Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 11:16     Subject: I miss blogs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No suggestions but I agree with you


Me too! I used to love Emily Henderson but all she does now is hawk everything under the sun and her focus turned to collecting material goods. I started to follow one young woman redoing her kitchen. She had this impressive set up of construction equipment and tools. But then every 15 minutes of video she’d break into a sales pitch for some cheesy makeup brush that had nothing to do at all with DIY, remodeling or construction. It was bizarre!


In the movie the Truman show Truman is talking to his wife and she randomly starts hawking products in the kitchen and he is like “wtf is going on?” because he doesn’t know his whole life is a sham.

We are all Truman now.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 11:05     Subject: I miss blogs
As a DIY type person, I can’t imagine how much time it takes to document each project with photos, measurements and steps explaining every aspect. Some bloggers will add in where they had mishaps/mistakes and how they handled it. Hats off to the good ones.

Are you familiar with addicted2decorating.com? This lady is re-doing her entire house and her process very thorough.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 08:54     Subject: I miss blogs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yeah i love free content too.
Time to suck it up and get a subscriprion to Dwell or whatever your style is


OP here, it wasn't free content, they made money from advertisements and product placement. They just worked a little harder for it.


It was at no charge to you right? That's free. And obviously that model stopped making money for bloggers so that's why they stopped.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 08:51     Subject: I miss blogs
I’m sure Emily Henderson is just trying to make her business work.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 08:31     Subject: I miss blogs
Anonymous wrote:Yeah i love free content too.
Time to suck it up and get a subscriprion to Dwell or whatever your style is


NP and I miss blogs too, not about being free. I’ve had magazine subscriptions over the years and there is “platform decay” (as another PP termed it) there too. There is lack of variety and most content even in magazines is just add and shopping. Even interviews tend to be ads or shopping related. I miss more interesting content.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 04:56     Subject: I miss blogs
Everyone is hawking their favorite Amazon products these days. I guess it’s the only way they make money. Either accept the product link or goto the website yourself if you want to purchase. Sometimes, I approach my individual dilemma from google. For example, how to update a brick fireplace and then, you can sift thru the hits.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 04:10     Subject: I miss blogs
Anonymous wrote:No suggestions but I agree with you


Me too! I used to love Emily Henderson but all she does now is hawk everything under the sun and her focus turned to collecting material goods. I started to follow one young woman redoing her kitchen. She had this impressive set up of construction equipment and tools. But then every 15 minutes of video she’d break into a sales pitch for some cheesy makeup brush that had nothing to do at all with DIY, remodeling or construction. It was bizarre!
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 01:33     Subject: I miss blogs
Anonymous wrote:I used to really love Emily Henderson and now it’s hard to get through. Same with younghouselove

I agree apartment therapy, Pinterest and houzz are good for pretty pictures and ideas.

I do remember the early 2010s heyday of blogs. They were just amazing.


These days, anyone who isn't monetizing is gatekeeping. Go to any random FB group around parenting, fashion, whatever. People are constantly hounding others for information while disclosing nothing of use to others.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 23:55     Subject: Re:I miss blogs
You might try YouTube. I don’t have any specific channels to recommend, but you can find longer videos than TikToks that will consequently go into more depth. They have videos on every subject (including home improvement and decorating) at every level from expert to hobbyist to complete novice.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 23:50     Subject: I miss blogs
Anonymous wrote:In the heyday of decorating/design blogging, there was so much more variety in style. It was fun to page through the posts every morning on Google Reader (RIP!).



YES this is a lot of it. Everything now is exactly the same - beige, greige, modern farmhouse, maybe some rustic stuff, but all of the influencers are fed by the same companies that literally send them lists of products to choose from, so of course they all look the same.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 21:57     Subject: I miss blogs
I used to really love Emily Henderson and now it’s hard to get through. Same with younghouselove

I agree apartment therapy, Pinterest and houzz are good for pretty pictures and ideas.

I do remember the early 2010s heyday of blogs. They were just amazing.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 13:31     Subject: I miss blogs
In the heyday of decorating/design blogging, there was so much more variety in style. It was fun to page through the posts every morning on Google Reader (RIP!).

Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 21:51     Subject: I miss blogs
I like Ugly Duckling House for DIY instructions. She taught me so much!
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 20:03     Subject: I miss blogs
Anonymous wrote:Yeah i love free content too.
Time to suck it up and get a subscriprion to Dwell or whatever your style is


OP here, it wasn't free content, they made money from advertisements and product placement. They just worked a little harder for it.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 16:27     Subject: I miss blogs
I've done a ton of DIY from https://www.thespruce.com/