Method and system of marketing and mass producing customized kitchen furniture

Abstract

A system of marketing and mass producing customized domestic furniture includes a graphic customizing center and a service center. The graphic customizing center has an electronic database which contains a plurality of domestic floor plans and a plurality of furniture kits, wherein each of the domestic floor plans, which is simulated from a domestic environment to imitate the domestic furniture therein, has a plurality of customized areas preset on the domestic furniture to be customized for generating a plurality of custom made virtual domestic environments. The service center itemizes the furniture kits selected from the virtual domestic environments to mass-order the furniture kits for reducing a cost of the furniture kit in quantity manner.

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CROSS REFERENCE OF RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This is a divisional application that claims the benefit of priority under 35U.S.C. §119 to a non-provisional application, application Ser. No. 11 / 147,798, filed Jun. 7, 2005.BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION[0002]1. Field of Invention[0003]The present invention relates to domestic furniture, and more particularly to a customized domestic furniture system and a method thereof which enable a user to preview a virtual domestic design combined by an electronic floor plan and a selected furniture kit.[0004]2. Description of Related Arts[0005]During a typical furniture selection process, the customers usually need to preview a combination of different kinds of furniture to assess whether a particular combination of different furniture well fit to their home environment.[0006]Conventionally, there exist two methods of doing that. First, retailers of furniture may provide the relevant customers with a stack of catalogues showing different combi...

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Benefits of technology

"The present invention provides a customized domestic furniture system and method that allows users to preview different furniture combinations in a virtual environment, making it easier to select the most desirable combination of furniture. The system includes a plurality of furniture kits and electronic floor plans that can be freely selected by the user to customize the furniture design of their own domestic environment. The selected electronic floor plan accurately simulates the user's own domestic environment, allowing for the realistic and visually reflective representation of different furniture combinations. The system also eliminates the need for furniture catalogues or materials samples, increasing efficiency and reducing costs. The invention also provides a method for mass-producing and marketing customized domestic furniture, allowing for the efficient and reliable information of furniture order for builders."

Problems solved by technology

The problem with this conventional practice is that the environment demonstrated in the catalogue simply does not match with the customers' domestic environment.

As a result, the overall effect of a particular combination of furniture may not duplicate in the customer's home in that each combination of furniture would have different aesthetic appeal in different environments.

Another problem with this conventional practice is that catalogue only displays rather limited number of combinations regarding the domestic furniture so that the customer may not be able to see his / her desirable combination of furniture.

Obviously, the problem of this practice is that the customers are really hard to extrapolate from the materials samples to form a whole picture of the combination of the relevant furniture.

This may not be possible for all furniture retailers.

The process can be extremely cumbersome: each of the purchasers of the apartments have to be shown a large number of catalogues and then chooses their favorite combination of furniture.

As a result, the process can be very inefficient and ineffective.

Should there are some mistakes in the data collection procedures or inconsistencies between what are shown on the catalogues and the actual appearance of the combination of furniture, the builders may then be involved in complicated disputes and this may even give rise to legal actions brought by the individual purchasers.

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