About Home Craft Blog

Home Craft Blog is an independent publication about decorating and maintaining a home, built on published specifications and standards.

What this publication is

Most home decor writing online is about how a room looks. This one is mostly about how a room is decided: which rug fiber survives a hallway, how many lumens a north-facing room needs, what a living room refresh costs line by line, how far a curtain rod should extend past the window frame. Those questions have answers that can be looked up, compared and cited, and that is the kind of writing published here.

Every guide is built from manufacturer specifications, product documentation, published standards and reference sources. Where a guide states a figure, a standard or a convention, it links to the source it came from so you can check it yourself.

Who edits it

Home Craft Blog is an independent publication, written in English for a mainly North American readership and run by an individual, independent publisher under the name Home Craft Blog, not by a media group. Every guide is edited by Clara, whose name is on each one. Clara is the pen name of the site’s owner. Guides are drafted with AI, and Clara reads and reviews every guide and edits and corrects anything wrong: facts, writing, measurements, product names, images.

Write to contact@homecraftblog.com, or by post to:

Home Craft Blog145 Tyee Dr, PMB 59462Point Roberts, WA 98281USA

What the guides are based on

• When a guide compares products, it compares published specifications and documented properties.
• The room images are illustrations made with AI for this publication. The diagrams are drawn from the measurements given in the text.
• No guide is sponsored, and no brand has paid for a mention.

How the guides get made

1. A subject is chosen because it involves a decision people get wrong and that has a checkable answer, usually a material, a measurement, a specification or a cost.
2. Manufacturer documentation, specification sheets, standards bodies and reference sources are read, and figures are recorded with the URL they came from.
3. The guide is drafted around the procedure a reader would actually follow, with the numbers written where they are needed rather than summarized at the end.
4. Figures and product names are checked against their sources before the guide is published.
5. Diagrams are drawn to match the figures used in the text, then the guide is published with its publication date shown.

Corrections

Prices move, product lines get discontinued, and sources get revised. If you find something on this site that is wrong, out of date, or missing a source it should have, please tell us. Corrections are made to the guide itself rather than buried in a note, and material corrections update the guide's modified date.

Write to contact@homecraftblog.com or use the contact form. A person reads every message.

The sister site

The same publisher also runs blog.homecraftblog.com, a sister site with its own editorial approach: AI-assisted decorating ideas and room-by-room inspiration, published more often and in a lighter format. The guides here are the longer-form reference material, built around measurements, specifications and costs. The sister site carries affiliate links and discloses them on its own affiliate disclosure page; this site does not.

Advertising

This site uses Google AdSense display advertising. Advertisers have no input into what is published. Advertisements are marked as advertising, and no guide is written to suit an advertiser. How advertising affects your data is described in the privacy policy and the cookie policy.