You might be thinking, what is an Interiors blog doing listing all the other good interiors blogs? Well we love to read Australian Interiors blogs too. Here are our top 20, plus some extras.
Blogs that Need No Introduction
Blog: The Design Files
Who’s Behind the Blog: Lucy Feagins
Where are they: Melbourne
How often do they blog: Daily
What do they blog about: Regular features on the site include Australian Homes every Wednesday, Tasty Tuesday, and Interviews with talented local creative people every Friday.
What we love: We love that Lucy pioneered Australian interiors blogging back in 2008, and we love that her focus is on creating good original content.
Blog: Interiors Addict
Who’s Behind the Blog: Jen Bishop
Where are they: Sydney
How often do they blog: 2-4 times per day (that’s a lot of blogging)
What do they blog about: The Block and other tv home shows, Interiors products, Interviews with Interiors Experts, House Tours, 7 Vignettes Instagram Challenge, and Friday Foodie recipe
What we love: If there’s something new happening in the interiors industry, Jen is usually the first to know about it. The press release companies have her on speed dial.
Blog: The Stylist Splash
Who’s Behind the Blog: Yvette Wilson
Where are they: Melbourne
How often do they blog: 3-4 times per week
What do they blog about: Decorating tips, Homewares, Fashion, Food and her home and lifestyle.
What we love: Yvette’s photos. She is the Queen of the flat lay.
Blog: The Life Creative
Who’s Behind the Blog: Chris Carroll
Where are they: Melbourne – in the burbs
How often do they blog: Usually 3-5 times per week
What do they blog about: The Block and other tv home shows, furniture & homewares, decorating tips, kids, crafts & diy, and food recipes.
What we love: Chris’s writing style and sense of humour. There’s no copy and paste a press release on this blog – Chris injects his colourful personality into every post.
Blog: Katrina Chambers
Who’s Behind the Blog: Katrina Chambers
Where are they: Wagga Wagga
How often do they blog: Usually 4 times per week
What do they blog about: The Block and other tv home shows, Interiors products, DIY and how-to, Floor Plan Friday where she looks at house floor plans
What we love: If anybody’s allowed to write about The Block, it’s Katrina. After all she was a contestant in 2011.
Blog: Adore Home Blog
Who’s Behind the Blog: Loni Parker
Where are they: Brisbane
How often do they blog: 3-4 times per week, Quarterly printed magazine
What do they blog about: House Tours, Homewares, Interviews
What we love: The photography. If you’re after drool worthy photos, Adore has them.
Blog: Houzz Australia
Who’s Behind the Blog: The Houzz Editorial Team and Guest Posters
Where are they: Sydney
How often do they blog: 3+ times per day
What do they blog about: House Tours, decorating, DIY projects
What we love: We love seeing both the Australian and international home tours featured on Houzz.
Oldies but Goodies
Blog: A Beach Cottage
Who’s Behind the Blog: Sarah
Where are they: Sydney’s Northern Beaches
How often do they blog: It varies, maybe 1-2 times per month
What do they blog about: More of a personal blog, Sarah shares her own home, life by the sea and recipes.
What we love: That girl is a whizz with the camera. Her photos will make you want to move to the beach – just ask her 70k+ instagram followers. We also love how resourceful she is, mixing vintage finds with a bit of IKEA to create her signature look.
Blog: Coastal Style
Who’s Behind the Blog: Melissah
Where are they: Anglesea, on The Great Ocean Road outside Melbourne
How often do they blog: Daily
What do they blog about: rooms to inspire, tips on decorating, ways to save money and
how to create a beautiful beach house.
What we love: Melissah’s beach house. It’s beautiful, relaxed and inviting all at once.
Blog: Marley & Lockyer
Who’s Behind the Blog: Ness
Where are they: Tamar Valley, Tasmania
How often do they blog: It varies – maybe once a month
What do they blog about: Renovating her farmhouse and her hand made ceramics range
What we love: We love her farmhouse style, her amazing handwriting, and her knack for creating beautiful rooms on a budget.
Blog: Lilyfield Life
Who’s Behind the Blog: Fiona
Where are they: Sydney
How often do they blog: A couple of times per week
What do they blog about: Painted furniture, furniture makeovers and life in Sydney
What we love: We love that Fiona can see the potential in an old piece of furniture and give it a new lease on life with some paint and new hardware.
More Top Interiors Blogs
Blog: The Style Curator
Who’s Behind the Blog: Gina Ciancio
Where are they: Canberra, ACT
How often do they blog: About 3 times per week
What do they blog about: Interiors, DIY, Interviews and runs the #stylecuratorchallenge on instagram
What we love: We just love Gina. She’s such a lovely lady and she’s done a great job building her own home in Canberra. We like people who walk the talk.
Blog: Gallerie B
Who’s Behind the Blog: Belinda
Where are they: Melbourne
How often do they blog: Once or twice a week
What do they blog about: American style decorating, her own house build and Friday Favourites (think Hamptons)
What we love: We just love Belinda’s style. She has a traditional American style that’s a classic in our eyes.
Blog: The Builder’s Wife
Who’s Behind the Blog: Nicole
Where are they: Ipswich, Queensland
How often do they blog: Daily
What do they blog about: Interior decorating advice, interiors products, interviews with tradies, my favourite space (where other blogger’s share their favourite room – Both Sam & I have been featured)
What we love: We love seeing what Nicole is up to in her own home – a majestic Queenslander called Pen Y Llechwedd. Being married to a builder, she has lots of good tips.
