My Favourite 15 Home and Interiors Blogs
People often think blogging is a lonely existence, but it’s a very connected world. One of the biggest perks for me has being getting to know many other bloggers with similar interests, and being part of a dynamic and stimulating blogging community. So today I’d like to introduce you to my favourite 15 Home and Interiors blogs, and tell you a little more about the lovely bloggers behind them.
Here goes, in alphabetical order:
The Ana Mum Diary is a top-ranking blog that includes topics such as home interiors, travel, design, food, beauty and fashion. Amanda Cottingham (the ‘A’ of Ana) is also the editor of the Britmums Home and Design Round-up, so she knows a thing or two about interiors, and her opinion and good taste can definitely be trusted!
Arianna’s Daily
Award-winning blog Arianna’s Daily is a mecca for style inspiration – in interiors, travel, fashion, food and general lifestyle. Its author Arianna Trapani is an interior designer, stylist and writer, who is also co-founder and co-editor in chief of Heart Home magazine, the UK’s first digital interiors/lifestyle magazine. An obsessive photographer and social media enthusiast, Arianna charms and captivates with her inspirational (and aspirational) posts.
A Beautiful Space
A Beautiful Space is just one of the many blogs by Becky Goddard-Hill, a published parenting author and multi award-winning blogger. A Beautiful Space is where Becky celebrates her love of home, gardens and interiors. A blogger for ten years, Becky’s other blogs include Thrifty Home, where upcycles and budget makeovers are key topics of interest, and her brand new blog Colour Lover that is all about – you’ve guessed it – her love of colour!
Dear Designer
Dear Designer covers current trends in home decor and features the best of new design, and has recently followed the total transformation of a country cottage by its interior designer author, Carole King. Carole is also the co-founder and joint editor in chief of Heart Home magazine and regularly writes for a variety of industry blogs. When not working you’ll find her walking her big dog or re-arranging her friends’ bookcases.
The Design Sheppard
The Design Sheppard is the online home of freelance writer and blogger Stacey Sheppard. Specialising in interior design, Stacey rounds up the very best products, projects, events and designers for The Design Sheppard. The blog covers both high-end design and more budget friendly high-street finds to help people recreate the latest design trends in their own homes. Living amidst the the beautiful rolling hills of Devon, Stacey has two little daughters under the age of three, which perhaps influences her current obsession with mattresses and sleep!
FifiMcGee
Brighton-based Fifi is on a mission to help couples decorate their homes so nice they’ll never want to leave the house. Her ‘just do it’ attitude shines through on FifMcGee, where she empowers the not-so-confident decorator by providing plenty of inspiration and practical know-how.
Fresh Design Blog
Founded in 2009, Fresh Design Blog, focuses on modern and contemporary home and garden ideas, from aspirational designer buys to affordable high street finds. Rachel Newcombe, the award-winning editor and writer behind the blog, also regularly writes homes, interiors and property features for a range of magazines, websites and blogs, including Dwell, eBay, Houzz, and Reclaim magazine, so she can be considered somewhat of an authority in the world of interiors!
Love Chic Living
Love Chic Living is a top UK blog focusing on style and design for a family home, and has won many awards for doing so. It is written by full-time blogger Jen Stanbrook who also writes for well-known high street brands, is a TV presenter, and mum to two girls aged 9 and 12. As well as her love for interiors, Jen has a passion for Pinterest, so do check out her boards if you get a chance.
Pippa Jameson Interiors
Pippa Jameson Interiors is the award-winning eponymous blog of art director, interiors consultant, designer and TV personality, Pippa Jameson. Interior designer on ITV’s ‘Bad Builders Bang to Rights’, Pippa has also been deputy interiors editor for BBC Good Homes magazine and interiors editor of Best magazine, and she blogs about her life as a stylist as well as advising on currents trends.
Renovation Bay-Bee
Home and family blog Renovation Bay-Bee charts author’s Stephanie challenge of renovating her 1960’s time warp and turning it into a attractive, practical and family friendly home to bring up her three children. Passionate about showing her readers how to create a beautiful house, but within a tight budget, Stephanie’s interiors posts are inspiring, and she also features posts on family life and travels.
