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Does anyone actually read my blog?

Your friends and family keep you on your toes and often unwittingly provide great fodder for blog posts! They also cause a scattered examination of conscience. Two recent questions about my blogging ( I have a painting blog and a home decorating blog) got me thinking about my purpose and audience, and the time I invest in this activity. This post is about Designing Home blog

Audience
I am happy to report that people do indeed read Designing Home blog. Since I began it almost three years ago, I've had over .25 million page views. That surprised even me because I originally began to write this blog with a local audience in mind. I couldn't be further from the mark.

My readership is 6 times larger in the United States than Canada. Canada, Great Britian, Australia and Germany are almost tied in interest. Only a small percentage of readers are actually from Newfoundland. No doubt it is a global village.

Topics
I am glad that my original prediction about audience was correct. The average homeowner appears to welcome clear information about basic decorating issues. You now, the kind of questions you have if you live in an average size home and decorate with a modest budget. Personally that means a very modest budget layered with a lot of DIY. While I write about other topics that appeal to smaller audiences, I try to keep my focus "sensible". Here are the top five posts on Designing Home:

10 Tips for decorating a small living room 75522 page views May 2, 2012, 38 comments Houzz
10 Design Solutions for Small Bedrooms 26956 page views Mar 17, 2011, 10 comments
Current trends in window treatments 17163 page views Mar 4, 2012, 16 comments Lisa Ferguson via Houzz
5 Window Treatments for Patio Doors 9914 page views Jun 14, 2011, 9 comments
Mark English Architects, AIA via Houzz 5 Reasons to have an accent wall 8484 page views Jan 30, 2011

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It appears that many people have issues with small rooms and are looking for creative ways to use space. Window treatments, accent walls and hanging light fixtures are topics that everyone thinks about.

Purpose
Why would I use a chunk of my valuable time to write?

The biggest joke of all is I don't actually enjoy writing. I find it labour intensive and a clumsy way to provide knowledge although I am an avid reader. I am definitely a face to face communicator who needs the visual signals of my audience to be completely comfortable. It comes from years of teaching both children and adults. I am also a huge synthesizer. I like to get things down to the bare bones quickly. A colleague once told me I write like a machine gun. I am obviously not a highly verbal person - I am a doer.

But.... I love to organize and share information. It just makes me happy. The learner/ synthesizer function wins.

Blogging also provides a forum to research questions or problems that arise as I work with clients. It has expanded my horizons in so many ways when it comes to interior design. The design community is diverse and blogging keeps me in touch with trends from around the world. That is a necessity when you live on an island where attitudes can tend toward the provincial and predictable.

Blogging increases your credibility. When you have a blog /website as I do, you have a showcase for your understanding of design issues and people can anonymously " check you out". There are lots of lurkers out there from my stats. 2542 people checked out my portfolios , 798 read my design statement and 540 wanted to know more about me.

Yes, people are reading my blog. It serves its purpose.

Signing out from my not so decorative small computer space....

As you can see, I live in a very average space and I am also a little sloppy at times. Why I have a pair of pliers on my desk is a mystery. This desk came from a contractor friend who renovated a university residence. The walls are BM CC 460 inukshuk and the desk is painted BM HC 69 whitall brown. The resident carpenter built the bookcase to fit the equipment.

And more aqua

This must be aqua week! I am noticing it everywhere. After writing a post yesterday about aqua, I opened one of the blogs I follow this morning to be greeted by a lovely room make -over by Kelly Porter of Color Sizzle and the walls are painted aqua. The accents are red. I wanted to share this lively combination. While it is too much colour for me, I know it will appeal to lots of my readers.

Pillow and lamp love on my part!

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And another living room with the same colour scheme, but the colours are used in a very understated way. It is all about the intensity of the hues.

Which room would you be most comfortable in?

modern white gold sheepskin dream

modern white gold sheepskin dream

May I suggest aqua?

Although I am interested in the latest colour trends in home decor, I am not a slave to them. I choose gray as the neutral in my house in 1986 and it wasn't a growing trend until 2011! It will still be my neutral ten years from now because I feel comfortable with gray as a backdrop.

We should all choose colours for our homes that we like. My first order of business in a colour consultation is to determine what kind of colours a client really likes. Next I check the room's light orientation and lastly I look at the furniture and art in a space.

I just went through all my pins on my colour inspiration board on Pinterest to look for trends in my own pinning. I have quite a few with aqua. I do not have aqua in either of my homes, but I am obviously attracted to it because I love blue greens. How about you?

Aqua is a versatile, fresh colour as you can see from the interiors below. You can use it for an accent wall, to paint furniture, in pillows, or even on a ceiling....use a little or a lot....

Aqua as an accent wall with lots of cream is stunning.

A more intense aqua with citron green and a pop of magenta... perfect for a teen's room!

Serene gray with aqua accessories.

The same scheme as above with black added.

Aqua and white with a hit of darker blue.

And who wouldn't want to have a chat in this sun room? Creamy white mixed with green and aqua is so fresh and inviting.

Just loving the hit of red with aqua in this boy's space. I think aqua is the perfect colour to paint a piece of furniture and look at those shutters!