Area rug size planner
Choose a living room, bedroom, or dining room rug size with furniture-aware layout guidance and quick metric or imperial checks.
Specific calculators, planners, and explainers for jobs that usually get buried in forums.
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Home and DIY tools
Household planning tools for paint setup, blinds, rugs, trim, storage walls, deck and stair layouts, shed security, and similar jobs.
These pages cover home-improvement and layout decisions that often get split across calculators, product guides, and forum threads. The aim here is one crawlable cluster instead of scattered one-offs.
Tools in this cluster
Board and batten layout calculator
Turn wall width, batten width, and target spacing into an exact board-and-batten layout with marks and material totals.
Curtain fullness and stack-back planner
Plan curtain width, fullness, and stack back from window or track measurements, heading style, panel style, fabric width, and length allowances, with per-panel sizes, fabric-buying estimates, and open-window clearance warnings in metric or imperial units.
Deck baluster spacing calculator
Find deck baluster counts and spacing that stay inside the maximum opening rule, with exact mark positions and material totals.
French cleat wall planner
Lay out French cleat rows across a wall with equal spacing, cut planning, and material estimates for workshop storage.
Inside vs outside mount blinds planner
Plan inside or outside mount blinds with three-point window measurements, recess-depth checks, overlap guidance, obstruction warnings, and metric or imperial sizing.
Paint applicator selector
Choose a paint setup from project type, coating family, and finish priority, with roller nap, brush type, airless tip, HVLP nozzle, and prep guidance in metric or imperial units.
Paint failure diagnosis guide
Diagnose paint peeling, bubbling, flashing, lap marks, stain bleed, and poor hiding by weighing the symptom, substrate, timing, prep, environment, and coating context into ranked likely causes with practical fix steps.
Photo location privacy checker
Check whether a photo contains GPS EXIF metadata, capture time, altitude, or camera-direction clues that can reveal where it was taken, with local-only browser analysis and a simple world-map view.
Shed security planner
Plan how to secure a shed, bike shed, or garden outbuilding using shed type, valuables, exposure, power, Wi-Fi, and weak-point triage, with lock, anchor, alarm, and camera guidance.
Stair baluster spacing calculator
Plan stair baluster spacing along the rake, keeping openings code-minded while generating install marks and material totals.
Recent launch notes
Launched a photo location privacy checker for GPS EXIF leaks, map context, and share-before-you-send checks
Added a client-side photo privacy checker that reads GPS-related EXIF metadata, explains what location clues a shared image can leak, and plots the exposure on a simple world map.
Launched a paint failure diagnosis guide for peeling, bubbling, flashing, lap marks, and stain bleed
Added an interactive painting troubleshooter that ranks likely causes behind common finish failures and turns them into a practical fix plan.
Launched a curtain fullness and stack-back planner for width, fabric usage, and open-window clearance
Added a curtain planning tool that turns window width, heading style, fullness preference, and fabric width into panel recommendations, stack-back estimates, and fabric-buying numbers.