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Altogether Home Launches New Website
August 16,
2012 by in UnCategorized 
By Home Furnishings Business in Internet on August 17, 2012
Online home furnishings and interior design resource Altogether Home has launched an all-new Web site.
The re-branded site is easier to use than ever before, designed to enhance the browsing and buying experience, while providing visitors with stylish inspiration for their own home designs.
Altogether Home, based in New York, is a furniture and accessories retailer that helps people decorate with confidence by offering a catalog of world-class products along with inspiration and advice for real-world interior design. Trendsetter and design expert Marc Thee is collaborating with a team of expert interior designers to curate and design high-quality furniture and accessories with real-world style.
Thee is the founder of Marc-Michaels Interior Design and has more than 25 years of experience in high-end interior decoration. In 2012, Interior Design magazine named Marc-Michaels the Number 1 residential design firm in the United States. Soon, Altogether Home will be the exclusive retailer for the Marc Thee Home Collection, available to the public through the new Altogether Home online store beginning in Fall 2012.
The revitalized Altogether Home website has two new browsing formats: Visitors can now shop for stylish furniture either "By Room" or "By Category. The Shop By Room feature seamlessly assembles all of the relevant furniture and home décor items that are appropriate for the users room of choice: living room, dining room, bedroom, bathroom, or home office. Alternatively, the Shop by Category feature brings related items together under the following banners: furniture, lighting, dining and entertaining, bed & bath, home collections, home décor, and sale items. With either function, every selection is fully sortable and accompanied by a helpful sidebar to facilitate more specific shopping.
Enhanced product detail screens present every item in the Altogether Home store with greater depth of detail. Home furniture shoppers will easily find the dimensions, materials, finish types, and prices for all products, which are now accompanied by brand-new descriptions that reveal how each piece can accentuate various styles of interior home design. All of the product images have been increased in size and also feature new zoom functionality. Many are accompanied by a gallery of alternate images as well.
A reader-friendly interior design inspiration blog, "Haven," is written by experts in interior design such as Marc Thee and style guru, Andrea Hurt. An all-purpose lifestyle blog, Haven goes far beyond home furnishings, incorporating fashion, food and travel. Professional decorators share their perspective on how interior design furniture can rejuvenate anyones home living. Unlike typical retail blogs, Altogether Home supplies fresh, new content all the time - the kind that readers will want to revisit daily for fresh inspiration.
The all-new Haven portal at AltogetherHome.com also allows any visitor to ask for free interior design advice about their own room designs. The Haven style team responds promptly and privately to every question submitted, and there is no cost or purchase obligation.
The upgraded online store also provides an easier, more user-friendly transaction from beginning to end. Every customer now has access to a user-specific account management system, which allows shoppers to track their orders, store multiple addresses, contact customer service, and much more. The new site is also equipped with the latest technology for making secured payments.
Altogether Home and the Haven team have lined up a more new content for the remainder of 2012 and beyond. In-depth "How-To Guides" will be available for free download on a regular basis, guiding readers toward more fabulous home living. Additionally, Haven will present before and after galleries and a brand-new feature called One Room, Three Ways," showcasing the creative versatility inherent in interior design. Altogether Home is also the exclusive provider of the Marc Thee Home Collection, which will be available beginning in Fall 2012.
We started Altogether Home because were passionate about style, design and helping people decorate with confidence, says Hurt. This newly rebranded website lets us inspire our visitors with stunning interior design inspiration and furnishings, and we get to do that in a truly personal way. That means a lot to me and to all of us here at Altogether Home.