve spent hours trying to clean up images to make them look halfway decent & not obstruct the other items in the room, but eventually came to the conclusion that the majority of them are just not worth trying. Scaling could also be improved, many of the rugs cannot be enlarged to fit the entire room (at least not sideways the way I’ve had to position them because of the perspective slider) & several of the final touches won’t scale down enough to fit on the tables & look natural. Lastly, while I do enjoy the ability to design outside of the challenge & the free materials (they are the highlights of the game), like any interior design game I find the quantity of challenges lacking. Especially the more advanced ones with requirements.

Finally! The interior design game I’ve been looking for! And free too!!! This game gives free will for designing a room without having to purchase coins or diamonds; or voting (for what seems like forever) on rooms for tickets to design your own room. The only (small) downfall in the organization of items for rooms. Looking through accent chairs will also pull up random mirrors or tables. Searching for specific items is almost pointless because you’ll get everything but what you’re looking for. Maybe I’m just too new to this game and haven’t figured the search part out yet; but still, searching for “bowl of fruit” (because this game gives you the chance to be that detailed and specific- one of the pluses of the game) should be a bit easier and not show pillows or wall decor. Another thing I really enjoy is that it’s a type of social media. Almost like instagram. You can comment and like and follow other “designers”, even give gifts that give coins. I haven’t figured out what the coins do for you yet. Anyways, this game is great and I really hope someone behind it can narrow down the search option and categorize the thousands upon thousands of items to design with. Maybe that’s the problem, too many items to begin with?

The first design I did was tedious to put together and very frustrating. I kept with it though, and I'm improving my skills for using the tools provided. If you are used to design programs like Photoshop, you'll be frustrated too. You are very limited on what you can put in a room because you have to find pieces that are the right angle for the room. There are a few options to edit what you choose, but not enough to make it perfect. You can change the perspective, but it Doesn't let you change the shape so you can get the right shape/perspective. There should be some paint brush options so we can add shadows where things should be darker, to help make the rooms look so flat and fake. I also wish that there were more filter options so I could search by style of room to only choose from the theme I'm going for. It would save me a lot of time looking through items. I really hope they add these things in the future. I love seeing the creative things people come up with, and I love the idea of these challenges to make you design a room for a specific purpose. The graphic designer in me needs these editing changes to happen for me to give a 5 star rating. I can already see that DecorMatters is going to be very addicting and fun!!

I NEVER write reviews for ANYTHING. I have been raving about DecorMatters ever since I stumbled upon it several days ago. I was itching for something to “play” as far as interior design goes (it’s my absolute obsession and dream). Just like others have said, there are other design games but cost money and MAKE you put things in certain areas. This game truly gives you freedom. I love that I can look at my “works of art” and know that I designed each and every aspect of it with the exception of the 4 walls and some small details (which are usually easily covered except they incorporate such beautiful details you wouldn’t want to anyway). There are endless options and OMG I just found the option to put your OWN elements into it as well. I am so thankful I found this because it’s truly a hobby of mine. Although I’ve been staying up way too late messing with it, it is amazing. I’m very disappointed in the people who have given this less than great scores. They’re either not very technically savvy, or pompous. Just saying!

You had an amazing game... best decoration game ever in my opinion! And the thing that made it the best: it was almost completely free. Now you have to buy coins and participate in challenges and furniture costs money.... you should not have done this. Now it is WORTHLESS. I wish that you would go back to the free aspect, you had a love catalog of things from shops and I know for a fact you made some money from buyers through your link- and everyone that ever ended in a challenge or at the top of a page had a premium he render subscription. And that was at least 2,000 people paying like 5 bucks for month. I know your never going to go back to the older aspect... but just know you have lost a lot of users to this update...
I’m so so sad that my favorite app has turned into a money sucking cash app. I am so so so so so so sorry for anyone who is thinking about getting DecorMatters because they see “Free! 🥴” in the video... it’s not.. you start off with 1000 coins and each price of decent furniture cost 100 coins... that means you can only put 10 prices of good furniture in the template.. developers I know you probably won’t read this but if you do then please respond with what you have planned for the future of the game and if it will become anymore than a cash cow.

I freaking LOvE DecorMatters. It gives you complete freedom when designing a room unlike other games this style. And the best part is it takes no in-game money to buy any of the furniture and you can use the piece as many times as you want. On top of that, you can even add your own furniture from your home. The scenes also give you complete free range as to where you’d like to put furniture and objects there’s no limit to how much you put into a room or where to put any of it. As far as selection goes there are literally thousands of items to choose and each category even down to the plants I’ll spend a half an hour just picking out the plants for one room because there are so many options . I always felt as though the other design games were restricting my creativity. This game breaks down all those barriers and allows you to just completely enjoy yourself without any limitations. five stars all the way. Xoxoxo

