Looking for blogs dedicated to fresh finds, inspiring ideas, and a hearty supply of interior design from all over the world?
Here are the top ten best interior design bloggers, according to White Horse Digital's Ruth Hoskins.
1. Abigail Ahern
Interior designer and retailer Abigail Ahern has had heaps of praise bestowed on her; “the woman rocking the world of interiors” and “style spotter extraordinaire’”by The Times. Abigail owns one of the coolest interior design shops in the UK – Atelier Abigail Ahern. She is also the author of A Girl’s Guide to Decorating and has an A-list celebrity clientele, from Robbie Williams to Robert Downey Junior. Abigail’s style is ultra-luxe and fuses vintage with contemporary in an oh-so glamorous way. Her blog does not disappoint, she shares daily insights including recipes, style tips, cool product finds and trade.
We love: Abigail’s blog really does give an authentic insight into the creative mind of a leading designer. Plus the photography is lush – sultry, opulent and seriously lustworthy.
2. Apartment Therapy
The Guardian says; “ordinary readers showing off their extraordinary homes…it’s hard not to become addicted.” This blog/forum is huge, with fresh content posted literally all the time. Somehow it still manages to feel like a community. The main part of the blog is the House Tours, giving an inside peek into hipsters’ homes around the world – truly lust-inspiring and indulges in our voyeuristic dreams. It’s super visual with fun, snack size videos like this one – One minute tip: How to carve a turkey .
We love: The utterly intuitive navigation that invites you to dip in to daily tips and explore the content.
3. decor8
Founded by American award-winning and best selling author and journalist Holly Becker – a serious influencer in the blogging community. decor8 is a blog dedicated to ‘fresh finds, inspiring interiors & ideas for creative living’ and is beautifully designed. The site gets over one million page views per month, 60,000 followers on on Twitter,182,000 followers on Pinterest, 63,000 followers on Facebook and 28,000 following her on Instagram.
We love: The very personal way in which Holly writes makes this site read like a novel – it’s a great example of storytelling.
4. Bright Bazaar
Will Taylor is a self-proclaimed ‘lover of hues’ and his vibrant blog is a breath of fresh air and pays homage to his colour fascinations. A well-known home interiors journalist, ex-Habitat visual merchandiser and blogger since 2009, Bright Bazaar has an incredibly loyal following. His daily posts are as fun as his bright coloured images. His colour cocktails are cute moodboards packed with product suggestions.
We love: The ten things I learned this weekend category – where Will documents all the things that have inspired him , from out and about photographs, to product picks and inviting Cafes and shops. This is much more than an interiors blog.
5. Bodie & Fou
Perfect Sunday morning iPad fodder, the Bodie & Fou blog is attached to the award-winning online concept store. It was voted in the Top 20 Interiors blogs by Vogue magazine (UK) and is just gorgeous. Started by Karine Candice and her sister, the French pair write about their inspiration, creative interior tips and create luxurious and want-to-buy-now visual guides to their favourite products.
We love: Boudie + Fou’s blog has some of the most beautiful photographs we have seen, curated perfectly to complement the tone of the blog and store.
6. Habitually Chic
Heather Clawson is a decorator, author and photographer based in New York City. Her blog is unashamedly glamorous and gives a glimpse into an Uptown Manhattan life that Gossip Girlmade us all want to be part of. Her posts are visually inspiring and artfully put together. This recent post Bergdorf Goodman Holiday’s on Ice gives us an insider scoop on what’s happening in NYC right now.
We love: Even though her style is uber-glam, Heather’s style is effortlessly easy-going. No haughty tone here, just the feeling that she is bringing us into her high-shine world.
7. Design*Sponge
Design*Sponge is a legendary design blog run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. Launched way back in August 2004, the site updates between 6-8 times per day and was declared a “Martha Stewart Living for the Millennials” by the New York Times. We have long followed this lifestyle blog that serves up a hearty supply of design, craft, product and recipe ideas – creating the ultimate style bible. Their following is pretty awesome too. Design*Sponge currently has 75,000 daily readers on the main site, over 127,000+ RSS readers, 405,000+ Twitter followers and 70,000+Facebook followers.
We love: Easy to navigate and pick out the latest content, we love the design of this blog. It goes against the standard white minimalist look, and is instantly recognisable by it’s fun design.
8. The Selby
..is in your place. Tom Selby is a photographer, director, author and illustrator. The Selby offers an inside view of Tom’s creative, and often well-known friends in their personal spaces. The site quickly grew to daily visitors of over 100,000 a day and spun into campaigns and collaborations with Louis Vuitton, American Express, FENDI and more.
We love: Tom’s portraits not only show off a little black book of friends to die for, but are set in super hipster locations around the world – if this was reality Tv, we would watch it all day long.
9. Lobster and Swan
Sussex-coast living Jeska’s blog Lobster & Swan is a vision of heaven to vintage-lovers. Whimsical and inspired by ancient Britain, bunting and tea parties, the content is varied and creative but always beautiful. Her ever-changing vintage-style home features heavily. She posts her thrift shop finds, home made craft projects (also available through her Etsy store) and more. A great read on a rainy day that can take her readers into a world of sunshine and colour.
We love: The patterns, textures and images create a real vision of a vintage lovers paradise.
10. Door Sixteen
A cute blog from Brooklyn & The Hudson Valley, Door Sixteen is a personal tale of renovating a Victorian House in New York Stats. It’s an inviting story, as Anna shares the small details of her daily life, but makes them sound really interesting – she posts her weekend to-do lists, and music videos she has unearthed. All of this combines with beautiful imagery to create a real-life and extremely readable journal.
We love: The daily detail of Anna’s life is pretty addictive.
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