The Houzz office is very much a green and white affair. In fact, it's mostly white, bar a green fridge, a green kettle, plants and fresh herbs. Our office chairs are white, too, and quite comfortable. Do you have a comfy office chair? What does it look like? If you show us yours, we'll show you ours....

I suspect one trend will be customisation. And that'll happen on the entire scale between "basic habitation" and "luxury home", as well as between "small piece of furniture" and "complex building structure". It'll be used to drive developers' and builders' costs down but also to enable more design features for specifiers at no extra cost. On-demand fabrication (CNC cutting, 3D printing, offsite prefabrication) is already a common thing for higher-end builds where site access constraints or specification details restrict what's possible to make on site. "Prefab lofts" that are just craned up and put into place are only one such example; 3D printed concrete or bricklaying robots are going to enable on-site fast custom construction as well. The price point for these projects is coming down though, so we'll see more projects like the "wiki house" on entry level as well. And not just for self-builders. The potential impact of this on large-scale housebuilding is tremendous; right now, in the U.K., to meet their price point, Developers build 50 identical shoebox houses, while with cheaper customisation they may built 50 foundation slabs with utility connections preinstalled and let customers choose the "actual house" off plan from modular catalogue design. This will create an interesting challenge for planners ... approve a development where it's not entirely predetermined how the houses will look when built... That - customised one-off manufacturing becoming cheaper - will also move applicability towards smaller items. Ultimately, the "next IKEA" might be a (work)shop where your flatpack furniture is made-while-you-wait; browse the display select the style give them a picture of the room taking your new kitchen for the dimensions, the software will give you a 3D VR experience how it'll look&feel. When you know what you want the CNC machine will make the cabinetry to size, right there. The demand for the interior finishes/furniture side of customised manufacturing is in part also going to be driven by housing policy and the need for affordable accommodation; the London Mayor's "naked homes" initiative is a start here, and if it takes off we will see companies addressing the demand for finishing/furnishing such "built but not finished" apartments.

Not at all, the walls were rubbed up plaster so have a textured feel, I just painted them with weathershield white, it’s waterproof and breathable so dosent sweat the walls, the floor is covered a hard rubber interlocking tiles, they are about 4/5mm thick, resistant to petrol, oil etc, not the cheapest thing but looks well. only down side is that the garage can suffer more from condensation in the winter if you don’t run a dehumidifier as the floor is now covered by, what is a waterproof covering (the tiles) so the concre floor can no longer soak any moisture up! i have to run a dehumidifier for this reason. anything else just ask :-)

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