I have used four different apps... this app is by far the best app I have ever been affiliated with. DecorMatters has a wonderful community of extremely talented designers, all are kind and welcoming. By the time you have finished a couple of designs you will be in love, It is one of the easiest design apps to use.
However, let me talk a bit about the staff and administration. Five Star is the thing you want to remember. Never have I dealt with a team as supportive as the this app staff and administration. They truly care if your experience is a good one. Always available, if you have a question your answer is only a few hours away. So please join us for a very fulfilling experience. We will be waiting for you. Thank you for reading my review. I have been a regular on DecorMatters for over a year now and I do not plan on going anywhere else. Looking forward to designing with you. Please look me up.
Sincerely,
Jok

DecorMatters offers a variety of ways to use it. You can choose an item and see what it actually looks like in your home. Or you can choose one of their templates to create your design. Items include but are not limited to furniture, wall decor, rugs, curtains, art and many others. You can even upload your own items to use in your design. DecorMatters is free, however there is a fee you can pay if you want to upload many of your own items. There are challenges to compete with the other designers, and they are all so friendly. I have been using DecorMatters for almost 2 years and have made so many new friends from all over the world. Sometimes there are challenges where you can actually win a prize. This is definitely an app that never disappoints.

DecorMatters is wonderful. I used it to decorate several rooms in my house, as well as my mom's living room. You can take a picture of a room and just decorate it using DecorMatters and the available selection of items, which has enough variety to give you an idea of how your room will look for any given style. It's really cool how you can increase/decrease the size of items and rotate them, etc., so it really looks like it's in your room. I used to be a pretty awful decorator, just picking out stuff I liked in stores and hoping it looked good. Now I really know how my "vision" will translate into real life, and can plan out my purchases better so they work with the big picture. I'm obsessed with DecorMatters.

I love the fact that there are so many options to choose from and I’ve noticed that almost every three days or so there are new furnishing added to the collections so you end up with even more endless options.

There are a couple things I wish that could be fixed though. When trying to be selective of the color of the furniture the color slider to choose your color isn’t very exact. It doesn’t have options like “red” but “rust red” and when you aren’t selective of this filter after swiping down for a long time you are able to find truly red furnishings.

Also the scaling of small objects, I sometimes work a big room and I’d like to put stuff on shelves in the very back wall but the size of these accessories can’t go further and end up being too big. Maybe if you added a toggle slider to adjust the size to the smallest it can get.

I wish you would be able to paint walls too. Or add a specific wall paper or texture.

And lastly, I think it’s best to make sure that all the furnishings have all the angles so one can use them without being stuck with just 2-3 angles that might not work for our design.

Above anything else I adore DecorMatters and would never stop using it if new spaces are added every once in a while.

I am in love with DecorMatters. Love all the choice and the fact that it's free, unlike another one I tried. It does have a few issues though.

One issue I've encountered is that I worked really long and hard a room. I clicked the save button, message popped up that said saved, exited DecorMatters but came back to make sure my room was saved. I was so frustrated and upset that my room vanished, along with all the time and hard work I put in for it. That needs to be fixed.

Another issue is the fact when you try to use the masking tool to take out unwanted areas, it is really not the easiest thing to use. Since there are really no instructions on how to use this tool, you have use trial and error. Sometime you get the results you want and many times you don't. One suggestion would be to employ a system similar to Microsoft Word's program where you use lines and various shapes by snapping lines.

Also, there needs to be a help button with a few answers on how to use some of the tools and buttons.

These a few of the most frustrating problems I've seen.

I hope this helps. I do love the game, just wish there were less frustrating moments.


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DecorMatters is wonderful. I used it to decorate several rooms in my house, as well as my mom's living room. You can take a picture of a room and just decorate it using DecorMatters and the available selection of items, which has enough variety to give you an idea of how your room will look for any given style. It's really cool how you can increase/decrease the size of items and rotate them, etc., so it really looks like it's in your room. I used to be a pretty awful decorator, just picking out stuff I liked in stores and hoping it looked good. Now I reallyknow how my "vision" will translate into real life, and can plan out my purchases better so they work with the big picture. I'm obsessed with DecorMatters.

I had used another design app. It scored your work and you had a limited selection of products, PLUS a budget! You could only do so much with their “way” of working. Then I found DecorMatters via Instagram and I’m absolutely hooked!!! My husband and I are getting our ducks in a row to retire within the next couple of years. We’re looking for a retirement home (not the nursing home type, the lakeside type)!! Plus, we will most likely remodel our home of 30 years, so our daughters can have it. DecorMatters gives ALL the information where I can purchase the items that I’m “playing” with! It’s a win win all the way around!! I would recommend it to home builders and real estate agents also. I just can’t get enough!

Of course DecorMatters is wonderful especially to us Polyvore addicts and it has a great feel, but there are some areas that really need tweaking like: the tools for clearing out backgrounds for sharper edges, saving your work without having to delete all previous versions, furniture and accessories having more than one direction and less background and above all, displaying a clean, sharp final output...right now it has a haze or blurriness to the overall board which is so distracting and unattractive. One last thing, I wish we could add animation slogans and figures, color blocking, a typing feature and a way to add on from furniture stores we are familiar with. Those are my points and I hope they will be incorporated in the future! Then it would really be a 5star app!!!

