Business of Life

House blogs

So how about blogs that offer advice and ideas on household projects?  I've been exploring a few since the Wall St Journal highlighted them in Homespun Expertise on the Web by Kara Swisher.

My favorite was House in Progress with a great tag line "We call it home improvement because it can't get any worse," and a fabulous blogroll of house bloggers as well as an aggregator site called houseblogs.net.  Loved the drawers in the stairs. 

Spent a lot of time at Hewn and Hammered indulging my love for bungalows made and restored by  artists and craftsmen.  In fact, since I'm in the process of selling a house that's currently rented out and getting ready to look for another,  I spent much too much time there.    Suddenly, I'm very interested in houses again.  But first I want to read Sarah Susanka whose ideas on beauty, coziness and sustainability were first articulated in her book and I ended up ordering her "The Not So Big House Collection: The Not So Big House and Creating the Not So Big House" (Sarah Susanka)

Then of course there's This Old House, with all sorts of resources, even webcams on their latest project.