visual visionaries

Online decor services easily and inexpensively storyboard fashion choices for your home.

› By Angelique Anacleto

Here’s a puzzle: You need help to either uniquely fill your empty box of a living space or freshen your challenged abode, all on a beer budget. For the truly style stumped, online interior design services can ease the guesswork and inject a dose of collaborative fun while kitting out your place.

For a flat fee, deft cyberdesigners can remotely pull together a virtual dashboard of exciting colors, motifs, materials, furniture and accessories. The process concludes with a complete shopping list, plus recommendations on where to plop your new statement pieces based on uploaded photos of your space, measurements and any existing furnishings. Follow this “under $300” referral list to get clicking and start picking.

Note: Fees are per room.

Havenly

(havenly.com): free-$199

In two business days, a contact from a 100-plus designer corps refines initial ideas with you, followed by a 3-D rendering, recommendations and up to two revisions. A shopping concierge then assists with ordering curated products from more than 150 retailers. Design Quickie (free) o ers a 30-minute designer chat.

Havenly Mini ($79) features three initial ideas narrowed to one concept, one revision, one to two weeks of design time and two weeks of post-design support.

Havenly Full ($149-$199) expands to two revisions, two to three weeks of design time, four weeks of post-design support, 3-D visualization and a floor plan.

Interior Design Service Online

(interiordesignserviceonline.com): $35-$299

A la carte menu includes: Room Review ($35) for three recommendations, Paint Color Consultation ($50) and Furniture Layouts ($175) o ers three layout options per room for existing and new furnishings. Custom Room Design ($299) features a preliminary design board after one week, revision after seven days, and final 2-D rendering after three days, plus floor plan and shopping list.

Laurel & Wolf

(laurelandwolf.com): $59-$249

Light package ($59) quickly refreshes with an initial concept from one designer, five days of collaboration, a final concept board, shopping list and purchasing service.

Classic’s ($149) more comprehensive plan provides 10 days of collaboration, unlimited design revisions, space planning, a style board and floor plan.

Signature ($249) presents three initial designers from whose work you select.

Homepolish

(homepolish.com): $130/hour

NousDecor

(nousdecor.com): $299

Plus package’s eight- to 10week process generates five design concepts, a personalized theme, a floor plan, elevations, shopping service, chat support, a 3-D rendering and installation guidelines.

Register for a complimentary consultation and video chat per hour with one of 500 designers.

Decorist

(decorist.com): $299

Boasting expertise nationwide, a two- to three-week process entails two initial design concepts, messaging, final design, floor plan, instructions and online shopping assistance.