Do you find yourself staring idly at your house wondering how in the world you’re going to make it beautiful? Or do you just love to peek into other people’s homes to see what they use to decorate?

Are you just fascinated by beautiful photos of great architecture? Do you love ingenious furniture design? Are you fascinated by people who make small spaces habitable? Thinking of renovating?

Whatever draws you to the world of architecture and interior design, there are plenty of great blogs out there ready to provide you with your daily dose. Here is a list of five of the best blogs around to show you beautiful interior design ideas and architectural designs.

1. Dezeen

Dezeen “” short for Design Magazine “” has an architectural focus, covering new trends in architecture. However, it also often features furniture, lighting and transport. There’s a clear environmentally-friendly slant, with a whole section dedicated to green design. The pictures on this blog are bright and beautiful, leaving readers drawn to the fascinating structures it shows.

2. Desire To Inspire

If you’re after just interior design ideas, Desire to Inspire is a fabulous place to start. This blog is run by two girls who have never met, each with an eye for the perfect room. Whether it be rustic, modern, formal or casual, these girls will find it and feature it. The beautiful photography and interior design featured in this blog will fill you with the urge to redecorate.

3. Decor8

Decor8 is very focused on interior design ideas, featuring plenty of neat household decorations and entire rooms decorated to a theme. There are also plenty of photographs of simple stylistic things you could do to brighten up a section of your house. Decor8 also create great collages of photos when there are too many to choose from!

4. Apartment Therapy

Apartment Therapy is about how to design the interior of your entire house, how to live in small spaces and great ways to brighten up your house. The beautiful photography features complete rooms, sets of pillows, DIY furniture and crafty ideas you can imitate easily. When they find a house worth displaying in its entirety, they write a full feature article on the home and offer a gallery tour, showing many more photos of the house.

5. Freshome

Freshome “” a combination of the words Fresh + Home “” is a blog focused entirely on architectural and interior design ideas. The blog’s beautiful pictures will captivate your imagination and fire up your home planning ideas. There are also plenty of great how-to guides to help you make the most of your space.

Architecture Blog Tumblr

The Architecture Blog Tumblr is quite addictive for architecture-lovers. There’s no formal articles written, and they merely re-publish photos of great architecture, but that’s what makes it great. As always on Tumblr, readers can click through to the original articles and see more. So this makes it a great way to quickly browse some great photos and dig deeper if you’re really interested.

Plus, this Tumblr is curated by someone with great taste in both architecture and photography. It’s bound to give you some great architectural ideas! There’s no need to be a Tumblr user “” just follow the RSS feed or browse away.

Tell us your favourite blogs

If your favourite architecture or interior design blog isn’t listed, then please let us know in the comments. There can never be enough!