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Hey Everyone, I'm going to include a list of great blogs that I recommend this afternoon, but I wanted to quickly share with you this amazing resource: our HOMIES competition from the past two years, with reader votes for best design blogs around the world.
>> The Homies 2009 and >> 2010
Assignment:
Today is aspirational. It's meant to get you thinking not about your home as it is now, but how you would LIKE it to be. This is such an important part of the process of making the perfect home because you can't set off on a journey until you know where you'd like to go.
And again, our 20 minutes today is meant to be a start, not a finish. When you start looking at images and choosing those that you like or love, you begin to make your own vision and learn from others. Enjoy this day.
I also promised a survey, so please share with us your favorite shelter porn mags below. I'll round them up and list them fully in our post tomorrow.
• What Is Your Go To Foreign Shelter Magazine? w. 50 comments
• Good Questions: A Satisfying Shelter Magazine? w. 109 comments
• Who's Your Fave? with 42 comments from 2006 (how much has changed!)
Outtakes
Here's a little extra piece that didn't make the final cut in which I mention some other good book and web sources.
Some Favorite Sites For Great Interior Images
• Living Etc photo galleries
• Emma's Blogg from Scandinavia
• The Style Files
• The New York Times House & Home Section
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• New York Homes
• Chicago Homes
• Boston Homes
• DC Homes
• Los Angeles Homes
• Green Home Tours on Re-Nest
• Kids' Room Tours on Ohdeedoh
• Tech Tours on Unplggd
• How To Create Your Own Digital Art
• 5 Designer Digital Photo Frames
• Canvas Pop Digital Photo Print Service
• Photozini Takes Your Photos and Designs a Book For You
• A Polyvore Tutorial


Nomade Express Slee...
Thank you European time, I'm the first one out there to comment and answer the survey... and it's already 2 PM here in France !
Favorite sources are DesignSponge and the new and amazing online magazine Lonny. I'm actually downloading photos all the time, from AT and other websites, so I'm enhancing my assignment to making my selection and updating my ongoing style tray. Since I'm a complete computer addict, I'm using Numbers, an Apple program, that I love, because I can have both the inspirational tray and a nice excel-like sheet to cool down and think numbers and budget.
Since this is a light assignment, I'm going on with an intense deep cleaning. The kitchen is almost finished and cured !
I really miss Metropolitan Home--it was one of the best. I have to check out some of the recommendations from other AT readers.
Wasn't Met Home the mag that had that feature "High and Low" ? I Loved that segment or any place that can show you how to mimic high style on a low budget.
My fav mags tend toward the European like any of the non-US Elle Decorations though I do also love Elle Decor. My "go to" is Maire Clare Idee.
I guess it is time to choose 6 to 10 images from the hundreds of random clippings I have saved into Evernote during the last few months.
No purchases necessary for me! Over the past several years I've been digitally collecting photos that inspire me in the home decor department.
I also have a box of pages ripped from magazines (yes, a whole box full!), which I collected before I started my digital collection.
I'm going to go through both of these and weed out a bunch that aren't "me" now that I have a better grasp on what I truly like. Then I'll hand pick my ultimate favorites to keep in a notebook that I can pull out and look at, or take with me to a store/flea market. I'm hoping that will help prevent impulse purchases I'll regret (things that don't fit in my big-picture vision).
It'll take more than 20 minutes for sure, but I know I won't feel the time passing. :)
It's 9:30 pm on Wednesday right now for me, so I'll tackle this project when I get up tomorrow.
Good night!
Living Etc, House and Home, Vogue Australia, House Beautiful and Elle Decor
My favorite is not necessarily a mag. but more catalogs which I know are styled sometimes and kinda impractical but they have so much inspiration there you can take from. I love Zara Home @ zarahome.com even though I know they don't have a US store. I also like Real Simple although they only recently started giving design ideas. BTW does it count if I have been e-scrapbooking my inspirational photos in google docs for years now? Otherwise I'll gladly collect 6 more today lol.
Here are my inspirations
Cool Designs: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg9rd7jg_118chj9thzc
Modern Moroccan Designs: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg9rd7jg_11gqmq7fdf
I love the videos! Great addition to The Cure.
