Featured Story: In Praise of the Victorian Home

Victorian housebloggers like Fixer-Upper get some attention in the latest issue of Victorian Home magazine.

In the February issue of Victorian Home magazine, a two page article entitled "Preserving the Preservation Experience" gives a nice overview of houseblogging and highlights several Victorian housebloggers who are members of Houseblogs.net.



The article is one of the best treatments of houseblogging that we've seen, including thoughtful interviews with several writers about why they do it.  They even include a very nice sidebar piece with tips on starting a houseblog.  It goes goes beyond the basic 'use Blogger' advice to even provide tips on how to develop a unique writing style and attract an audience.

The sites featured in the article were Fixer Upper, The Devil Queen, Victorian Restoration, This Old Crack House, To Restore a House in Churchill, Richmond, Virginia, Casa Decrepit and Petch House.

 Houseblogs.net was also mentioned as being "a lot like a support group" which both makes us laugh and also feels kinda right.

You can read more via the blog entries referencing the story (click the link in the yellow box below).

If you're visiting Houseblogs.net for the first time after reading the article, you might also enjoy checking out the Victorian topic page.  From there you can see all the latest blog entries specifically about Victorian homes, blog entries by housebloggers who own Victorians, and related discussions from our forum.

Congrats to all the Victorian housebloggers on a nice write-up and thanks for the great contributions you each make through sharing your stories!  :-)

Thought I would mention that our houseblog neighbors, Fixer-Upper,  M and C build a house, and 1916 Bungalow are in the spring 2008 issue of Cottages and Bungalows magazine. 
I scanned the article, but couldn't get it to Post. ?

I love the coverage, and the fact that blogging is being highlighted as a great resource for homeowners. Reading other blogs gave me the courage to tackle things I never would have otherwise. (Thanks, Jeannie and Aaron!!) I just wish we were blowing up when we were doing more projects at the house - I hate to see people come to the site and get disappointed! I gotta get organizing the archives or something!