Design Centers Take Off in Atlanta
By Nicole Richardson-Smith
Gone are the days when you purchased a new home with the appliances, flooring,
carpeting and wall colors already chosen for you. Now, more and more Atlanta
builders are offering homebuyers the option of customizing the products for
their new home before they ever move in.
“For such a long time, only custom built homes allowed buyers to make decisions
about the interior and exterior of the home, but now with design centers,
homebuyers can come in and structure their new home themselves,” explains
Rachel Schmidt, design center manager at D.R. Horton Homes.
Considered one-stop shopping, design centers feature endless creative choices
in home design products like flooring, cabinetry, paint, carpeting, custom
extras, and even home entertainment equipment. Within the design centers, the
showrooms highlight the newest trends, and workstations allow for homebuyers to
consult with design associates to create their dream house.
“Design centers offer convenience all under one roof,” says Lauren Colley,
director of John Wieland Designs. “Before design centers, homebuyers would have
to go to vendors all over town to pick out products for their home. Now they
can go to one place and make all the decisions while also having the benefit of
a design professional to guide them.”
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