I loved Domino mag that went our of business...not so much for the pictures, but they had great resources published. I saved all my past issues. You mentioned you would list your favorite websiets other than AT but you never did on the video! Can you please?
Did I miss him bang his head. I guess he wasn't in his house today. I'm waiting for the webisode where he says remove all things hanging from ceilings.
I am Italian and I have a subscription to a magazine called "CASAVIVA" which i have found highly inspirational through the years. i also like English magazines such as "House Beautiful" and "Real Homes". Alas they are very rarely available in Italy
I loved Domino--I still can't believe it went under, especially since people are still talking about it.
Other Home Decor Mags:
Elle Decor
House Beautiful
Canadian House & Home
Lonny (Online)
Rue (Online)
Other blogs besides AT:
Design*Sponge
Habitually Chic
Making It Lovely
From the Right Bank
Decor8
Coco & Kelley
Apartment 34
This is Glamorous
From the East Side of the Bay
Sacramento Street
sfgirlbybay
loving.living.small
style/SWOON
Domino
Blueprint
House Beautiful
Anthropologie catalogs
RealSimple (their September fashion spread inspired my bedroom)
Living, Etc is amazing and inspirational. I miss Domino, still. Sunset magazine, while not a shelter mag, per se, always features a beautiful home or garden from the western US. Dwell, Met Home was delicious....
I could go on and on, but those are a few of my favorite things.
ReadyMade
Domino (I miss it!)
Chicago Home+Garden
I'm looking for new ones- I'll have to check some of the others' comments.
I love this assignment! My problem is narrowing it all down. :(
I love Design*Sponge and Dwell.
And I'm really loving the videos. It helps me get more out of this cure. I've never been this with it before.
Time to break out the Domino mags!
I don't have many, but it's better than nothing.
I also really like RealSimple.
I always grab references for inspiration, but found my desktop (literal and computeral) became cluttered quickly.
i use pinterest now, its pretty awesome... i have a different board for every room and it basically lets you pin an image to a virtual space... all organized and awesome like.
http://pinterest.com/
Oh! I almost forgot!
A great resource for inspiration, if you didn't save every copy of Domino, is The Domino Magazine Files flickr group.
Though I live in the big city, I am completely inspired by the pages of Country Living and Southern Living.
@ sparklerawk Whoa. That is good information.
So, I've been putting a google doc together of images that inspire me- and one thing has become very clear: I like shiny things.
I've recently found Pinterest.com---works great for posting or "pinning" all of the images you'd like to curate or file away for a rainy day. The great thing is, since you can view or follow other peoples pin boards, you don't have to go as far for inspiration, either. So now I skip hard copy altogether and sift through some of my favorite design pinboards.
Lonny mag online, MS Living (mostly for garden inspiration), and dang it I miss Domino too! How did that mag go under?
I LOVE that term 'shelter porn'!
I just love looking at design books and magazines and I have ripped out many-a-picture from magazines and scanned many from books that I have chosen not to buy. On the other hand, my shelves are stuffed full of books that I have purchased for just one photograph.
I also have a file folder stuffed with ideas and inspiration for when I finally get to it. I'm working on realizing a courtyard re-do that I have from a Sunset magazine from 2002. It takes me a while sometimes.
Thanks, Maxwell. Love the videos. I appreciate the daily ding to get to it!
I could spend the evening clicking through the ApartmentTherapy and Design Sponge sites but sometimes I need to feel the glossies so I get my fingers on Living Etc. and Style and Home.
Oops... I meant Pinterest.com/home
funstraw, I wondered why the pans were so low in yesterdays' video, too, and Maxwell didn't seem so bothered by it. But then I realized that Sara Kate is probably much shorter than he is and she is probably the one for whom the pot rack was installed. That would explain the location of the pot rack. Just a theory but it makes sense to me.
Thank you for doing this 20/20 cure. I am loving it! Cleaned a room and picked up some nice fall flowers - mums. Now I am going to share with you where I go for inspiration besides Apartment Therapy (our first go to place). I have been loving Pin It for inspiration not only for decorating but for creative gift ideas, cooking, travel ... it is like a big bulletin board full of beautiful things!
