Boston Design Center
We visited the Boston Design Center on Friday. The Boston Design Center (BDC) is a huge building in South Boston that houses over 75 showrooms for a variety of building and design resources. There are tile showrooms, furniture showrooms, kitchen showrooms, office furniture showrooms, and even a sports marketing agency. It’s really an awesome place…if you can get in.
Conceptually, we LOVE the concept. Get all these awesome products and design showcases under one roof and let the public have at it. You can browse a variety of products and design styles under one roof. It’s a great place, except the public is very rarely allowed to visit. We do not love this. If you’re a member of the public, the only way to get in is to be accompanied by someone affiliated with the BDC, work with a designer, or sign up for an expensive membership. This doesn’t work for most folks. In our experience, the majority of people working on their homes do not work with designers. If you’re an industry professional, you can get it in, but you need to have already established three accounts at the design center. Clearly this method has been successful, as there are similar design centers in most major cities and the target audience for the BDC is obviously designers and architects. We just wish there was a way to expose the public to these amazing showrooms more easily.
What we’re doing with the bGreen Mobile Showroom certainly borrows from the concepts put forth by the design centers. We’re getting a variety of products under one roof. Flooring, cabinetry, lighting, etc. Only in our case, we want the public to see it just as much as we want design professionals to see it. Read more about the bGreen Mobile Showroom here.
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