Blog Love

On the right side column on my blog I have a list of other blogs that I read on a regular basis. Most of them are house and decorating related right now, but in the past it was all about scrapbooking, wedding planning, or many other things that were holding my interest at the time. I still check out other interests from time to time, but I would definitely say houses are tops on my hobby list right now. 

One of my current favorites is Young House Love, which is a husband and wife couple that makes their living by blogging about the renovations they tackle on their own home.

(all images from YHL)

They usually post a couple times a day. Sometimes it's just something fairly mundane, but they do a great job with tutorials and with listing where they source everything along with costs for all their projects. I might not agree with every decision they make, but it's fun to follow their progress.

Another site I've been loving is Hooked on Houses. This blog shows real estate listings from all over the US that are either interesting and fabulous, or interesting because they're just plain weird. She also shows celebrity homes and homes from television and movies. There's a great mixture of old and new and it's fun to get a peek into places you wouldn't normally be allowed.

Real life version of Disney movie "Up" house. Everything inside matches the movie down to the pictures on the wall! So cute

You can tour Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith's house in California. It's HUGE and decorated in sort of a Mediterranean style.

Then we have a lovely photo from a crazy real estate listing found somewhere in Texas. Every room of the house was decorated in a weird gothic vampire-esque style. Even crazier? The house was listed for about $750,000!

This was another entry I found hilarious. Every room of the house was shown with this creepy looking doll posed in some way. In the bathroom she sat by the sink. On the patio she was posed with a drink and sunglasses on a lounge chair. What the heck?

One more that's a fun one lately is House Tweaking. It's about a family who downsizes from their standard McMansion house full of rooms they don't use, to a '50's ranch house they're in the process of gutting for a complete renovation. This is something that is so after my own heart. I would much rather have an older home full of character that's on the smaller side, than a huge cavernous house full of builder grade boringness.

 Anyway, back to House Tweaking. Because they're currently still hanging drywall and stuff at their new house, I'll show you a couple pictures of their old one.

She has kind of an eclectic fun style that I like. I'm very curious to see what they do with their new house, which currently looks like this.

And here is a good one of the exterior old house and new.

She also shows renovations from her readers, and products she's liking, etc. Lots of fun stuff.

So that's a few of my favorite bloggers right now. It's fun to see other people out there who have the same interests I do, especially when all my design friends have moved away. Enjoy!