I apologize, it is not called Pin It but rather - http://pinterest.com/home/ - have fun!
LivingEtc
I subscribe to dwell and LivingETC through Zinio. I find the scale of the homes in LivingETC much more relatable than what you typically see in mags like ElleDECOR, which I occasionally peruse. I miss Metropolitan Home, Budget Living, and Domino. I also draw a lot of inspiration from freshome, design sponge, decor demon, and of course Apartment Therapy.
Well, this is an easy assignment!
I have been doing this forever. I have notebooks where I tape pictures torn from catalogs and magazines, and for digital stuff, I use Evernote. Since I already have so many, I think I will go through what I have. It has been a while.
When I was little, my grandma had a huge collection of old Country Living magazines in her basement. They sold that house about 10 years ago, and she gave me what was left of the magazines. I kept them for a little while, but I just didn't have the space, so I went through and kept the pictures I liked and recycled the rest. That was the start of my notebooks, and it always surprises me how little my tastes have changed over time.
And it's probably very un-Cure of me, but sometimes I wish I still had all of those magazines.
This isn't a printed magazine but it is a *great* database of interior design: http://www.houzz.com . I LOVE it (and apartmenttherapy :) ).
my best inspiration comes from real people's homes and seeing them evolve over time. i especially love a diy/making-do aesthetic. therefore, aside from home tours on at, i really love personal blogs for inspiration. these are the home-related flickr sets of my favorite bloggers:
(soulemama's new-old farmhouse)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22554961@N00/sets/72157624783346515/
(the old soule family home)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22554961@N00/sets/1791645/
(chez larsson)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chezlarsson/sets/72157603439433970/
(dottie angel)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dottieangel/sets/72157615085561711/
(.delight)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyjanssens/sets/72157600025082938/
oh yeah! and these were some of my 'inspiration' photos from a previous cure. looking forward to doing the assignment and updating this later today!
http://www.imgspark.com/image/listing/doubledutch/
This will be one of my favorite days during the Cure. I love flipping through design resources while relaxing. Here's a list of my current favs:
Mags: Domino (RIP), Canadian House & Home (I splurge on a US subscription to this), Country Living, Blueprint (RIP), Country Living, House Beautiful, Living, Etc.; will be checking out Anthology soon - looks good!
Books: Found Style (Amy Butler), Home Decor (Sunset Design Guide), The Interior Design Bible (Idealhome), AT's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces, and Domino: The Book of Decorating
Online Mags: Lonny and Rue
Online design resources/blogs: AT!, Design Sponge, Houzz (search using key words like vintage/industrial/eclectic), decor 8, ssfgirlbybay, The Brick House, Chez Larsson, Door Sixteen, Fine Little Day, flickr
Misc: West Elm catalog, Anthropologie Home catalogs, Skona Hemm's website
I think I'm doing something similar to Mrs. Mack - sort through piles of pics I already have and narrow down my style. Can't wait to get started!!
since i pull inspirational photos daily, it would be some feat to distill my look from 6-10 photos. but it is doable. my files and subfolders are quite vast now - far greater than what's posted on my flickr account, with or without the Paris sets.
i did a flickr gallery last year, though i didn't actually do the cure:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63122153@N00/galleries/72157622464163437/
Mags:
Livingetc
Canadian House & Home
Elle Decor
Better Homes & Gardens (sometimes, they have great home spreads - recapped on bhg.com)
House Beautiful (UK, then US - sometimes)
Domino (personal archive)
Online:
everybody is using the same sources and faves for the most part
Lonnymag
Rue (only one issue)
MicasaRevista (My House Magazine) - awesome archive
Livingetc.com archive
Housetohome.co.uk archive (multiple UK mags)
NestingNewbies online mag
desiretoinspire.net
decor8blog
designwonderland
other blogs devoted to color and bohemian decor
tons of sites for photographers and stylists
tons of screencap sites for movies and television shows
Books:
Easy Elegance
Domino Guide
Taschen books on Moroccan Style
I subscribe to dwell and readymade (a nice combination between expensive inspiration and ideas to recreate the item or feeling). I love Martha Stewart Living, and also really loved Blueprint, but I guess not that many did--it was only mentioned once I think. I will also miss Domino. Overall, I definitely use online sources the most--especially personal blogs. (Click on my name to find my blog about my rental house redo, and also the list of blogs I'm inspired by.)
