Zillow recently added a feature that allows you to compare and vote for the bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchens, etc. that you like best.

The company calls them duels and pitches them as a means of finding design ideas. There are 10 matchups in each of the duels. You could easily soak way too much time into sorting through pics that vary largely in attractiveness and appeal. Some of the pictures don't give enough detail; others are so good you can't believe homes are really that nice. Others are so blah it's a toss up. But I did particularly like a bathroom in a Medina home selling for somewhere north of $3 million.

A Zillow spokeswoman said the pictures come from the homes featured on the site, which include about 10 million photos.

When you're done voting, you see where the room you ended up with falls in the overall ranking. A bedroom I selected that had doors opening to a wooded balcony was No. 60 -- and in a San Francisco home selling for $4.95 million. (There's no direct link to the duel portion of the site, but if you go to the main page you can find it under "See design ideas on Dueling Digs.")

In other Zillow news, the real estate site this week is launching a new mortgage feature allowing customers to request customized loan quotes by filling out a form, according to a news release from the Seattle company. It said there's no limit on the number of quotes you can get and the quotes do not require personal info such as name, address or Social Security number. Zillow estimates tax and insurance costs and a borrower's identity is revealed, the release said, when contact is initiated by a borrower.