J&S International New Star rug

andDesign Blogs

• Apartment Therapy — How-to makeovers, classifieds for select cities (NY, Boston, Chicago, SF, Madison). Ranges from IKEA to mid-market modern.
• Automatism — From a collage illustrator looking at design, art, interiors. Literate and wide ranging.
• Bodie and Fou — Written by Karine Candice, a French ex-pat living in London who blogs and sells from her online shop. Good taste.
• ChicTip — Features rugs and textiles in its list of subjects. Contributors based in NY, London, & he Philippines.
• Confessions Of A Design Geek — Interviews designers, and is a design geek.
• Design Spotter — Contemporary. Plenty of rugs. Based in Germany. Wide coverage.
• Desire To Inspire Looks at spaces, contemporary, with the perspective of two bloggers commenting on what they see. Includes “How to.”
• Dexigner — Everything but rugs. Excellent source on upcoming events and competitions.
• Four Walls and a Roof — From San Francisco. Stylish, eclectic, and talks occasionally about rugs.
• Habitually Chic — Subtitled: Glamorous Lives & Stylish Places says it all. Also comments on how she would redecorate specific settings.
• Home Designing — Focus on rooms, lots of followers, and a good number of rugs.
• Kelly Hoppen — Top British designer.
• Materialicious — materialicious™ (“shelter, materials and objects”) is a user-submitted visual curation site featuring modern architecture and design, craftsmanship, materials and products.
• Modenus — A UK blog for modern design and designers, covering before & after, product reviews, Interior Design, Kitchen & Bath, Architecture, Lifestyle trends and Travel and Design.
• Polly Rowan — Textile designer with kids. Looks at wallpaper and fabric. Personal approach to designs in “my work.”
• Roomology — The study of well-designed interiors, by two New York City-based interior designers, both coincidentally named Susan – one of whom, Susie Kurkowski, photo-blogs NYC trade shows for us at walkingthemarket.com
• Tréndir — A compendium of design resources and products from outside Chicago.