O-At Home. It usually had a small house/space segment. Great photo too!
Hey Everyone, I'm going to include a list of great blogs that I recommend this afternoon, but I wanted to quickly share with you this amazing resource: our HOMIES competition from the past two years, with reader votes for best design blogs around the world.
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I didn't realize it. I had an addiction. I have an addiction to shelter porn. (First step is admitting it, right?) I've already collected TONS of photos of great design that I am now going to spend 20 minutes sifting through and picking out my 6 to 10 favorites.
And I love love love designspongeonline.com. I can't get enough of the fabulous stuff they share over there. <3
Here's a fantastic magazine no one has mentioned yet, Inside Out magazine from Australia. This is a fantastic magazine and worth hunting down.
Here's my shelter porn list:
Inside Out
Living Etc
Marieclaire Maison
Sunset Magazine
Cote Maisons: Cote Sud, Cote Ouest, etc.
Canadian House and Home is probably my favorite magazine available now. I also like MS Living, House Beautiful, and Living, Etc. Treasure my old Blueprint and Domino magazines.
An amazing book is The Nest Home Design Handbook--I haven't really used it for the tips, but the pictures are beautiful. Likewise any of the Sunset books (especially the kitchen one). I also love The Way We Live in the City, the AT books, and all the MS books (especially How to Decorate).
LOVE Door Sixteen, The Brick House, Manhattan Nest, Design Sponge, Nestled In, and Chez Larsson. I feel like I'm saying what everyone else is saying.
This is part of the Cure I have to keep myself from doing too much of lest I end up with too much clutter and too little money :)
My staple mags were Blueprint, Domino and Small Room Decorating. Even after many purges, articles and pics from these dominate my analog scrapbook. I've always loved little cottages and bungalows and these were/are small space friendly.
I've tried the "new" Domino integrated into Nest magazine but can't abide the cultish couples vs. singles tone.
These days, the realist in me takes a hard line against shelter porn. I won't ever subscribe to these mags after being twice burned by Victoria and being very bummed about Blueprint.
I also try to avoid buying or downloading items similar to content I already have. This alone has kept both digital and analog clutter under control. Donating decor books that no longer appeal has also helped me maintain a smaller sized library.
These days, I mostly buy quarterly special interest storage/diy mags, Canadian House & Home and House Beautiful.
Finally, although I can't read a word of them, I like to hit up SF's Kinokuniya for Japanese shelter mags and book-zines. The pics are great and there's always a small space focus.
Overall, I'm finding my most inspirational item to be The Spacemaker Book-- a 1978 tome full of line drawings of various room layouts, furniture arrangements and space making decor ideas.
I went to the bookstore today to look through the Shelter Porn and I have to say I was disappointed! I've gotten so used to/in love with the "real" home aesthetic of Apartment Therapy and personal blogs, that the mags just looked way, way, way too DONE, and un-lived-in. Too matchy-matchy as they say.
One of the things that I love about this site is that it first established for me the idea that you can have a clean, unique, eclectic, beautiful home without being a big rich person who can hire a fancy designer. What a blessed relief!
However, I do love some of the Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters catalogs. So gauche of me, I know, but there it is!
I use pinterest as well! Love it for storing inspiration online. I also love Lonny e-Mag and Elle Decor.
When Lucky died I switched over to House Beautiful. It isn't as down to earth but not too unreachable either.
Also, love the home cure videos so far. I especially like how they aren't so polished and fake feeling. They feel more real and conversational than other sites and tv shows. (It doesn't have that cheesy E! news presenter feeling). It feels like you are talking to me not at me. Nice job.
