It’s been a strange year. While many businesses in the retail space of suffered from pandemic-related shutdowns or lackluster sales, others are booming, like the home improvement industry.
Spending more time at home in 2020, homeowners have shown a tremendous appetite to make home improvements, particularly to outdoor garden spaces or exterior surfaces of their home.
Recognizing that interest, an Ohio exterior building products company, ProVia, has developed a “Design It” collection of online exterior design tools and resources intended to help homeowners plan out their home improvement projects.
The tools help homeowners navigate the options for ProVia’s various exterior building products, including:
- Residential metal roofing– so durable, it will be the last roof you put on your home.
- Multiple types of house siding– with options for siding width, texture and colors;
- Custom entry doors, including exterior fiberglass doors and steel doors– realistic woodgrain doors that offer high energy efficiency and many options for door panel styles and custom glass;
- Custom home replacement windows– energy-efficient all-vinyl windows as well as windows with real wood interiors that meet Energy Star certification;
- Manufactured stone veneer for interior and exterior stone applications– styles that mimic the colors and textures of nature while providing long-term beauty and ease of installation;
ProVia’s homeowner design resources help users view options for individual products or to envision their home with various product combinations. The goal is assist homeowners in creating the aesthetic they desire for their house and be comfortable with their product selections before making a purchase.
The exterior home design tools include:
- Home design photo galleries– view ProVia products in use on other homes;
- Door, Window, Siding, Stone and Roofing Visualizer– an online exterior home design tool that enables homeowners to upload an image of their own home and view options for various products, styles and colors right on their house;
- Free Exterior Home Design App– offered for download in Apple and Windows formats;
- Designer Collections Color Pairings– view the color combination recommendations for entry doors, windows, vinyl siding, stone veneer and metal roofing by design experts.