Virtual Exterior Design with Dzinly

Virtual Exterior Design with Dzinly

This is such a timely episode because, on a previous episode, we chatted about how hard exterior updates are to visualize. We've had a landscape architect come on the show and interior designers but have always felt like there was a major lack of access to help for exterior updates.

A representative of Dzinly contacted me to see if I was interested in doing an interview with their founder for the show. I thought the idea of Dzinly was great but thought you would be more interested in me walking through the Dzinly process in order to review it for you. So, that's what I'm doing. Just to be super honest and forthcoming, I was gifted the experience that Dzinly gives but I'm not getting paid for this review. They have no idea what I'm going to say. This is just my honest review, so here we go!

The Process of Using Dzinly

• Upload a photo of your house (I chose to upload two)
• Specify what types of changes you would be interested in making and/or what you aren't willing to change
• Upload a few inspiration images and share what you love about each of them (my inspiration images all had a common theme - cream houses with metal windows)
• In the comment section, be as specific as you can. I specified that I was willing to paint my brick and change the siding. I wasn't willing to change the roof, front doors or exterior lights. Other than that, I was open to shutters or no shutters.

At this point, Dzinly had three designers create palettes that they thought would work for my house. I believe, at this point, it was just palettes and not a house render that gave me options such as brick colors, siding changes, etc. I was able to choose which palette I liked the best and submitted that palette to be rendered.

Two days later, I was able to log in and see those designs on my actual house. On the website, you also have a few toggle buttons that allow you to toggle between an option or two that might look better. For example, on my design, I was able to toggle between cream brick and a whitewashed brick. I was also able to toggle between black shutters, gray shutters and wood shutters.

One thing to note, is that each of these rendering options comes with the actual product detail. For example, when I see the cream brick, it's giving me the actual paint color and then actual window brand and type. That takes out the guess work for making the rendering come to life. You know exactly how to replicate the rendering from the product sources.

I can color change in Photoshop and do small mockups but this was so much more than that. The rendering is really neat and it's pretty amazing to toggle between a few options to see what my house could actually look like. Plus, having actual colors and brand names is huge!