Contractor’s Corner: Design Centers Help Your Customers Bring Vision to Life
Posted: January 16, 2012 Filed under: Contractor's Corner, Outdoor Living, Pavers 7 Comments »Contractors play a pivotal role in helping homeowners bring their outdoor living visions to life. Each month, we’ll offer a Contractor’s Corner post to share tips to help our contractor partners offer even more to homeowners and their landscapes.
This month, we want to delve into design. Knowing exactly what your customer is looking for can be challenging, especially if the homeowners themselves don’t yet have a clear vision. A design center can be a source of inspiration to homeowners and help them realize their ideal outdoor living space.
What is a Design Center?
Design Centers are outdoor living idea showplaces where Belgard® products are staged to mimic real life scenes. Design Centers are a convenient resource to showcase Belgard premium pavers and wall products as well as design elements, including modular fireplaces, brick ovens and outdoor kitchens. Design Centers are the perfect place for your customers to be inspired and obtain ideas to create their own outdoor living retreat.
Directing your customers to a Belgard Design Center lets them see product in real life settings and showcases how different outdoor living elements can work together to create a beautiful, customizable space. Design centers are a place to get ideas, not product or materials.
Where are Belgard Design Centers?
Currently, there are eight Belgard Design Centers in Calif., Fla., Ga., Ind., Kan., Mass., Nev. and Tenn. To find a design center near you, visit: http://www.belgard.biz/design-centers.htm
Don’t see a design center where you live? Belgard will soon be adding more design center locations throughout the country – stay tuned!
Other Resources
The Belgard Design Studio helps you turn potential sales into actual sales by creating a 3-D virtual tour of homeowners’ dream outdoor living plans. Contractors and dealers can choose from four levels of service. The free service offers a number of existing design plans that already include 3-D animated fly-throughs, 2-D photorealistic screen shots, project dimensions, and Belgard product materials lists. Or, submit your existing plan and have your designs converted into 3-D images with animation. Custom services start at $99 and vary depending on the project. Visit www.BelgardDesignStudio.com for more information.
Thanks for giving us this marvelous post, giving the information about Belgard Design Centers.
Hi,
This is Nate, from Stonefish Inc. in Ormond beach Florida.
We have used your product in the past and my Partner and I are discussing opening a retail space. We have been serving Volusia county and surronding area for 10 plus years.
How would we go about setting up a design area with your product ? we build alot of fireplace, retaining walls and of course lots of brick pavers..
thanks and hope to here from you.
P.S. thanks for the facebook pics !!!!
Hi Nate, thanks for your comment and good luck on your new retail venture! We will have your local Belgard sales rep in Ormond Beach contact you about how to set up a Belgard design center.
Just back from IBSI and wondered about the bio net root excluder used on the “Gen” houses?
Hi John, thanks for your comment. The root excluder you’re referring to isn’t a Belgard product. It’s actually from Typar which was a sponsor of the Builder Concept home as well. Visit the product page at http://www.builderconcepthome2012.com/virtual-tour/generation-b/#/view/front-elevation/0/product/fiberwebtypar-3/ for more information.
Please send info available about fire pits.
Thanks,
B. Pevoto
Hi Barbara, thanks for your interest in Belgard. We will be sending you a complimentary Idea Book and have a local sales rep contact you.