Ikea’s augmented reality app, games a bliss for Handyman NYC

An apartment in NYC might cost you more than it does to renovate and repair it. The small

handyman jobs like furniture assembly, TV installation, custom shelves assembly, carpentry

service, electrical service, emergency locksmith, plumbing services etc. will eat up your

budget swiftly.

While the furniture installation is a time consuming task when the customer isn’t able to find

out furnishings and furniture pieces that exactly suit their spaces. However, now technology

like computer apps have come to aid consumers in making their choice after a virtual

preview of their space with selected installations.

Ikea is a provider of wide range of furniture and with the passage of the time; it learned

what difficulties consumer face while planning furniture installation. One of them is to be

able to create a visual through imagination. It’s not easy for all, therefore, Ikea thought of

removing the pain of checking compatibility and fitting through its augmented reality app,

which is simply called the Ikea Catalog. The app is available for download at App Store or

Google Play.

That means you can provide a better idea to your handyman in NYC on what exactly you

need him to do.

The app displays all Ikea products when you turn on mobile camera facing a particular room

in your house. It works with both Android and iOS mobile devices. You can pick products

from Ikea catalogue and place them virtually at any spot in the chosen room. To get the

measurements right, you need to place Ikea’s 2014 paper catalogue on the floor. The app

will use it to gauge the size of the room and will show you 3D models of products at the

correct scale. About 90 products are available with the app.

Ikea also offers tool-free furniture assembly with a new type of fastener that lets consumer

to assemble the pieces into the furniture in less than four minutes, and that can be done

without a single tool. It might sound costly, but as compared to what handyman in New York

will charge to install a kitchen cabinet, it’s quite affordable.

The wrench, assortment or dowels and metal connectors have been reduced to articulated

wooden nubs, and these new dowels can be popped into the panels wherever a consumer

want them. Other than that it’ll ask you to line them up with a routed notch in another

panel, slide the dowels into the top of the opening, and then push them down to slide into

place.

That means a whole lot less headache and time saving process. So, isn’t that cool?

If you still doubt, then you must read about the review by one of the consumers in

Manhattan who took less than three and a half minutes to assemble an Ikea bookcase he

had bought. His inspiration was the lack of affordable handyman in Manhattan.

Ikea also let users built virtual pieces of furniture through its game ‘Home Improvisation’.

However, the reviews claim it to be tedious task instead of fun loving game, but it still

works, more or less.

Source: Handyman at your Service