When it comes to picking out important new features for the exterior of your home, nothing is more useful than an accurate vision of how it will look in real life. And with the latest upgrade to CertainTeed’s user-friendly CurbAppeal app for iPad iOS 7.0 or later, you no longer have a good excuse for belaboring those critical decisions.

With CurbAppeal, “experimentation is easy, with tap and pick simplicity on a new 3D-rendered model house that allows a fun, interactive experience for enhancing or expanding exterior living spaces,” Siding Products Group Marketing Director Matt Gibson said in a recent announcement.

The household name in building materials — soon moving its main office from Wayne to new corporate headquarters in Fraser — combined the realistic visuals with decision-making tips to offer users a simple, step-by-step product option review and selection process that compares siding, decking, railing, fence, roofing, accents, trim, columns and more.

“With CertainTeed’s wide range of products, CurbAppeal users are encouraged to exercise their imagination and explore color and design combinations to express their personal taste and lifestyle preferences,” the company stated.

In particular, the newest version of the app improves the home screen navigation, adds the 3D model home rendering and accompanies two other web-based design tools for even more exterior customizations: ColorCoach and ColorView.