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Observation about Houzz photos

5 years ago

I finally wrote a check and signed off on the design and cabinet selection for my kitchen renovation last week. I went to my Kitchen Idea Book, and pared it down from 1297 to 96. Room to grow again! I don’t know if that’s a lot, but when I first joined Houzz, there were about 100,000 photos available TOTAL, and now there are an additional 17 million. I’ve been planning for nearly a decade! But now that Houzz has been around for a while, I realize that as I’m looking at photos, they are undated, and many can be a decade old, at least, and I don’t seem to be able to tell other than getting a sense from comments. It would be helpful to know how current the photos are. Are they still relevant? Are inspiration photos showing dated ideas and products? It’s no longer where you can go to see what is fresh, current, new - if you don’t know which decade it’s from. Have I just been here too long?

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Emily H
5 years ago
Hi Janet,

You've been here a long time! That is fantastic!

It's true that the photos are not dated, so it can be tricky to determine when they were uploaded unless the professional has put a date on the project they belong to or noted it in the photo description.

One way you can make sure you are looking at newer photos, however, is to choose the option for Newly Featured photos when you go to the Photos page on Houzz. See image below. Those photos will be sorted from most recent to oldest. Hope that helps!
Janet
Original Author
5 years ago
I haven’t used that filter, I’ll try that. Thanks!
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H202
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I always assume Houzz doesn't date the photos because if they did, it would "date" much of their content. If web visitors were aware that 90% of the photos they were looking at were more than a year old, it would probably be a turnoff, no? We subconsciously know that some of the content is old, but it might be jarring to have it put in your face.
Janet
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I’m sure! I don’t need to see just this minutes photos, if something goes back 2 or 3 years, for me that’s current enough. But now a decade has gone by and it is less useful. I still know what attracts my eye, new or not, but if someone really needs to know what’s current, it can be hard to tell. The Newly Featured filter should help, but I think they should be dated for relevancy.
chispa
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Maybe if they dated them people would see that the white cabinet, gray counter and gray paint look has been around for about 10 years now! Maybe not so much dated, but certainly overused, now even available at Home Depot and not suitable for every single house type.

What is annoying is doing a search and as you go through the hundreds of pages the same darned photo (or two) shows up on EVERY SINGLE PAGE. I think those are paid placements, but seeing the same photo on every page of a search is a bit much.

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