How many of you added sprucing up the home to your 2011 to-do list? Maybe you want to start out with a whole new look, or just add a little something new to your home scene. Even if you don't have the budget or energy to go for an all-out re-design, just a new vase or fresh pillows can change a room and make it seem like new (or new-ish, at the very least). Here are five of our fave design blogs to inspire you.
The Material Girls blog is a great collection of various design styles for inspiration coming from women in five different cities across the U.S. Whether you are looking for a classic rococoish royal family look or modern or rustic, the Material Girls have something you'll like.
Erika Almeida is an Ecuadorian born NYC designer with an amazing eye for great design. She features unusual items with mostly modern inspiration, and with great combinations of industrial and natural features. Love her design style!
Design Sponge has been inspiring people with great, practical design since 2004. Run by Grace Bonney - contributing editor for Domino Mag and Craft Mag as well as "a freelancer with top publications like House and Garden, New York Home, Food and Wine, In Style" and more - Design Sponge has a finger on what's hot not only in home decor but in clothing and accessory design as well.
If you're an apartment dweller and haven't checked out Apartment Therapy, do so at once! This blog is chock full of great ideas for using space wisely and beautifully, because living in a small space doesn't have to equal having crap all over the place. Their goal is "To connect people to the resources they need to improve their homes, while reducing their reliance on stuff." Beautiful.
Chic Tip blog is a great resource for ideas on residential as well as commercial interior design. The focus is on modern and mid-century style, and there are some super cool ideas passed around here. This LED carpet is so funky and amazing...on my "someday" list.
Just for fun, check out the Unhappy Hipsters blog, which makes fun of all the all-too-beautifully-photographed modern home mags...as much as we appreciate the difference beauty makes in our lives, you gotta laugh at it, too:
Making fun of modern design blogs like Dwell, Unhappy Hipsters pairs pretentious photography with hilarious quips like, "They'd never forgive their parents for confining them to that midwestern cornfield--who cares if the horizon so perfectly echoed the multiple rooflines."
Here's to a beautifully designed New Year!
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