A Residence
The focus of multi award-winning A Residence is on what makes a house a happy home, and so it covers family life, food, gardens, interiors, wellbeing, relationships and travel. It was founded by author Penny six years ago, who continues to write it since it was bought in 2014 by the online homestore Wayfair.co.uk. Also a travel writer, Penny is passionate about family homes, and seeks home inspiration from exploring the world and public spaces, often bringing back a trinket or two in her suitcase.
Old Fashioned Susie is a lifestyle and interiors blog with a sprinkling of fashion and travel, written by vintage maven and Instagram addict Susie Earlam. Susie’s background in Fine Art shows through in posts that follow her journey in renovating her Edwardian home, cleverly mixing timeless classics with vintage finds and quirky one offs. Susie lives South of Manchester with her husband and two daughters, and loves junk shops, gin cocktails, and using Pinterest to plan her next home renovations.
#tidylife was started four years ago by self-confessed homebird and interiors enthusiast, Antonia Ludden, with the aim to inspire people to improve their homes in affordable ways, and it certainly does! As well as covering a wide range of house, garden and lifestyle inspiration, on #tidylife, Antonia also collaborates with new and established homeware brands, creating engaging and original content for their blogs and websites. Antonia is a wife and mum to 3 boys and also lives near Manchester.
Well I Guess This Is Growing Up
Well I Guess This Is Growing Up was founded in 2011, by self-called “interiors geek” Karen, to follow the journey of the complete renovation of her first home in South Manchester, one DIY at a time. Now an award-winning home and lifestyle blog, Well I Guess This Is Growing Up continues to follow Karen’s interior design journey, and shows her knack of sourcing quirky family-friendly décor on a budget.
The White Approach showcases owner Karen Jones’s passion for all things white, whether renovating her all-white Art Deco home using innovative and cost-saving ideas, or sourcing beautiful products for her online store. Covering interior design, home style, DIY and Scandinavian style decorating, The White Approach is definitely on the chic side of shabby chic, and the place to go if you too love white styling.
These are my favourite blogs, which I hope you enjoy perusing. I also have a few ‘honorable mentions’, who deserve to be on the list if I hadn’t limited it to 15.They are: Boo and Maddie (by London blogger Lins Drabwell who is renovating her 1930s home), Making Spaces (the blog of the wonderfully creative interior designer Karen Knox), and Mummy of Boy Girl Twins and TheTwinkle Diaries – (two great family and lifestyle blogs by Jess and Caro respectively, who co-host a blog link up #HomeEtc where you can read linked-up posts on all things home- and interiors-related).
If you have any other interiors blog recommendations, do let me know in the comments below, I’m always looking for new inspiration.
Happy blog reading!
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on June 13, 2016 at 5:21 pm
A great round-up Molly. Thanks for including me. x
Thank you Carole, and you are welcome – the list would not have been complete without x
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on June 22, 2016 at 6:56 pm
Thanks for the mention! Lots and lots of my fave blogs in here too – including yours! LOVE the blogging community so much and everything it brings me xx Great round up xx
Thank you Jess! x
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on June 22, 2016 at 10:52 pm
So wonderful to be included in this list – thanks Molly 🙂
Karen x
Karen recently posted…Photo Diary: Clerkenwell Design Week
Most welcome my lovely x
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on June 24, 2016 at 11:19 am
Thanks so much for the mention Molly, I’m in great company! x
Hey, thanks for including me Molly. I wasn’t expecting that!!x
Most welcome Karen, love your blog! x
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on July 6, 2016 at 1:27 pm
Some great suggestions here, I’m gradually working my way through them all and am so inspired by all the ideas. Thank you!
Thanks Clare – glad you find the blogs inspiring! So many lovely ideas out there … x
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on July 11, 2016 at 2:19 pm
There are some brilliant suggestions in here and it’s so great to come across talented bloggers I hadn’t discovered yet. Thanks for sharing Molly 🙂
Lx