Top 10 Home Design Blogs
Home design means a lot more than filling your home with stuff. Consult these blogs for ideas and tips for creating a living space that expresses your (and your family's) personality.
A Dutch designer living in Malaysia comments on home design, somehow combining the warmth of Amsterdam with the clean lines of Scandinavian design and layout. A great site for ideas that approaches the level of an art installation all by itself.
Home design from a West Coast perspective, heavily illustrated with an emphasis on mid-century Modern and just plain Modern homes and furnishings.
Features complete photographic looks at homes from classic to contemporary and ranging to whatever continent catches the author's eye. Also will focus on a specific topic and cover all the different ways to, say, suspend pots above an island. Occasional breaks for whimsy, including photos of pets on furniture.
One of the most-referenced home design blogs, possibly because its sub-sites cover style hubs such as New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Focuses on getting the most from whatever urban square footage you call home.
Varied takes on home design and style, from how particular cities' personalities affect the homes there to creating stationery and invitations that reflect your home and attitude. Plentiful illustrations and occasional musings about life round out the package.
Singaporean interior-design firm KNQ Associates publish this online magazine following home-design trends worldwide. Ranges from case studies of remodels to tips on the latest new materials and designs for creating livable spaces.
Urban design and remodeling by a Hudson Valley, New York book designer with a tiny pied-à-terre in Manhattan. Also covers graphic, furniture and color themes with just the right dose of the author's own stories and personality.
Style with attitude--lots of attitude, beginning with the site's motto, "If decor is your porn, this is your blog." Covers the style aspects of homes, cookware, furnishings, you name it, with more descriptive writing and fewer illustrations than the typical home-design blog, with interesting detours about style mistakes and how to correct them.
Items for the home with a secondary focus on the home's surroundings (in this case, beautiful rural areas) by a couple who title posts like murder mysteries, as in "B is for Briglin" (pottery, that is).
The online arm of the definitive magazine for mid-century Modern homes, remodels and furnishings. Of course they'd like you to subscribe--but Atomic Ranch also offers plenty of free PDFs of the magazine's layouts to entice you, and plenty of resources to consult.
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