Blog: The Plumbette
Who’s Behind the Blog: Rebecca (Bec) Senyard
Where are they: Brisbane
How often do they blog: About 3 times per week
What do they blog about: The Block, bathrooms and plumbing, and motherhood.
What we love: Combining motherhood, plumbing and blogging is not something you find everyday and that’s why we love her. We also love her genuine and down to earth style.
Blog: Glamour Coastal Living
Who’s Behind the Blog: Ashlea Kerr
Where are they: Gold Coast, Queensland
How often do they blog: 2 times per week
What do they blog about: Interior decorating tips, Ashlea’s house renovation and Feature Friday (celebrity house tour)
What we love: If you want to see inside celebs homes, then Friday feature is your thing. I loved seeing inside Phil and Amity’s new home.
Blog: Recycled Interiors
Who’s Behind the Blog: Helen Edwards
Where are they: Adelaide
How often do they blog: 3-4 times per week
What do they blog about: Helen blogs about all things sustainable when it comes to building and decorating, DIY projects and general well being.
What we love: We love Helen’s passion for the environment when it comes to our homes, and mindfulness when it comes to life. She has also just started a podcast.
Blog: House Nerd
Who’s Behind the Blog: Maya Anderson
Where are they: Perth
How often do they blog: About once a week
What do they blog about: House tours, Shops, Before & After, DIY, and her home.
What we love: We love her Home Envy section where she features house tours of real Australian homes. We also love the way she refers to her own home as The Crap Shack!
Retailers & Designers with Blogs
Blog: Melinda Hartwright Interiors
Who’s Behind the Blog: Melinda Hartwright
Where are they: Southern Highlands, NSW
How often do they blog: Usually 1-2 times per month
What do they blog about: American style interiors, her home and latest projects she’s working on.
What we love: OMG her house is amazing – it’s even in Home Beautiful this month.
Blog: Alfresco Emporium Blog
Who’s Behind the Blog: Team Alfresco
Where are they: Sydney & the Gold Coast
How often do they blog: About once per week
What do they blog about: Decorating tips, new products in store and recipes.
What we love: We just love their styling. Is it wrong to want to live in their shop?
Blog: The Design Hunter
Who’s Behind the Blog: Team Design Hunter
Where are they: Sydney
How often do they blog: 1-2 times per month
What do they blog about: Interior design advice, projects they’re working on and new products in store.
What we love: We love seeing inside their latest Sydney projects
Non-Interiors Blogs You Might Also Like
These bloggers aren’t interiors bloggers as such but they’re still worth a read.
Kirsten & Co is hysterical and according to her blog tag line she’s 99.9% kale free. Kirsten is a lifestyle blogger who writes about fashion, food, and fun. She has a podcast and hosts cocktail hour on Facebook Live on Friday nights. Sometimes she even posts about her house, but that’s not the reason we love her.
Kat from The Organised Housewife will get your life sorted out for you. She shares tips and ideas for organising your house and your life to make it simpler. She also has cleaning tips, recipes and loads more on her blog.
Nikki from Styling You is your go to blog for everyday fashion style. She also lives in a beautiful old Queenslander and often features homewares such as her bed on clean sheets day. Anyone who has a thing for pillows and cushions is good by us.
Sonia from Life, Love and Hiccups is one of the nicest people I’ve met online, and I’m sure she’s a real hoot in person. She writes both personal and interiors stories on her blog, but you’ll also find her over at Little Lane Workshops hosting all sorts of creative workshops.
And Of Course, There’s Us
Blog: DIY Decorator (you’re here now)
Who’s Behind the Blog: Kylie Brady & Sam Johnstone. We don’t have any photos of the two of us together and Sam hates all the photos of herself, so there’s just a photo of me but we are a team, and we will get a team photo one day!
Where are they: Kylie’s in Brisbane & Sam’s on the Mornington Peninsula just outside Melbourne
How often do they blog: 3 times per week- Monday, Wednesday & Friday to be exact
What do they blog about: We cover 4 main topics – Room tours of real readers homes, stories that teach you how to decorate, DIY and craft projects to try, and stories about the latest shops, homewares and furniture that you may be looking for.
What we love: We love it when someone emails us or tags us on social media to show us how they’ve decorated, or something they bought or made that was inspired by reading our blog. It makes our day.
A Word of Praise to Bloggers
Blogging isn’t easy. It takes time to research a topic, photograph it, and formulate all your thoughts and ideas into an easy to read story. It takes even more effort to do it consistently, and build up an audience to read your posts.
So next time you’re reading a blog post, take 30 seconds to leave a comment to the author as a small token of appreciation for creating the content you are reading for free. Trust me, it will make their day 🙂
Now because as a blogger I’m suppose to end every blog post with a call to action, I want you to visit at least one of these blogs and show them some love.
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I'm Kylie, and I love to share practical home decorating and styling tips. I'm a qualified interior designer and self taught crafter and DIY'er. I'm addicted to decorating, and can't walk past a homewares shop without going in for a look. I live in a 1930's Queenslander in Brisbane's inner suburbs which I'm turning into a home one project at a time.