Method for directed design

A method for generating a directed design for a physical space comprising the steps of:

• a. maintaining a main computer having a design product database, wherein the main computer (i) exchanges data with a remote computer;
• (ii) exchanges data with a design center computer, operable by a human design plan creator;
• (iii) exchanges data with an interactive kiosk, operable by a design plan user;
• and (iv) wherein the design product database references a specific, individually identifiable, commercially available design product by selectable product characteristics;
• b. taking two or more photographs of the physical space from different angles to capture digital images of the physical space, each of the captured digital images having digitally encoded signals representing an image of the physical space;
• c. storing the digitally encoded signals in an imaging computer storage medium;
• d. without altering the digital images, transmitting the stored digitally encoded signals to the design center computer;
• e. designing by non-automated means by the human design creator, an interior design plan using the transmitted digitally encoded signals, wherein the human design creator (i) selects at least one design product from the design product database, (ii) adds the selected design product to the rendering on the main computer so as to produce at least one three-dimensional data set rendering on the main computer displaying the selected design product as part of the rendering;
• f. storing the design plan in a design computer storage medium;
• g. transmitting the stored design plan to the main computer;
• h. providing for remote computer communication link access to the stored design plan;
• i. exchanging data between the main computer and an electronically linked interactive kiosk, wherein the design plan user can establish and access a design plan user account for maintaining and managing the design plan and the digitally encoded signals;
• j. displaying the design plan on a virtual reality device;
• and
• k. wearing the virtual reality device;
• directing a camera toward the physical space for taking the two or more photographs of the physical space;
• placing a ruler within a field of view of the camera;
• taking a first photograph of the physical space with the ruler being visible within the first photograph;
• changing the angle at which the camera is directed toward the physical space and taking a second photograph of the physical space, wherein the ruler is visible within the second photograph.