As if HGTV has not sucked up enough of my time with their non-stop stream of DIY and renovation tv shows, their website has a new feature in beta that I could seriously get addicted to. It’s called “Rate My Space”.
Basically, you upload photos of a room in your house (or your garden, yard, etc) and the community rates it. Just a voyeur? Just rate everyone’s stuff. It’s a “Hot or Not” for the house crowd.
You not only get to rate the spaces, you also get to leave feedback. And the photos and posts can be tagged, making searches that much more useful. If you’re daring, you can create an account and let people rate your own personal blood, sweat, and tears. I threw our master bathroom up there to see how it went, and so far it’s rated a 3.5 out of 5. Not bad – the comments are helpful (mostly) and it’s nice to see what people outside our little blog world think of things. You can see all of the feedback here.
My one complaint is that it’s majorly slow. But they don’t call it “beta” for nothing – hopefully the speed issue will be worked out soon.
Check it out – I know you all need one more internet time-waster: Rate My Space
Comments, Thoughts, and Feedback
And thus begins a wasted Saturday morning/afternoon. =D I’m going to blame you when come 1pm, I’m still sitting here in my bathrobe, a cold cup of coffee next to me.
That’s a great site and you’re right, it’s slower than molasses in January.
Anticipation, anticipaaation is making me wait!!!!
But it’s worth the wait I have spent so many hours surfing the net looking for a good place to find lots and lots of pictures by room.
not so slow for me ive got sloooow dialup. any what i saw looked very interesting but gosh some of the comments were pretty harsh !!! anyway people do what they like thats why decorating is such a form of expression also the pics are really small you really dont get the same effect as being in the room.
Don’t they do something like that at apartmenttherapy.com, too? Occasionally at least. So there’s another source for voyeurism. :)
I CANT WAIT TO SHOW MY PHOTO OF KITCHEN I,VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOREVER AND NEED SOME ADVICE.
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