MyDesignIn: Home Decorating Bookmarking Tool

Aspiring home decorators and designers have a social application all of their own. MyDesignIn.com is a bookmarking tool for products and design ideas. Web savvy home decorating aficionados will probably enjoy using it quite a bit – so I thought.

I decided to test that out by putting my non-tech savvy mom onto it. She’s a home decorator and is always surfing the web for “just the right” thing for clients. She loves it. It turns out that it’s just the type of things she was looking for, instead of having 500 bookmarks all across the web, she has a visual bookmarking tool in MyDesignIn.

So, what can you do with it? From their website:

• Collect: Use bookmarking tools to clip home improvement products from any Website. Capture a visual bookmark complete with a product image, name, an abbreviated description, sizing information and price.
• Create: Draw an interactive, floor plan with just a few clicks. Drag and drop bookmarked products into the blueprint for visualization of a complete design.
• Collaborate: Share your designs with friends, family, design professionals and other community members before making final design and purchasing decisions. Leverage the work of the works of the community to get your product research and remodeling project designs done quickly and easily.

Will MyDesignIn catch on with the home decorators and designers of the world? I don’t know enough about the industry to make a call on that. I think what could really make it work though is a partnership (or buyout) by one of the large home improvement companies (idea via CenterNetworks).