Interior Design Subject Guide

Has information regarding design and practicing architecture, especially useful with the news articles about current issues.

Extensive glossary for all things architecture; including architecture a-z, designers a-z, picture dictionaries, acronyms, and a variety of glossaries.

RIBA library catalog provides a free index to journal articles, books, drawings, and photographs.

Resources about architecture, along with art/architecture libraries, programs, journals, information, and exhibitions.

This database is a collection of historic images that represents the medieval monuments and cities of the Kingdom of Sicily collected from museums, libraries, archives and publications.

Information regarding many aspects of architecture, construction, culture, heritage, housing, interior design, landscape, planning, regeneration, sustainability, transport, and urban design.

Sweets is the building product source for AEC professionals (Architects, Contractors, and Engineers). It has comprehensive product information, CAD details, BIM objects, specs, catalogs, galleries, green product information, CEUs and more.

This site provides a database of entries into the World Architecture Festival.

An internet site with links to hundreds of museum sites and image archives.

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels.

You can search the Met's image collection available online. Over 400,000 images are posted and you can search by object type which includes Furniture as a limiter. You can also limit by place and time period as well.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries. When you go to the Artists search at the top of the homepage, there are many helpful ways to limit your search.

This entire site is devoted to how different colors affect people uniquely, and how choosing the correct color can affect the design process significantly.

Links to many websites concerning decorative arts and material culture; includes documents, images, and other resources.

This site lists a large library of art resources, all organized by periods in time and by different cultures.

Variety of articles about all aspects of environmental building.

This is a government regulated website regarding the benefits and methods that go along with green building.

Provides a wide range of information about sustainable architecture and natural building, focusing on keeping all building green.

Inhabitat.com is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.

LEED is a leading advocate for green building, and therefore this websites provides all you need to know regarding green building.

Non-profit organization focused on sustainable building design and construction; provides a list of resources organized by type of building.

Provides everything lighting designers need to know.

Offers articles and reports on lighting in various spaces.

This site gives a variety of essays and pictures regarding the history of furniture styles not only from different eras, but also from all around the world.

Dozens of articles about the interior decoration of contemporary homes. The "Design Styles" section features information about different styles of designs.

On the Publications tab, free articles are available from the IIDA concerning many aspects of design.

The forum and blogs available on this site are extremely useful to see a variety of attitudes towards architecture and design.

Under the ‘practice types’ tab, there is an extensive lists of all different elements of interior design.

All you need to know about remodeling.

This website gives guidelines and recommendations for building types, design objectives, and other interior design related topics.

Provides extensive and thorough information about the design of kitchens and bathrooms.

This provides credible news articles about Interior Design and Home Furnishing.

Resources on design guidance, project management, and operations from a "whole buildings" perspective.

A Canadian and an Australian trying to inspire the world one room at a time.

Eddie Ross is the East Coast Editor of Better Homes & Gardens. He has worked as a design, decorating and food editor for House Beautiful, Martha Stewart Living and Food Network. He has a book now, available in the library, called Modern Mix.

Emily Henderson is stylist, interior designer, TV host, and Editor in Chief of this blog.

Local Designer Jamie Meares blog I Suwannee. In 2009, as an extension of her popular lifestyle blog, Meares opened Furbish Studio, a charming light-filled shop in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Habitually Chic is author Heather Clawson's wildly popular blog about the finer things in life—high fashion, fine art, interior design, and arresting architecture.

SingleBubblePop Design Studio was founded in 2010 and has delivered staging, full-service design, renovations and custom furniture solutions to clients in both Georgia and North Carolina.

The New York Times style magazine.