DecorMatters is so freaking cool! I had my eyes on a sofa from Pottery Barn for the longest time, but I wasn’t sure if it would match with my current living room. My wife and I were really frustrated because we did not want to spend that much money on something that we would end up hating. So, I went on DecorMatters store and did some searching. I came across this app and to my surprise, I was so happy and grateful. The augmented reality option makes my life SO much easier because I can finally be able to design my room just the way I like it without having to run back and forth from the furniture store lol!!! If you guys are looking for a good app, be sure to check out this one because it is totally worth it.

If you love designing and enjoy free reign in the process, then you will find freedom and satisfaction in DecorMatters. No more forced voting, no high-priced in- app furniture to buy, all free! If you want to add your own decor, which is not mandatory, then the inventory spots are very reasonably priced. Editing tools are available to further enhance images. Results are endless when one masters the editing tool. The best thing about DecorMatters are the fellow designers who make up a community of encouragers. DecorMatters is further supported by the creators’ involvement in design challenges, helpful blogs, and rewarding outstanding designs. By far, the best decorating app available. This is also a great tool for those who suffer anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues.

UPDATE! this app has made some vast improvements since my initial review and they continue to do so! I am officially addicted! You can now easily communicate with other users! There seem to be more quality items available for use!

If you love design you have to check it out! I do have more changes on my wish list but I’m very pleased with the ones I’ve seen! Keep up the great work DM!

Original review: This is a fun app but they need to make some improvements. A lot of the items cannot be used because they have backgrounds that can’t be edited. On the up side you can import items and edit them. It’s also hard to communicate with other users directly. The contests are repeatedly won by the same users over and over. Not nearly as user-friendly as Urstyle or trendMe and other design apps out there. I truly miss my Polyvore 😥 Also restricted to Apple users only.

That being said, this is not a bad review, it is meant to be helpful to the admins to use for future improvements. The admin seems very receptive to their users and it is still a pretty fun app! I hope to revise this to a 4 or 5 star review in the future!

This is app is amazing! All the other apps I have tried I either have to pay or I have to unlock stuff or there are just ads every 2 seconds but in DecorMatters there is none of that. If I want a chair or item from my house I just have to take a picture of it and I can put it wherever on the template, also you can take a picture of somewhere where you want to decorate and that will be the space where you can decorate in DecorMatters . With all the items there is a price and website where you can buy it if you really like the item and want to buy it for your house. I WOULD RECOMMEND DecorMatters!

I ABSOLUTELY LOOOOOVE DecorMatters! I can design to my hearts desire without worry about coins or points to use! However, I really hope the search tool would find the items I type in. For instance, if I type in “puppy” nothing puppy shows up instead it’s everything else but an animal :( or some items are blank no matter if I’m on WiFi or not. Kinda frustrating when you have a idea but can’t put it together because you can’t find it. But I’ve learned to think of other words like pet or dog or fluffy to find it. Other than that, I’ll continue to use DecorMatters to expand my creativity. Thank you so much for this!! 🤗

If you love to design rooms in your home this is DecorMatters for you! What I find really cool once you’re done decorating your room you can actually find out exactly how much money it will cost you to buy each product and you can actually purchase them from here as well how cool is that! I don’t even let you take a picture in your house of the room you want to decorate and then you can go for it so it’s not only an app for people who like to interior decorate. It’s also an app for people who want to decorate their own home! And the best thing of all is that it’s completely free completely free!There are absolutely no hidden fees!!!

I like this app. It’s a fun app. I was a Neybers user before they shut down DecorMatters , and DecorMatters has been a good sub. However, I wish there were a few little tweaks that could be made. First off, a positive is that they have a big inventory of design items and fun challenges. Cons: I would give it five stars if they could make a cutting tool to crop. The cropping tool they use is like a painting tool and distorts it in the design so some of the inventory is unusable. Also i noticed that when i save a design that the inventory is stacked on top of each other and the design is not saved how I designed it. That is extremely annoying. So if those couple of things can be fixed, I’d be a happy camper. Thanks for the fun though DM 👍🏽

I have been using DecorMatters for one year now. I have seen how people have gotten bullied and have at the end left. The bullies always remain and the DM team never does anything about it. It is beyond me that grown up people, mothers and grandmothers, engage in such behavior. What’s even more appalling is the lack of response by the DM team. They don’t have a zero tolerance against offensive comments (I’m talking about making fun of people’s appearance and being cussed at) and plain bullying. Several of us have tried to address this issue but it all falls on deaf ears. So join at your own peril, I can guarantee that the DM team will not come to the rescue.

I have a relatively small place (San Francisco, you know), so it’s good to know what will look nice but also fit in before I really get into it and rush to buy it. DecorMatters helps me to know what I can do with my little lovely space so I Appreciate A Lot! More importantly, it gives me kinds of views of how my place can be like. I don’t have time just to browse around fashion magazines or spend hours online to learn how to make a place not only functional but also amazing. Luckily I have Decor. Now I can play with it try out different opportunities and avoid the risk of buying the wrong thing. Thank you, Decor, mu life is better now because of you.