Hatch My House Re-design

In January, Hatch My House will greet the new year with a new design. We’re simply ecstatic to release our new product to all of you.

New Team

It’s been a long process to get to here. A little more than a year ago, Robert Frank, professional illustrator, painter and Academy of Art teacher professor, joined the HMH team. Using custom styles and patterns in Photoshop, he created a variety of new houses, interiors and settings for users to design their dream home.  In August, Paul Martinelli, Co-Founder and former CTO of Intraware, Inc., joined the team to re-build the site in its entirely. He’s made HMH into a real machine that is not only updated with the latest technologies, but scalable and bug-free.

New Illustrations

We know users will be excited about our new houses, interiors and settings. Currently, we have a Craftsman style home and a Brownstone. We’ll be updating both of these and adding a Victorian, a Modern (by popular demand!), a Tuscan and a Cottage.

These six homes can be placed in one of five settings: suburb, country, beach, mountain and city. For the city setting, users can choose a generic city, San Francisco or New York.

New Features

The new site will also include some added functionality. Users have often requested that they be able to set their own prices for items in their houses. Not only will our new site enable recipients to select a low, mid-range, or high price level, but it will allow gift givers to change any price of any item in the house! This means that if Aunt Betty desperately wants to buy you a flowerbox, but wants to give more than $25.00, she can do so!

We can’t wait to show off our new site in January. If you have any questions, comments, or feature requests about the re-design, please contact us. We’re eager to hear from you!