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Bungalow Inspiration

Heather, a houseblogger from the L.A.-based 1912 Bungalow, has assembled a really lovely collection of bungalow-inspired images on the 1912 Bungalow Flickr account. Definitely worth a look-see!

Posted on 01/22 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Houseblogosphere: This Past Week

Shoestring Cottage gathers inspiration from her continent of Africa in making plans for the design of her cottage.

Of priorities, budgeting and house bling...courtesy of 1912 Bungalow.

Casa Hartman breaks on through to the other side, finds a hidden space, gains storage possibilities.

This Old Crack House finishes up its series about shellac, a lovely and forgiving product to use.

Enon Hall impresses me once again. Is there anything that Bill can't build?

Ditto for Nick and his dad at Pigeon Point Project. Dang!

Double ditto for Building a Timberframe Home from Scratch. You were on the roof? In the rain? On SLATE?

Foxcroft rescues his neighbor from a man-eating bathroom.

Reyes Point works with stone. NOLA Ranch works with stoners.

1900 Farmhouse sings an ode to mortising.

Our Tiny Oak Park Bungalow gives in to experimenting with color.

Stay BACK! The Big Orange House has everything under control!

Housebloggers Halloween Round-Up courtesy of obsessive tagging of blog entries.

Casa Decrepit's description of weeding the lavendar made me shiver with the remembered pleasure of the scent of lavendar.

Posted on 11/06 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Interesting Posts This Past Week

Brilliant idea for decorating a house for Halloween from Erwin House. Behold! The House-A-Lantern!

Greg at Petch House invites us to "stick a fork in the second story of the house" 'cause he's done painting it!

(more after the jump)

Bearfort Lodge gets one up on Martha Stewart with his very cool painted steps.

Speaking of steps, Bill at Enon Hall gets a leg up to his second floor by building his own steps. He is my new renovation hero!

This post at 1620 Timber Frame has me wondering just how many staircases are they hiding in there?

Bunglehome relays a tall of Halloween TERROR!

yonked muses philosophically about the ethics of shelter.

Steve at Chicago Two-Flat designs a lovely wrought iron railing with a Craftsman design for the exterior of the house.

The Emery Restoration starts to head down a slippery slope and learns to "take it like a man." :)

And finally, the Home Improvement Ninja came back long enough to entertain us with a story from his "lost blog episodes."

Posted on 10/30 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Welcome Edmonton Journal Readers!

Today this site and many of our members were featured in an article on the front page of the the 'At Home' section of the Edmonton Journal. Congrats to the many Canadian housebloggers who were mentioned!

If you're visitng our site for the first time, welcome! You can find more information about our site here. We'd love to have you share your own house photos and stories by registering as a member too!

Posted on 10/19 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

What else do we know about housebloggers?

What else can we determine about housebloggers from our Member Profiles tag cloud?

If you own a bungalow, you are in luck! At least 65 housebloggers make a bungalow their home.

At least 30 housebloggers live in a Victorian house, in an array of styles.

You like Ranches? We've got ranches. Over 20 ranches.

Are you getting into new construction? Are you an owner-builder? Yup, that's in there.

There are foursquares. There are two-flats. There are 1st timers.

Green building? Eco-friendly living? Solar? Strawbale? Yes, yes, yes and yes.

(more tomorrow...)

(p.s. Are you a houseblogger? Is there an important tag missing from your Profile? Sign in and check out your profile and add the tags that are missing if you want to get to know other housebloggers who can relate to your home improvement pain...)

The lovely blue house? It's the Victorian Italianate from Fixer-Upper!

Posted on 10/02 | Comments (1) | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

houseblogs.net STATS!

Today, I finished something that I had become obsessed with (when am I NOT obsessed about something?) I entered profile tags for every houseblogger profile in the houseblogs.net registry. I work in Knowledge Management so I get a little energized (ahem) about organizing data.

When I was finished, what did I find? Lots of interesting stuff.

-There are housebloggers in the directory from 4 out of 7 continents...North America, Europe, Africa and Australia. (There are some who aren't represented by a continent proper, like our houseblogger in New Zealand.)

-There are 19 housebloggers in Canada, representing 7 provinces

-There are a whole lot of housebloggers in the United States (I couldn't count them all), representing 41 out of 50 states. (You'll have to look them up by state.)

