Houzz News: Now You Can Save All Your Ideas in One Place!
Here's how to gather inspiration, share it with others and get your next project off the ground
A Houzz ideabook is a place where you can store ideas and build dreams. You can now save everything you see on Houzz in your ideabooks, including your favourite home design photos, stories, profiles of home service professionals, products, discussions, notes and other details for your home project.
You can also use your Houzz ideabook to communicate with others working on the project. For example, if you’re dreaming of a kitchen redesign, collecting photos of kitchens you like can help you pinpoint the styles, colours and layouts that appeal to you. When you’re ready to start the redesign, you can email your collection to a pro you’re working with to show what you want and start narrowing down your choices. With a simple setting change, you can let others add comments and save ideas and resources, turning your ideabook into a joint project workbook.
Here’s how you can create your own ideabook on Houzz.
You can also use your Houzz ideabook to communicate with others working on the project. For example, if you’re dreaming of a kitchen redesign, collecting photos of kitchens you like can help you pinpoint the styles, colours and layouts that appeal to you. When you’re ready to start the redesign, you can email your collection to a pro you’re working with to show what you want and start narrowing down your choices. With a simple setting change, you can let others add comments and save ideas and resources, turning your ideabook into a joint project workbook.
Here’s how you can create your own ideabook on Houzz.
Privacy, sharing and collaborating
Once you’ve put the finishing touches on your ideabook, you can share it with friends, family or your home design professional. Click the Invite button underneath your ideabook title, as shown here in the web version.
You can add additional viewers or editors by typing their Houzz username or email address into the search field; you can allow each person to edit or just view the ideabook.
Select the Can View option, for example, to show someone the private ideabook of tile splashbacks you’re considering. Or select Can Edit to give someone the ability to add photos and make comments underneath your own.
After you’ve added your collaborators, click Save Settings. Your collaborators will receive a notification email, so they can help you start making your home design dreams a reality.
Once you’ve put the finishing touches on your ideabook, you can share it with friends, family or your home design professional. Click the Invite button underneath your ideabook title, as shown here in the web version.
You can add additional viewers or editors by typing their Houzz username or email address into the search field; you can allow each person to edit or just view the ideabook.
Select the Can View option, for example, to show someone the private ideabook of tile splashbacks you’re considering. Or select Can Edit to give someone the ability to add photos and make comments underneath your own.
After you’ve added your collaborators, click Save Settings. Your collaborators will receive a notification email, so they can help you start making your home design dreams a reality.
Tell us
Have you used your ideabooks on a recent home improvement project? If so, please share a photo in the Comments section.
Have you used your ideabooks on a recent home improvement project? If so, please share a photo in the Comments section.
Browse through photos on Houzz. When you find something you like, click the Save button at the bottom of the photo, as shown in this kitchen photo (top left; click on the image to enlarge it).
Saving professionals
When you find a home service professional on Houzz you’d like to save for future reference, click the Save button beneath the pro’s profile photo (top right).
Saving discussions
The Advice section offers a plethora of questions and answers uploaded and continuously updated by the Houzz community. Save a discussion to one of your ideabooks by clicking the Save button beneath the discussion title and its author (bottom right).
Saving stories
Houzz Tours, renovating and decorating guides, and other Houzz stories can also be saved to your ideabooks. To save a Houzz story, click the Save button that appears at the top of the story (bottom left).
After you click the Save button, a new screen will pop up, allowing you to add the photo, professional profile, discussion or story to an existing ideabook. You can also create a new ideabook by clicking the title field, then selecting Create New Ideabook.
You can add a comment about the item you saved at this step by typing it into the field labelled What Do You Like About This Photo? You can also add and edit comments on all items in the ideabook later.
Tip: Consider creating separate ideabooks for different projects or themes. You can create as many as you like.