Let's face it: It is easy to take design and decor Very Seriously. It is easy to get caught up in design and beauty and personal aesthetics and forget to do one very important thing: To laugh. Because if design and decor are ultimately about the way we live; the homes we live in. Design is about people. And people need to laugh at themselves. If we forget to see the lighter side of design we are doomed! Here are a handful of design blogs that provide some seriously funny and snarky comic relief:
• My Favorite and My Best. Crass. Rude. Sarcastic. Opinionated. Jenny has a mouth like a sailor and she is F***ing HILARIOUS. And she has great taste, too!
• Jenny at MFAMB turned me on to Modern Sauce, a sassy smart blog from Lacy, who says of herself: "I'm a 30-something textile designer who loves inspired living and fancy things. Unfortunately I'm cheap, lazy and easily distracted. Watch as mediocrity ensues!"
• Design Crisis is another funny, self-deprecating blog with a terrific sense of style. Here's a recent entry: "What I'm trying to say is, I'm sorry I'm such a crap blogger. I have great hopes of being better in the near future. But the future is later so in the meantime, look at these random pictures and let me tell you about my adventures."
• Me, You and a Weiner is a laugh riot. Some good DIY and a lot of swearing--don't let your grandma read this one. High-larious.
• Currently a bit of a viral phenomenon is a blog called F*** Your Noguchi Coffee Table. Given that each of us is reading (or, in my case, writing) Apartment Therapy posts, this little Tumblr snarkfest may hit just a tad close to home! But, lighten up, people. If you can't laugh at interior design and you can't laugh at yourself you are in big trouble.
• Catalog Living is dedicated to making fun of the pretentious and implausible staging that goes on in catalogs.
• This rude post is from McSweeney's. It's just one post: McSweeney's isn't a design blog. But it is funny.
• Ugly House Photos. Feel badly about your home and your style? Check out this blog and you'll feel oh-so-pretty and together. Completely elitist and completely funny.
Have any funny favorites we should know about? Let us know in the comments...
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You must discover http://betterafter.blogspot.com/. Lindsey is funny, friendly, snarky and sarcastic, often at her own expense.
Am I seriously the first to comment on this post????
I can't be the only one who was a little nervous that my own blog might be listed here ????
(HUGE sigh of relief)......Thecavenderdiary.com
Thanks God it's not THAT bad.....
I went into an interview the other day for a design company and had the employer tell me this: we have a culture here where we dont want to hire "little miss sunshine". Basically they want their staff to be miserable aka "too cool to smile".
And honestly I went away feeling a bit sad for the company and for everyone that worked there... since when did design become this very serious/unfun way to live your life? I get it that design is important and that it is something to take serious, but wtf?
I am a designer and if more creative people started having a little bit of fun and "played" and experimented more with design we might have more well designed places, spaces and things. Isnt that what creativity is about? - The ability to experiment and actually explore ideas? So that being said, this post could not come at a more perfect time for me... so thanks for the moment to vent! To all of those "oh so serious, we dont smile full of themselves designers" ......
MFAMB is one of my favorite blogs ever! That woman has had me doubled over with laughter with tears running down my face. Y'all are seriously missing out if this site is not part of your life.
CATRIN - I've never seen sites like these, just finished visiting them all. Catalog Living had me in stitches, thank you. However, I won't be re-visiting Ugly House Photos... I want to clean everyone of those shoddy homes.
NCACCAVO - I can't imagine working in a place like that, it would slowly kill me.
I like to inject humor in my decor in small subtle ways, sometimes inside jokes nobody else would notice but which make me smile.
I used to have a classic rubber duckie (before the trend to modify them with sunglasses and all that crap). My partner never got the joke, he found it embarrassing to have it on the corner of the tub in case somebody though HE was responsible. Eventually duckie went away but I still think fondly of him!
You are totally missing http://www.moggit.com
They poke fun of ridiculous design ideas. They call themselves "the guilty pleasure of the design world"
It's unfortunate that nearly every single one of these blogs is blocked by my office network. :(
I love Orlando Soria's blog "The Hommemaker" http://hommemaker.com/
Very funny, very cute, & he loves his mom :)
I clicked to his site via Modern Sauce, who I clicked to via Me You & a Wiener, etc. When I finally start on my new year's goals, I will copy them all shamelessly.