-Housebloggers in Europe represent 4 countries.

-Housebloggers in Australia represent 3 states.

-Morocco is currently our sole rep from North Africa.

-I couldn't locate at LEAST 14 housebloggers, probably more.

Most popular North American locations according to tags?

-California
-New York
-Illinois
-Washington State

You'll have to double check my work. I had a few hundred houseblogs to comb through and not a lot of time to do this so I'm sure that there are mistakes. If there is a mistake for your own profile, go ahead and edit your profile tags. If it is a mistake in the profile of another houseblogger? Drop me a line at jm (at) houseblogs (dot) net.

(more fun stats tomorrow...)

Posted on 10/01 | Comments (1) | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

houseblogs.net in the Associated Press

Welcome to any new readers who have wandered in by way of the Associated Press article by Jocelyn Noveck. We're happy that you found us! Please make yourself at home.

You can browse through 300+ houseblogs, check out the latest entries, catch up on the latest discussions, or look for specific content by perusing our tag clouds--for blog entries and for profiles. If you register as a member, you can also create a personalized page of your favorite houseblogs and their entries. (You don't have to have a houseblog in order to be a member of houseblogs.net and membership is gratis. We don't harvest, sell, fold, spindle, staple or mutilate member information, so your data is safe with us.)

And if working on your own house, condo, apartment, tent or igloo, consider starting a houseblog!

Posted on 09/20 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Enon Hall Responds to Old House Journal

Editor-in-Chief, Gordon Bock, wrote an interesting column about houseblogging in the July/August issue of Old House Journal which kicked up some dust in the houseblogging world. (grin)

In this month's issue, Bill from Enon Hall wrote an extremely thoughtful letter to the editor and it was published! You can read Bill's take on Mr. Bock's column in the Enon Hall forum...

Posted on 08/31 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Secret Room Discovered!!!

Oh man. This is my DREAM! To find a secret room in this house or ANY house. 1901 House found a secret room behind a closet. That's too cool...

ADDED: A few of us mentioned in the comments that we've dreamt about such a find in our own houses. Fixer-Upper did some research back in 2005 to decode the meaning of dreams where you discover new rooms in your house.

Posted on 08/17 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Two New Houseblogs...from Domino Magazine!

Today we're proud to point out that two new blogs have joined houseblogs.net, both from Domino magazine.

Like all houseblogs, the two new members each focus on the homes of their authors:

Both blogs are now listed in the houseblogs directory and excerpts from their writing will begin showing up in the recent entries list.

As we've said before, we're excited to see professional journalists blogging about their homes. We look forward to their contributions to this site.

Catherine and Thaddeus - welcome! :-)

Posted on 07/24 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

 

The remainder of the archive is presented here in condensed form. To read any entry simply click on the date below each headline.

 

Welcome Our Two Latest Houseblogs...from This Old House!

Posted on 07/09 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Welcome Washington Post Readers!

Posted on 04/21 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

New Blog: PrairieMod

Posted on 03/17 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

A Mobile Houseblog!

Posted on 12/17 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Old House and Housebloggers Meetup

Posted on 09/29 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

American Castle, Anyone?

Posted on 09/15 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in Houseblogging

Posted on 09/04 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in Housebloging

Posted on 08/28 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Last Week in Houseblogging

Posted on 08/22 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in Houseblogging

Posted on 08/14 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Hello, Minneapolis-St. Paul!

Posted on 08/13 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in Houseblogging

Posted on 07/31 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in Houseblogging

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This Week in Houseblogging

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This Week in Houseblogging

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This Week in Houseblogging

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This Week in Houseblogging

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Solar Power Installation Blog

Posted on 06/20 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in Houseblogging

Posted on 06/17 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in Houseblogging

Posted on 06/10 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Two Weeks in Houseblogging

Posted on 06/04 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Fun with Flickr: Mini-Houseblogs!

Posted on 06/01 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in Houseblogging

Posted on 05/20 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in Houseblogging

Posted on 05/13 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in HouseBlogging

Posted on 05/06 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

This Week in HouseBlogs

Posted on 04/29 | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging

Houseblogs and the New House Voyeurism

Posted on 02/12 | Comments (2) | Filed under Headlines : Houseblogging