Urban Gardens, Inc. Featured on Houzz.com

DENVER - April 8, 2013 - PRLog -- Urban Gardens, Inc., a landscape design and consulting firm located in Denver, Colorado and owned and operated by Sarah Christian, is now featured on Houzz.com.  The new profile can be viewed at www.houzz.com/pro/sarah-christian/__public.   Called the "Wikipedia of interior and exterior design" by CNN, Houzz has the largest database of interior and exterior home design ideas on the internet, with over 1 million images of professionally designed homes and 12 million monthly users.  Photos can be browsed by style such as Mediterranean or Contemporary and geographic location or searched by design element such as pergola or sandstone patio and saved to virtual ideabooks.  It’s the equivalent of clipping design magazines to a scrapbook making ideas easier to search, save and share.  Houzz is also an online community with articles written by the design community, product recommendations, and a user forum.  Houzz.com is available as a free iPad app as well.  According to the New York Times it is “one of the rare nongaming apps with an average iTunes rating of five stars, after thousands of reviews, and the ratings are well deserved.”  

Photos of Urban Gardens’s featured projects are now being added to user’s ideabooks, questions are being asked about the projects, and the company is being searched as a local professional.  Additionally, when clients work with Urban Gardens, both the client and Urban Gardens may share their ideabooks with each other.  Sarah Christian, Owner of Urban Gardens, Inc. shared her enthusiasm about Houzz and said “Having the images to refer to helps clients articulate more clearly their likes and dislikes which results in a better end product.  A picture is worth a thousand words.”  Homeowners also seem to be enthusiastic about Houzz.  According to Meredith H., “The time flies while flipping through Houzz!  We’re building a new home and Houzz is making decisions and communication so much easier when I have a great picture to show.”  Sarah looks forward to seeing the results of the marketing potential that Houzz holds for bringing new customers to her website.  “It has the exciting potential to be an amazing source of new business.”    

About Urban Gardens, Inc.:          Urban Gardens provides landscape design and consulting services to residential clients whose projects range from historic renovations to new subdivisions with a blank slate.   Sarah Christian owns and operates Urban Gardens in the internationally recognized Stapleton Development in Denver, Colorado.  She received her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Colorado at Denver in 1995 and has worked in Colorado since that time.  She is licensed by the state of Colorado and is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.