5 Things You Didn't Know About: mydeco.com

Set up my Brent Hoberman of Lastminute.com fame, mydeco.com lets you shop for furniture and accessories online, find inspiration for home decoration projects and design your ideal home via unique 3D tools. It also hosts one of the web's largest interiors communities. Here are just a few things you might not have known about it...

1) Creative would-be designers have... designed over 420,000 rooms in 3D using the mydeco free 3D room planner. That's the equivalent to a 3D city the size of Oxford or 2,000 copies of your favourite interiors magazine.

2) The most popular type of room to re-design or shop for... on mydeco.com are living rooms followed by Bedrooms and Kitchens. Bottom of the list is Home Office - maybe we're not keen to work from home!

3) The residents of Manchester are... some of the most proud in Britain, with 47% of them visiting mydeco.com to redesign or shop for their homes in the past six months - that's compared to just 16% of Birmingham residents. Are we more house proud up North?

4) mydeco.com has the web's largest... community of interior design experts with over 230,000 registered members ready and waiting to solve your home dilemmas. Post a question into the free Forums, and mydeco designers might even design a 3D room for you, or make a moodboard to give you style ideas.

5) Wallpaper is consistently the most... searched-for product on mydeco.com, and one of the most popular. There are 25,899 different types of wallpaper available on the website, including leather wallpaper, flocked wallpaper - and some of the most popular types over the past few seasons; striped and metallic wallpaper!

13th October 2011