thank you to the wall street journal for including design*sponge in their june 9, 2008 “blogwatch” article.

click here for the full article.

“DESIGN SPONGE
DesignSpongeOnline.com

Grace Bonney runs this site, which claims 30,000 daily readers and was featured on “Good Morning America” in April. With multiple posts a day, this blog offers an abundance of ideas for decorating every corner of living space. Readers can navigate the site by design category, such as accessories, furniture or lighting. The site is also broken up by trends, including polka dots, glass lamps and modern floral.

Colorful photos of products, rooms and before-and-after design makeovers anchor every post. After a recent trip to Los Angeles, Ms. Bonney wrote: “For me, beachy themes tend to run to two extremes: cool, Mediterranean blues and rich warm tones.” She includes in the post a collage of products that she thinks suit each theme.

The site also offers podcast interviews with designers, as well as design guides for various cities, which include tips on where to shop for everything from furniture to clothes and often branch out to include general tourism suggestions such as museums, restaurants and historic sites. And for readers who want to go beyond shopping and create their own decor, Design Sponge offers dozens of do-it-yourself projects.”