Charter One Realty Blog

From Pinterest to blogs, if you spend any time online, home improvement inspiration is all around you. Whether it’s helpful tips for painting kitchen cabinets or holiday decorating, we’ve gathered our top 15 DIY Home Improvement Blogs for you to browse. Each one listed below is chalked full of wonderful surprises. My you find inspiration!

1.  Erin Spain

Erin is the founder of the Atlanta Home & DIY Bloggers group. Her blog focuses on home decorating tips, DIY, and lifestyle topics. Erin shares her experience as you follow her journey of turning a house into their home.  Be sure to check out her blog “Our Trip To Hilton Head Island {& Tips For Traveling To The Beach With Kids}.

http://www.erinspain.com/

2.  The Ugly Duckling House

After purchasing her Atlanta, GA home in 2010, Sarah began chronicling her home remodel of what she called “the ugly duckling” into something more like a swan. Follow her DIY adventures including sources of inspiration, mood boards, and ideas.

http://www.uglyducklinghouse.com/ 

3.  The Inspired Room

Melissa has years of experience blogging daily encouragement and ideas to inspire you to create a home you’ll love. From interior design tips to organization tips, this blog is chalked full of great ideas. The Inspired Room was voted as a Readers’ Favorite Top Decorating Blog in 2014 and 2015 by Better Homes & Gardens magazine.

http://theinspiredroom.net/

4.  IKEA Hackers

We can all find something we want at IKEA! This blog takes those products and inspires you to modify and enhance them in meaningful ways. You’ll also find that this blog is very organized. Have a room that needs an update? From the Ideas navigation tab, select the room of interest and Voila…pages of ideas.

http://www.ikeahackers.net/

5.  Miss Mustard Seed

Do you love vintage items? Do you enjoy going to thrift stores and garage sales? If so then this blog is for YOU. From shopping tips for antiques to furniture makeovers, you’ll find tips and ideas on how to turn something ordinary into treasures.

http://missmustardseed.com/

6.  Southern Hospitality

Rhonda has created a blog to share her adventures in decorating, thrifting, cooking, fashion, and gardening with a bit of good ole Southern Hospitality. You’ll find all of her DIY projects located under DIY Gallery.

http://southernhospitalityblog.com/

7.  Little Green Notebook

Jenny Komenda started her blog in 2007 as a way to express her love for smart and chic DIY projects. You’ll also learn more about her second place passion as she hunts for unique fabrics and vintage furniture.

http://littlegreennotebook.com/ 

8.  Milk and Honey Home

Julie began her blog to chronicle the renovation of her 70’s ranch style home and share her passion for decorating. Julie has a wonderful decorating portfolio of ideas which can be found on her Pinterest page. https://www.pinterest.com/julieholloway/our-work/ Get ready to be inspired!

http://www.milkandhoneyhome.com/#home-about

 9.  Emily A Clark

Named after its creator, this blog takes simple design ideas and affordable projects and brings them to life. She even dives into search terms to help you find just the item you’re looking for online.

http://emilyaclark.com/

10.  Curbly

Curbly is a DIY design community for people who love where they live. Everyone should have a happy and beautiful home. With the right tools and knowhow, every person can create a place that fits their personality. Curbly helps you bring out the best in your home.

http://www.curbly.com/

11.  Somewhat Simple

One of our favorite blogs! Somewhat Simple is a team of bloggers with a passion to share their projects, recipes, and lifestyle tips. Created with busy families in mind, a quick way to find what you’re looking for is to visit their Pinterest page here https://www.pinterest.com/somewhatsimple/  You’re sure to find a bit of daily inspiration here.

http://www.somewhatsimple.com/

12.  The Lettered Cottage

This lovely blog, created by Layla Palmer and her husband. Together, the duo has produced articles for HGTV.com as well as photograph and style interiors for a handful of home magazines.

http://theletteredcottage.net/

13.  One Project Closer

This is a great home improvement blog full of DIY projects, tools, and material review that will place you “one project closer” to the home of your dreams. Their team is a group of pro remodelers that will take you step-by-step through renovations, sharing their real life experiences along the way.

http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/

14.  Thistlewood Farms

Tune in as KariAnne shares inspiring stories about the family, some recipes and DIY projects that include home decorating and home improvement tips.

http://thistlewoodfarms.com/

15.  The Creativity Exchange

The Creativity Exchange shares inspiring DIY ideas for a creative home. The blog was started by Cindy as a hobby and creative outlet in 2010.

http://www.thecreativityexchange.com/