Architect, writer and Houzz contributor John Hill has a few years of tiny-space living experience.
Professionals such as architects, designers and contractors also use Houzz to show their work and attract customers.
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Houzz has well over a million images of rooms and spaces compared with the 20, 000 images on Digs.
Next month, the site will launch Houzz Lightbox, which automatically starts a slide-show mode for scrolling through photos faster.
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Houzz, which has about 60 employees, is focusing with the new funding on building out its team in engineering and product development.
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If you prefer to limit your Houzz to photos of rooms done by designers in your area, you can filter by location.
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Zillow Digs will improve as it goes, but this first version pales in comparison with Houzz, the website and app leader in this space.
Certain items in Houzz images are labeled with tags that show how much an item costs, though Houzz doesn't offer a feature like Digs Estimates.
Along with its images, Houzz offers design and redecorating advice from nearly 170, 000 professionals, including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, general contractors and home stagers.
While Houzz can be used to motivate people to decorate their own homes, it will also direct them to local interior designers who created an admired room.
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People can also browse Houzz's Professionals section to see sample work and sort these pros by location and service to find someone they may want to hire.
Known for its trove of user-generated images of all manner of home remodeling projects, Houzz has been growing rapidly, now at 12 million monthly unique users, up 450% year-over-year.
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Cohen and his wife, Houzz CEO and cofounder Adi Tatarko, came up with the idea when remodeling their Palo Alto home and finding it difficult to find and manage remodeling ideas.
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Houzz, a design and home remodeling site that allows users to create image-driven idea books and source contractors, has arguably become the largest player in the digital home design space, tallying up 10 million monthly users in the final months of 2012.
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