Interior design can be just as much fun to read about as it is to do to your own home, and blogs give a great insight into trends, as well as a sneaky glimpse behind the closed doors of other people’s houses.
Here are five of our favourite interior design blogs, with the reasons why we think they stand out from the crowd.
1. Apartment Therapy – www.apartmenttherapy.com
The truly vast Apartment Therapy goes beyond the basics of interior design, with features on how to transform shop-bought furniture to suit your tastes.
Its scope makes this a one-stop shop for almost any design and DIY topic, which means it truly deserves its place on this list.
2. Habitually Chic – www.habituallychic.blogspot.co.uk
Habitually Chic is a blog in the purest sense, hosted on Google’s Blogger platform with an off-the-peg template, and filled with beautiful things.
It’s a shining example of how much you can achieve without really being an expert webmaster, and it perfectly conveys the personality of its author, Heather Clawson, and her passion for life’s simple luxuries.
3. My Friend’s House – www.myfriendshouse.co.uk
Many of us draw inspiration from the things we see in our friends’ homes, and My Friend’s House uses that as its basis.
Subtitled as “Things we like, from her house, and mine”, it’s an honest and open account of interior design from two good friends, and welcoming of readers’ feedback, which makes for a greater feeling of interactivity as you browse its latest posts.
4. Obsessilicious – www.obsessilicious.com
The ingeniously named Obsessilicious recently made the move from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress site, which already will resonate with any bloggers facing the same dilemma over hosting.
Luckily, its author Mark also copied across his five-year archive, so all the posts are safely restored in his blog’s new home (a kind of virtual equivalent of interior design, in one sense).
We love the timeliness of Obsessilicious – at New Year’s, for instance, there was a post about the best-looking wall calendars – which helps to make posts feel more relevant to the fast-moving world of design.
5. The Selby – www.theselby.com
Is The Selby an interior design blog? A portrait photography blog? A study of small businesses and the people who run them? It’s hard to pigeonhole this one, in spite of (or perhaps because of) its rather niche remit.
The eponymous Todd Selby is a photographer who takes unstructured, candid shots of creative individuals in their place of work – making it as much about the people as the interiors they inhabit.
Along the way though, his blog has become a valuable resource for glimpsing the spaces decorated by some of the world’s most creative individuals, making it one of the most accidental but engaging interior design blogs on the web.
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