The short answer: Yes.

Moving is a really personal thing. You box up all your belongings, each holding a certain amount of life and stories, and move them. Sometimes across state lines, sometimes for a new job or partner, sometimes to the first home you own – or sometimes, leaving behind your first home. It’s emotional, a lot of work, and can be really hard.

Having moved across the world myself to take on business school while raising a family, I feel like I can say pretty assuredly that the average recently moved person doesn’t think to themselves, “I need an interior designer,” or even “I need a place that reflects my style but also is within my budget.” They’re probably thinking, “I need to make this a home, my home, ideally as fast as I can.”

Home is a feeling. It’s also a place. And it just happens to be a place that also needs furniture to make it so. That’s where Collov comes in.

Collov Home Design 3D Render of client Mid-Century Modern living room

We want to empower anyone with any budget to create a home – one that reflects their life, their dreams, and their unique personalities. We believe everyone deserves to feel happiest when they’re at home.

So how do we do that? Collov is a virtual interior design and shopping platform, reimagining the way you make your house into a home. Think of it as a one-stop-shop for all of your home design needs - from the planning, to the shopping, all the way down to the shipping, we take care of everything for you.

With a plethora of interior design companies and plenty of furniture and decor e-commerce options, you might be wondering what is it that needs such a reimagining. Well, based on my own experience, I’m happy to lay it out for you - problem by problem. Don’t worry! We’ve got matching solutions.

Problem: Making a home feel stylish, beautiful, and me is expensive.

Solution: Collov can create beautiful designs on any budget – it all depends on what you want. It’s a myth that style takes a lot of money. You can 100 percent create a beautiful space using budget brands like many of our brand partners.

Problem: But isn’t interior design expensive and inaccessible?

Solution: Collov starts at $45 for a customized, highly personal design.

A traditional interior designer costs between $2,000 and $5,000. Using Ai and sophisticated software, we are able to connect customers with a real, in-house design team who create custom designs, fit your space, budget, and life, starting at just $45

Problem: Okay, but how will I really know if that looks good there?

Solution: We create highly realistic custom 3D designs of your exact home.

As a person who recently bought and furnished a house, I get it. Our 3D renders are highly realistic – in fact, most people wonder if they are photographs. Typically, an interior designer will charge $200 per render, but for Collov, this is part of the $45 design fee.

Collov Home Design 3D render of client Mid-Century Modern dining room

Problem: Furniture purchased through an interior designer or design platform is always more expensive.

Solution: Not with us! We believe in transparency so much we literally have a High Style, Low Price Guarantee.

We have no mark up on items sold through our platform, Collov. In fact, we can often out-low the lowest price on the market. If even at the lowest, the item feels too expensive, we can search for a stylish, suitable alternative.

Problem: Ordering everything from different websites is a pain, and getting your designer to do this for you comes at an added fee.

Solution: With Collov you can purchase everything from your design in one single checkout.

With Collov you can shop your design in one easy checkout–no need to order from a million different sites, even if they range from Overstock to Crate and Barrel. There is no added fee for this.

Problem: Working with interior designers takes too long.

Solution: Technology paired with real people makes design fast, and high quality. Designing a house can take an interior designer 4-5 months to complete. We can measure your home, design it, and select all your furniture in 3 weeks.

Problem: Shipping, tracking, and returns are unclear or difficult whether you are doing it on your own or using an interior designer.

Solution: Collov Concierge will manage your shipping, tracking, deliveries, and returns.

At Collov, we are transparent with your shipping, tracking, and returns, and as much as possible, we do it for you. Our return policy is the same as our vendors’. If something is non-refundable, we alert you of it before you make your purchase.

Collov Home Design 3D render of client Modern open space living & dining room

No one thought bed and breakfasts needed to be fixed before Airbnb came around, or that there was anything that could be improved with taxis before Lyft came to be.

Maybe up until now, retailers have been thinking about furnishing a house instead of creating a home. Maybe we can rethink the way people make an empty room into a home. Maybe Collov is poised to help people take a house and not just fill it with material objects, but with a collection of people, memories, stories they love, all thanks to the perfect things that make the perfect space for people to gather together or lay their hats down and say, “I’m home.”

We certainly think so.

This LinkedIn article was written by Brittany Diaz, Social Media & Content Director, for Nicole Wang, Founder and CEO of Collov Home Design.

Published December 13th, 2020, as Nicole’s debut article as Founder of Collov.

Live LinkedIn Article can be found here.