Havenly vs Modsy or others

[Violet]

My living room needs serious help regarding furniture placement, furniture selection, and decorating. I've read reviews for Havenly & Modsy and I'd be good with using one service but I don't know which one is better. Anyone have any insight?


Or should I post my living room here first and let you all tell me what to do? 

[k3am]

I used Modsy a few years ago. I'd point you to the thread here, but since all the pics had been posted using tinypic, it's pretty useless now. (ETA: Actually, some of the stuff was uploaded differently, so you can at least see what a layout from the looks like and the final outcome pandce.proboards.com/thread/603960/modsy-living-room-pic-heavy)

We have a somewhat awkward shaped living room and no true idea of what our style is, so it was helpful to see their layout suggestions, but not helpful to see their item suggestions. That being said, I loved seeing everything visually laid out before purchasing things and seeing how it worked together. We bought exactly zero of the items they suggested, but instead swapped in items we liked. I ended up buying somethings outside of Modsy, but several of them through Modsy, since they had really good discounts a the time.

We used it again for our office/guestroom when we were trying to figure out what size bed to get. We paid $20 I think for that one? Totally worth it - we'd been convinced a full sized bed would fit, and it definitely wouldn't have.

[dr.girlfriend]

I had a bad experience with Modsy. They ended up giving me my money back, but it was a total waste of time. They delayed and delayed with making the custom model (it was an odd-shaped room and I paid extra to get a custom sofa design so I could see how the extra-long sofa would fit in the space), shuttled me from designer to designer as people apparently kept leaving with no communication regarding what I'd previously requested, gave me a design that was pretty much the exact opposite of my taste (some peach nightmare). I had to get stuff ordered and couldn't wait for them to get their act together. I had a lot of trouble switching out items in their design, and half the time the site wouldn't even load. Even basic stuff like seeing the room with an 8x10 rug versus a 9x12 rug I couldn't get to work. IDK that another place will be better but just my experience.

I checked my email just to make sure it was modsy, and here was one of my emails to them near the end:

I'm not sure what to say. I waited weeks for the design with my custom sofa, and this design doesn't have the custom sofa. I expressed clearly to the prior designer that the main thing I was looking for in the room was ideas for a colorful rug, and then expressed to you that I was disappointed that the rugs in my first two designs were not colorful. This design has a basically white rug that I can't even seem to switch out on my own. I know I liked a few items because I was hoping to get recommendations that were more appropriate to my tastes, but I don't think that piling them in a room when they don't really coordinate is the key to a good design. I was considering going with landscape art or graphic art, but having both definitely is not working.

[k3am]

dr.girlfriend, I remember telling them constantly that I have kids, but that this was a room for adults. I basically didn't want them putting in white rugs and breakable glass tables. They could NOT get away from the idea of putting in a kids corner, art table, toy storage, etc. I ended swapping all of that stuff out.

And their website was super glitchy - changing anything out was a PITA. Luckily I did it mostly at work during our slow time of year...

[memenee]

I would definitely start by posting here!

[Mrs.flang]

I used modsy and had fun playing around with it. I didn’t actually buy any of the recommended furniture but I found more affordable options and just sort of used it for inspiration. I did multiple rooms and I’m glad I did because it gave me a weird sense of confidence and helped me feel “finished”.

I used discount codes and I think it was only around $40-50, but I checked back the other day and the cheapest package is now $159, which I don’t think is worth it.

[dr.girlfriend]

Yeah, I should add that for better or worse this was almost exactly a year ago, so hopefully their website at least is more functional.

[icedcoffee]

I think isabel used one. I want to use one in a few years when we refresh our family room!

[deadwing]

I worked with an interior designer from a local furniture store a few years ago. The service isn't well advertised (I stumbled onto it by pure chance), but I had a great experience with it. It was free as long as I spent at least $3k, which isn't hard to do. The designer came to my house, took measurements, got a feel for my style. Then he sent me drawings with recommendations for layout, including reusing some pieces I already had. After that, I met him in the store and we picked out furniture and fabrics. It was a ton of fun and I love the result. I wouldn't have been bold enough to make some of the choices I made without his help. I'm not sure I would go this route during COVID, but I would do it again when being in close proximity to people is safer. I wouldn't be surprised if many furniture stores have this kind of service, but don't widely advertise it.

[isabel]

Dec 1, 2020 7:31:39 GMT -5 icedcoffee said:

I think isabel used one. I want to use one in a few years when we refresh our family room!

Yep. I used Havenly and had a good experience. The thing she was most helpful with was layout and giving me ideas of what pieces worked well together. I would use them again.

You can go find my before/after pictures if you search my post history. I posted not that long ago.