When Domino folded, I honestly could NOT believe it. I think I saw it announced on AT. As soon as Domino was announced as a new magazine, I didn't hesitate. I usually clean out my magazines every six month and throw them out and I honestly kick myself at not keeping them, but then I never thought that it would fold. I mean, Lucky is the same concept except for clothes and they are still around...I NEVER understood that. Nothing has ever come close (for me) to Domino and I wish they would bring it back. The online format for magazines drives me absolutely batty.
Hello, I'm liking this 20 minutes a day cure, it's easier to catch up if you get behind! I love older homes, so my favorite magazines are American Bungalow, and Cottages & Bungalows. I also love the homes featured in This Old House magazine...
Of the dearly departed magazines- I miss Budget Living.
because of the very limited space i have in my studio i get home ideas online. i visit apartmenttherapy of course and freshome and casasugar. :D
I have to start by saying that Domino was my favorite magazine of all time. I still have many of my old ones, but SADLY, I threw away a few (not knowing that they were ABOUT TO FOLD) during an intense weeding session. I could kick myself!!! Anyway, sorry to beat a dead horse, but in this case, I think the horse deserves the beating.
Anyway...... on to happier things. I can't believe that no one has mentioned www.lightlocations.com! It's pretty amazing. Also Skona Hem. The Swedish have an amazing aesthetic. And Lonny, of course. And House of Turquoise. And sfgirlbybay. And the rest of the usual suspects, so i won't even bother listing them.
By the way, I too own Rose Tarlow's Private House. Such a great book.
Flickr is my go-to for searching for inspiration pictures. I've yet to find such a real source of homes in print.
This was so fun! I went through a few of the magazines I already had and found a lot of inspiration...also some websites I had bookmarked. Here's my vlog! http://bit.ly/9L0BW8
Forgot to mention this one....don't think anyone said this one and it is amazing:
http://www.standardmag.com/
Living Etc!
http://www.livingetc.com/
Their designer's blog:
http://lifestyleetc.co.uk/
Home Shopping Spy:
http://homeshoppingspy.wordpress.com
I usually read Schöner Wohnen, a german shelter porn, but every time a can get my hands over some US mags, I grab them. I like dwell an livingect. I also love to look at inspirational blogs, as sfgirlbybay, door 16 and design sponge.
Oh, I forget something!
I ordered a new vaccumcleaner, a Dyson Animal Pro and it arrived yesterday. It is so much better that the vaccumcleaners I had before. I spend one hour cleaning my pad, floors, radioators, every corner. It is incredible clean here right now, although I have to furry cats! Thanks Maxwell for your inspiration to get a tool you really like to work with!
Not sure if I should admit this one in present company, but I really love Better Homes and Gardens (especially their "Color" and "Containers" features). Also, Maine Home + Design and Canadian House and Home. RIP to my fallen favorites: Gourmet, Domino and Blueprint. For online sources, there's Apartment Therapy's family of sites and Design Sponge. I would do myself a favor by spending more time exploring online sources, I think.
Not much for magazines I don't want the paper cluttering up my home. Online sources include AT, Upluggd, Fliphome on my iPad have been thinking about subscribing to a couple of mags via Zinio. Also look manufacturers / store web sites and sometimes Realtuor.com seeing how homes have been staged to sell.
Dwell is one of my favorite magazines! But I find a lot of inspiration online like AT, ohdeedoh.... others that I like are houzz.com (just learned about from real simple), blue ant studio, decor8, design sponge, roomforyoungones.com, babygadget.net, coochicoos.com
Love the shout out to Canadian mags. I've subscribed to Canadian House and Home for maybe 20 years. Wow. I like Style at Home as well.
I keep a binder with rooms as sections for inspiration photos. Even when I'm not in reno-mode. Hoping to build a cottage one day so keeping pics that inspire.
Ikea catalogues always give me ideas too.
Watching these videos makes me happy. I will be doing my browsing online to save money.
Hi!
You mentioned some Canadian mags.
House & Home is a good one:
http://www.houseandhome.com/
Style at Home is another:
http://www.styleathome.com/
And for those of you ready to literally droooool over architect/design/interiors :
http://www.azuremagazine.com/index.php
Enjoy!
one of my biggest sources in Wallpaper*
I've got a collection of magazines--including some oldies from Elle Decor that have survived every magazine purge. More recent Australian ones I like are Real Living and InsideOut.
