Guest Top Ten List

Great interior style does not have to come with a high price. These ten blogs offer inspiration and guidance on owning, renovating, and designing a home with affordable ideas, creative tips, and DIY projects.

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Stacey Lindsay is a correspondent for Remodelista, a sourcebook for considered living. Counting style-conscious consumers as well as design professionals among its daily audience, Remodelista offers features such as Steal This Look, 10 Easy Pieces and Architect Visits. To discover more DIY and renovation ideas, visit the Remodelista Design Newsstand, a visual list of 100+ must-read design blogs offering style perspectives and remodeling advice. The Newsstand promotes a different blog every few minutes and provides avid design readers with an enjoyable means to browse through their favorites.

Top Ten DIY Renovation Blogs

Big City Little House

A young couple documents their adventures of gutting and refinishing their small house in San Francisco, proving that “you don't have to have a lot of square footage to live well.”

Brownstoner

Whether you live in Brooklyn, want to live in Brooklyn, or are just curious about life in the borough, this is the blog and sourcebook for you. Jonathan Butler and his team offer the latest news on buildings, renovations, and neighborhood news from all of Brooklyn.

Design Sponge

Brooklyn-based writer Grace Bonney has a talent for finding design inspiration in everything around her and translating it into DIY projects, affordable decorating tips. and living ideas.

Door Sixteen

Book cover designer Anna Dorfman-Stark writes about the renovation process she and her husband have taken on for their 1890s Victorian row house in the Hudson Valley of New York.

Hindsvik At Home

Shop owners, Daniel Garbutt and Valeria Herner give readers an inside look at the renovation process of their Canadian home. The site is easy to navigate and offers step-by-step project tutorials, DIY ideas and inspiring images.

Ikea Hackers

One of the most ingenious DIY blogs around: Started by “Jules” in Malaysia, Ikea Hackers is an online community where people from around the world post their incorporations, modifications, and embellishments of Ikea home furniture and accessories.

Kitka Design Toronto

Toronto based owners of home ware shop Mjölk, Juli Daoust and John Baker have a discerning eye for Japanese and Scandinavian design and chronicle their home renovation projects, hips finds, and travels adventures on this inspiring blog.

The Brick House

Morgan Satterfield’s DIY and renovation advice is not just visually stimulating; with a taste for a modern and clean aesthetic, Satterfield shows us all how to do it on a moderate budget.

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The Improvised Life

This blog is about “doing more with less” and the joys that come from creating things out of leftover pieces, random finds, and everyday objects.

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Katy Elliot has a keen eye for a traditional, New England aesthetic and sheds an informative light on the world of renovating an old Massachusetts home.

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