Interior Design Blog Review

In Interior Design we were asked to explore a few Interior Design blogs and websites. Many Interior Designers choose to have a blog because for them it can act like a portfolio that has easy access and show cases their style in a unique and fun way that sets themselves apart from other Designers.



One of my top blog sites was Houzz. There is such a big variety that you can look at and get inspired by to make your designers better. It could also just help open your eyes with the wide variety as well as showing new techniques, ideas, and layouts to gie you a more variety in what you are able to do as an Interior Designer.




Apartment Therapy was another great blog that I really enjoyed. It focused on making sure that no space is wasted in an apartment.This blog mostly focuses on tips and giving you ideas as to how to be mindful of the space and area that you have. I personally found it very useful because I will be moving into my own apartment in less than a year and will want to look at all the tips and ideas that they had. This blog is my favorite because of how useful it is to me at this point in time.

My final blog that I enjoyed was the Dwell. What I think made this blog so appealing to me was the fact that it was very organized. If you happened to be renovating a house it has a section with a few posts and photos to help you out. If you just wanted to look at some beautiful rooms and houses for inspiration, this blog also has that. With such a wide variety of things that are organized so nicely it's hard not to like this blog.



While I was exploring these blogs and many more I have found a few really cool trends when it comes to Interior Design and just housing in general. When I say housing I am really meaning on how you live. Some of the trends happened to be the rising interest in tiny houses. Tiny houses are typically 500 square feet. Some tiny houses are actually built on trailer beds (8 feet by 20 feet) which makes the living space to be around 120 square feet or less. The appeal of these kinds of homes are the way to limit the amount of useless things that we all seem to accumulate as well as avoiding the need for a building permit.


My second trend that I had found was again a new rising interest that renovates the way we build and live in homes. I very unconventional and nontraditional way to build a house that is becoming a very popular thing is using shipping containers to build up your home. With the containers you can make a really unique shape and add onto it as much as you want by simply adding more containers. It is also far more affordable than building a home in the traditional form.