Also: thanks to everyone who has suggested online sites!
For this assignment I am particularly interested in images of eclectic grouping of art and objects on walls, as I've got a collection of empty frames, old pix, and decorative hooks that I want to put up in my bedroom--once I get the nerve.
Here's a nice selection of images from a blog called interiordivine:
http://interiordivine.blogspot.com/2008/08/hanging-art-at-home.html
If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd love to get the info.
I'm running a day behind, but this particular video has me yearning for my favorite activity...I love flipping through shelter porn.
I have found a cure for my collection of mag clippings - While waiting in an office that has magazines of interest, if I find a page that I can't live without, instead of ripping, I take a photo with my phone. Now I have a folder on my computer that I can quickly pull up as a reference while reducing clutter on my desk.
I also have a couple of fav books that I get inspired by over and over again -
Recycled Home by Mark Bailey
Old House, New Home by Ros Byam Shaw
I was thinking this would be the easiest assignment -- but I've been avoiding all week. I'll make it my goal for the weekend. Someone mentioned going through stuff they've clipped. And I think I'll start there, too.
I am drawn to eclectic and mid-century design and for that aesthetic Atomic Ranch Magazine can't be beat. They have very down-to-earth and achievable design features as well as great remodeling ideas and resources.
I too miss Budget Living.
2 books I also like: Atomic Ranch (by the publishers of the magazine) and The House Book by Terence Conran (it's very 70's/80's but full of funkiness and some really beautiful garden ideas)
I just signed up so I could post but I have been following along since the cure started. Really love the friendly videos.
I also like the Anthropologie catalog and I have a page from an old Conran's catalog in my design scrap book. There's so much good design online now that I haven't bought a magazine in a while though I've saved all of my World of Interiors, my favorite design magazine.
We love... Vogue Living Australia, Domino, and World of Interiors UK
Oh my goodness, Lolo's Mama. You took the words right out of my mouth.
Domino
Blueprint
House Beautiful (my fav!!!!)
Anthropologie catalogs
Yes!
I love the Frech regional Maisons magazines (Côté Ouest, Côté Est, Côté Sud).
my favourite magazine is the architectural digest (AD), don't know, if its possible to get this magazine in the usa...but it's fantastic.
the web has some really good sites as well, as there are: designsponge, theselby.com and of course - a german site: stylinrooms.de - take a look!
another thing to keep in mind are all the things outside in the nature, all the colors ,forms an arrangements can be useful for your home.
and one another thing: if you are into the design of the 50's and 60's, you have to buy the german book "Unsere Wohnung" by Eva M.J. Schmid - it's excellent and you do not have to understand the text parts, even the pictures give you a great idea of how people lived in the mid century.
http://pinterest.com/mrsmack/
Aaaaaand done. ;)
I really like the Swedish blog Chez Larsson: http://chezlarsson.com/
Not that my condo looks like that, but I love it. And Benita is great at explaining how and why she's doing what she's doing.
I like Côté Paris.
Better Homes and Gardens books,
The Emotional House: How Redesigning Your Home Can Change Your Life by Dawn Ritchie and Kathryn L. Robyn,
Family Circle, Woman's Day, Home Depot books on decor, This Old House, Pottery Barn books and catalogue.
God, I miss Metropolitan Home!
Taschen published some books years ago - Paris Interiors, New York Interiors, Berlin Interiors among others--great books! Great daydreaming and inspiration books.
I keep my online shelter p0rn on Pinterest.
In fact, I went through all of my "starred" AT and DS posts from Google Reader to make sure I had them all pinned accordingly to my "Home" board.
http://pinterest.com/bodicegoddess/home/
I'm a subscriber to Better Homes and Gardens, and have some ripped-out pages from there, but I'm a huge fan of Midwest Home and HOLMES: The Magazine for Making it Right.
Home improvement and DIY is shelter p0rn for me as well.
