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Home-decor-a.k.a. shelter-magazines continue to fold, so get your design fix with these essential local blogs.*
* You know, in addition to your addiction to Apartmenttherapy.com.
Strange Closets
If you’ll miss the voyeuristic peeks into well-decorated homes in Domino (R.I.P. March 2009), you’ll love the Open House posts on strangeclosets.com.
The blogger Tate Gunnerson started Strange Closets out of his Edgewater home in February 2008. “I had a few ideas and thought it’d be a good way to exercise my creative chops—which were getting pretty flabby after ten years selling IT stuff,” Gunnerson says. Little did he know the blog would take off: He’s since quit his day job to pursue a career in freelance writing and photography. Guest bloggers (such as Top Design alum John Gray) occasionally contribute to the site.
What he covers While Gunnerson loves design, he’s more focused on meeting interesting people, getting to know them and telling their stories through their spaces, things and passions. “Writing the typical product posts and scanning in magazine articles got boring very quickly,” he says. “So I transitioned to 100 percent original content [which includes coining new design terms, see “Buzzword”], mostly weekly home tours, interviews and short profiles of independently owned shops.”
