Following on from our Redecorating Your Home – The Best Online Resources blog post, we thought we would give you added inspiration while you’re redecorating your house. If you’ve had a clear out and decided to store some belongings while you refresh the house, or even re-do the place entirely, look to the design blogs below to tickle the right side of your brain.

decor8 – Holly Becker, a freelance journalist and design consultant launched decor8 in January 2006 long before design blogs became a trusted and popular source of information on the web. An established site known as a reliable design resource to over 35,000 daily readers, decor8 (a creative play on the word decorate) is dedicated to sharing honest opinions, fresh decorating ideas, beautiful interior spaces, independent art and design, products and services, and articles meant to inspire readers to live a more fulfilling, authentic and creative life.

Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. Launched in August of 2004, Design*Sponge was declared a “Martha Stewart Living for the Millennials” by the NYTimes in 2008 and features store and product reviews, city, product, and gift guides, DIY projects, before & after furniture and home makeovers, hometours, recipes, videos and podcasts, and trend forecasting. The site is updated constantly throughout the day (with an average of 6-10 posts a day), and attracts a core group of devoted readers.

Made in England is written by Cookie – a designer, illustrator and occasional adventurer. His goal is to make things visually interesting and generally creative, and the blog is where the best of what he finds is showcased.