Hot New Tool: Room Planner!

Stephanie Edwards 

As many average college students living on their own know, unless you have the perfect apartment, you will have to move from place to place every year. So will the millions of Americans who move into different houses, apartments, and condos everyday. This can make moving, setting up, and planning where to put all of your furniture a daunting and stressful process, especially if you have many items or too much/too little space. Thanks to the people at Pottery Barn, setting up furniture worries can be a thing of the past with their new Room Planner tool! They have created a revolutionary new tool that helps ANY user, not just its customers, to put in the exact (or estimated) dimensions of any room they wish, select any kind of furniture they have from the many furniture options they have provided, and customize a room layout to your liking!

What’s great about the room planner tool is that it gives users the option of seeing all of the different ways their furniture could be arranged without having to physically pick up all of their furniture and move it across the room. The user could get on the room planning tool before they even move to figure out where they would want all their belongings to go in an exact little replica of that specific room! This helps save on time, moving stress and worries, and in some cases money as well. The tool is also great for people who aren’t moving, but just want to see how else the furniture in their home could look or just play around with all of the different options! The tool also lets you see the dimensions of anything you put in the specific room you are planning to let you know how much space they will take up.

PROS:

• Allows user to play around with tons of different room layout and furniture layout options
• Many furniture options are pre-loaded in an online gallery making it easy for the user to select common household items they may already have
• Can eliminate moving stress by helping the user figure out furniture placement in advance
• Helps users who are bored of their current furniture arrangement figure out new furniture placement options
•  Allows user to use almost exact dimensions of specific room and furniture
• Fun and easy to use for all ages!

CONS:

• If user is trying to input the dimensions of a room with many corners/angles the tool may not work as well
• Not every single piece of house hold furniture can be found on the online gallery, making it difficult to accurately get 100% precise measurements
• Can only select Pottery Barn brand furniture (keep your furniture in that back of your head!)

FINALLY:

All and all, I would say that his tool is very useful and a good tool to have handy before a big move. It can really help save a lot of unwanted stress and pressure. I would recommend this tool to other college students/people about to move as a reference for them incase they are like me a like to have everything all figured out ahead of time. For more information or to try the tool out for yourself, visit the link below.

 http://www.potterybarn.com/design-studio/tool/living_rooms_room_planner.html