I've bookmarked over ten inspirational photos in Caribbean Style, by Suzanne Slesin, also in Miami Hot and Cool, text by Laura Cerwinske and photographs by Steven Brooke. Although they're old they're so good that after reading them I still own them despite multiple book collection purges. I'm back on schedule in the Cure, yeah!
I miss Met Home as well! It was one of my favorites! I already have my pictures on my vision board since it was an assignment for something else I am part of. So I get to catch up on Monday's assignment. Time just seems to get away from me lately. I look up and the day is half over and it flet like 10 minutes had passed.
Done ! I updated my different style trays using my all time favorite program Numbers. The kitchen has undergone quite a switch, from a white and red palette to white, green and wood.
How funny, I just started using Pinterest and yesterday I pinned several pictures for my home board!
Dwell
Fine Homebuilding
Fine Gardening
Garden Design
Better Homes & Gardens
Southern Living
Online:
AT, of course
Design Sponge
notcot.org
Well, its only day 3 and I'm already behind!
I felt like my kitchen needed more than a surface clean - or maybe that there was so much STUFF that a surface clean just wasn't possible without more a deep clean.
To be fair, though, I have a giant pinterest board, so this is done!
I only subscribe to Sunset and Real Simple... no online favorites .
oh Domino..couldn't believe it either..and had also 'weeded'..Real Simple for sure..inspiration of many moves/rooms..their room colors and crisp and cleaness! Any 'decluttering' articles on Apttherapy!! Of course my best inspiration comes always from YOU>>: )
I've had a shelter porn addiction since I was 15 and my best friend in high school "hooked me up". Of all the hundreds I've read over the years Met Home and Domino were the hands down favorites. Recently discovered pinterest and am liking it. Don't really like the e-format but I do read Standard, Lonny and Rue as long as I can stand it.
Printed: Cottages and Bungalows, Atomic Ranch, Elle Decor and Real Simple. BTW Ready Made has folded. :-(
I loved Domino...
Today I read Dwell and mainly addicted to Houzz's iPad app.
Magazines:
Living
Real Simple
Movies:
Something's Gotta Give (DVD)
Books:
Home Rules by Nate Burkus
Perfect Order by Elizabeth Hilliard
Ethan Allen New American Style
Online:
Apartment Therapy
Design Sponge
Oh, the Domino book is a constant inspiration. I referred to it this very morning. I really love the combination of practicality and aesthetics. Love, love it.
Wanted to give another shoutout for Pinterest. I just rearranged my bedroom (inspired by monday's room cleaning post! I just couldn't stop...) and before doing that I trolled Pinterest for bedrooms that I "aspire" to. I think it worked great - the new layout is much improved.
Signed up for Pinterest.
Pinterest! Done and done. My inspiration boards are here: http://pinterest.com/sparklerawk/
I loved Blueprint and was really sad when it died, and then Domino, which was almost as good, went too. I get House Beautiful, and I like it, but its a poor third to the other two.
I wish I could justify the price of the international magazines. My old library used to get Style at Home and I loved it.
Readymade
Domino "R.I.P"
Sunset
ApartmentTherapy
Internet with Clipboard for saving images.
* believe it or not, but environmental websites usually have some unique design ideas for modern homes.
I so miss "Southern Accents" but "Veranda" has some great photography and gets me my southern fix. I also miss Mary Emerlings "Cottage Living" but BH & G, Coastal Living and County Living fill the need as well.
I've also purged my favorite articles and I keep them in magnetic photo albums for quick access and easy organization. I also use them for my recipes.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Natural Home Magazine!
My two favourite home magazines are called Cote Paris and Maison France from the series "Cote Maison" (Cote Maison, in case you can't see French writing on your computer). They're magazines from France but I think I saw some when I was some time ago in Brooklyn. If you can't get a hold of them, you can always visit their website cotemaison.fr and read their wonderful blogs!
Thank you so much for your videos! They're very interesting and do help!
Question: What do you do if all those inspirational pictures? It'd be nice if you told us how you store them to avoid clutter and confusion. I have SO MANY of them on my computer and some cut out pages of magazines and have been waiting for a long time to dive into that mess and make something out of it!