About Home Craft Blog

Home Craft Blog is an independent editorial publication about decorating and maintaining a home. It is written and published from research, not from a design practice.

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 writes it

Home Craft Blog is an independently owned publication, not part of a media group, and it publishes in English for a mainly North American readership. It is a very small operation: the same person sets the editorial direction, commissions the research and answers the email. Software tools, including AI writing and research assistants, are used in drafting and checking guides, and every guide is reviewed before it is published.

There is deliberately no author persona on these guides. We are not going to invent a designer with twenty years of experience, and we are not going to attribute research to a staff we do not have. Guides are published under the name of the publication, and the publication is accountable for them. If you want to know who to hold responsible for something published here, the answer is the person who answers maya@homecraftblog.com.

What we do not do

• We do not run a laboratory and we do not perform durability, wear or acoustic testing. When a guide compares products, it is comparing published specifications and documented properties, and it says so.
• We do not photograph client projects, because there are no clients. The room images on this site are original illustrative imagery generated for this publication rather than photographs of real homes, and they illustrate a subject rather than document a project. The diagrams are drawn in-house from the measurements given in the text.
• We do not publish paid placements, sponsored guides, or gifted-product reviews. Nothing on this site has been paid for by a brand.
• We do not state psychological, medical or scientific claims without a source. If a claim of that kind is not linked to a real reference, it does not get published.

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. The draft is checked against its own sources. Named products are confirmed to exist and to be currently sold. Anything that cannot be confirmed is removed or replaced with a generic description.
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 maya@homecraftblog.com or use the contact form. A person reads every message.

The other site

We also publish Home Craft Blog daily at blog.homecraftblog.com, a higher-frequency site covering room-by-room decor ideas and inspiration. This site is the longer-form, reference end of the same publication.

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