There is clearly a growing trend in the design field where technology and the internet help both amateurs and professionals seek out new ways to reach clients and make business. Some platforms, profiles, and databases provide inspiriting design trends, lists of designers, contractors, and companies, and their design project outcomes. Essentially the overall objective is to present the client with a user friendly yellow page like option to select who to work with, where to buy supplies from, and what styles to pursue.The growing list of websites and apps have their own service direction. The site that evidently provides a full A-Z 'partner' for online client is Kukun. The site has many similarities with its competitors with a twist of, well, simply more. Dering Hall is 'an online marketplace' where interior designers, architects, and designs can showcase and sell their work. Porch produces a list of local architects and trade professionals along with the links to their work as well as which Facebook friend has used their services. Adornably is an app that allows the user to select furniture of interest and place them in a digital image of the space desired for their placement. If the object fits then the buyer is more convinced and able to purchase the item online directly through the Adornably. Houzz is likely to be one of the most popular sites in its category of image database with links to furniture options in the various presented 'inspirational' pictures. And the list keeps going.
Kukun provides 'inspiration' with the intention of guiding the client through their own home renovation. The online user needs to simply register and describe the project, from a simple kitchen design to entire home makeover, and the site will navigate the rest. While there is a free online magazine with articles about current interior trends, European tendencies crossing the Atlantic, etc.; Kukun also handles budgeting and estimating, presents a local professional database, and offers comparison platforms. Kukun is more focused on getting homebuyers and owners to quantify how much it will cost to do any project and determine the effect of any renovation onto the value of their respective house. They have used a smart algorithm to derive from historical data the effect of certain changes to the house onto its future value..it is all patent pending and they promise to do more for the homeowner to help them manage the execution of the project not just conceive it including hiring the right professional through a standard process hiring process (check their references, create bids etc) rather a dating processes as practiced by its competitors.
Not every homeowner who intends to renovate is going to know first hand nor have advance understanding of the process, deadlines, costs, and simple stress until the project literally begins. So, the site is a pretty good guide to amateurs and experienced renovators who want the process to be not simply 'easy' but delineated and planned for an efficient, precise, on track course with intended and designed results.
for more info: http://mykukun.com/
