For 2021, you are not allowed to edit the home other than furnishings & Interior Finishes. No major manipulations of the inside or outside as the home is already built.
The canvas is yours, but remember part of the judges criteria is if you listened to the client. Part of these solutions will be the give & take of new elements vs. existing elements just like real world projects. Design with purpose!
We are expecting to receive well over 60 entries this year. This doesn't mean that it should discourage you to enter. If you feel overwhelmed, team up and come up with a project for a group a 4 or less. Our goal is that everyone can put together a solution and come to our class to compare and contrast how the finalists solved design vs. your own solution. Remember the top 8 designers will be ranked and put into print so even if you are not a finalist, you may have a good shot and being named one of the top designers in the country!
Go to the forum below and ask away. We will do our best to respond quickly and it could be a question that others have so do not be shy.
Although the name of the project is "The Million Dollar Pool Design Challenge", you are welcome to exceed $1 million dollars with the design as there will be no need to prepare costs. Keep in mind that the judges will be judging on practicality and if the construction could actually be achieved in a real life situation. Keep it somewhat reasonable.
Your panoramas look fantastic on your site. Really great work! I'm looking forward to seeing what you can come up with for the challenge and hopefully you can come out of this with $5000 in hand.
Thank you! Did you get to see the 360° tours on the home page?
I just hope I have enough time to actually enter! We are slammed this summer, which is great, and this contest timeline may be difficult for us to achieve due to the volume of work we have in the summer.
The 360 tours were what I was referring to with the panoramas comment. They are great and I have not seen pool studio done like that before so well done. Regarding the timeline, unfortunately there were several legalities we had to get through this first year before we could mass distribute the program. We hope to give a timeline of 90 days or so in the future contests now that all of that is behind us.
The timeline is O.K. We are just busy. Actually if you think about it, how often do you get 30 days to complete a design concept for a real world customer? I usually have a deadline under 2 weeks, so a month really isn't bad. I really appreciate what you are trying to do and look forward to seeing all the ideas from so many different designers for the same project. It should prove very interesting!
Excited for another try at it this year! I hope I have time to complete the design, we are busy with work this year!