HGTV.com Introduces Brand New Easy-to-use 'Rate My Room' Feature

Do you have a great space but don't know what to do with it? Or maybe you have a room that's a real show stopper you'd like to share? HGTV.com introduces an exciting new social media feature, "Rate My Room," in which visitors can share photos of their favorite or least favorite room, browse other's spaces for inspiration as well as try their own hand at lending design advice. "Rate My Room" is available only at HGTV.com, the No. 1 online content destination in the Nielsen//NetRatings' Home & Garden Category. (http://ratemyroom.hgtv.com)

HGTV.com's "Rate My Room" is an easy-to-use hub for those who have a flair for decorating and would like to show-off their spaces as well as those who have the desire for design but need some help pulling it together. An easy upload process allows users to submit photos along with thoughts on the existing decor or requests for "design intervention." Users can also rate each room as they browse and post comments allowing for the World Wide Web of design enthusiasts to talk to each other like never before.

"The exciting thing about 'Rate My Room' is it uses the latest technology to enable the oldest type of conversation -- talking to friends and sharing ideas," explains Charity Curley, vice president of HGTV.com. "If you don't have the opportunity to work with a decorator, and not all of us do, you have a great resource right at your fingertips. With 'Rate My Room' HGTV.com is bringing together many minds keen on design to help each other out and share. It's a true virtual decorating community!"

"'Rate My Room' will not only enable sharing between users, but will also be used by the HGTV brand to mine ideas and watch trends as well as an effective and efficient way to scout locations, people and design dilemmas for on-air shows," adds Jim Sexton, senior vice president of Interactive Brands for Scripps Networks. "The HGTV brand has passionate followers who don't just sit back, they take action! 'Rate My Room' may even spawn ideas for entire series, such as happened with the HGTV show 'Bad Bad Bath' which started with an online conversation that invoked strong emotional responses, not too mention some fantastic visuals that just cried out to be on television."

"Rate My Room" is a user-generated companion to HGTV.com's popular "Designers' Portfolio," a sumptuous gallery of more than 1,000 images submitted by more than 100 professional designers who have been featured on HGTV. This collection offers inspiration to transform any room around the house through hundreds of samples that are organized by dozens of categories from bedrooms to bathrooms and searchable by style, from country to eclectic and everything in-between. Favorite rooms can be saved in a personalized My Portfolio folder, as well as printed or emailed to friends. (http://hgtv.com/designersportfolio)

Source: PRWeb