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I may very well be obsessed with The Selby and often fantasize about what it would be like to live in a little loft in New York, with a brickwalled living space, high ceilings and windows and a fire escape. There is some serious eye candy over there, a lot of mismatched and quirky homes — pictures of which reside in my inspiration folder.

But when it comes to home decor and ideas, my inspiration mainly wells from these little gems:

• Design*Sponge
  The ultimate classic! Home decor ideas, sneak peeks, before & afters, city guides…Design*Sponge has everything. Not to mention their great Biz Ladies series! Definitely worth a look if you’ve never been around ;)

• Desire to Inspire
  

  Kim and Jo have never met but there is a bond between them that is so strong that it can cross half the world and back again. You see Kim and Jo are interior design junkies. They go weak at the knees when they find that perfect room and they just have to share. It all started towards the end of 2006. They met on Flickr, shared images they had bookmarked and well that was that. Desire to Inspire was born.

  Stunning and dreamy interiors for everyone! Mid-century, modern, ethnic, eco-design, DIY’s and so many more (my favorites to see are usually Scandinavian and anything workspace related! I’m a big nerd at heart, didn’t you know!)

• Coco+Kelley
  

  Exploring trends in tabletop, fashion, decor and color, the blog quickly grew and began receiving praise from national magazine editors and loyal readers who described the content as chic, charming, and original. After several readers approached her to design their own homes and weddings, Cassandra seized the opportunity and officially opened coco+kelley as a styling company in her hometown of Seattle, Wash.

  Coco+Kelley is literally an aesthetic feast, you’ll find your Inspiration folder bursting at the seams from all the lovely little gems you’ll be collecting from here!

• Sfgirlbybay
  

  sfgirlbybay is a san francisco based blogger, hopeful photographer, design junkie and bonafide flea market queen. victoria smith is editor/writer of sfgirlbybay, one of the West Coast’s leading interior design blogs, featuring new product reviews, shopping tips, including art, photography and design resources, as well as home entertaining and lifestyle stories, with a loyal fan base and readers that include top magazine and newspaper editors, shoppers, and industry professionals.

  Need I say more? Another classic, in my opinion. Click Click!

What are your favorite places to go to for interior eye candy? Your favorite interior?

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts — Sign hanging in Albert Einstein’s office at Princeton.

Even after all this time,
the sun never says to the earth,
“You owe me.”
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.

— Hafiz

I found this beautiful quote scribbled in one of my notebooks. Go on, add it to your own collection. Starting tomorrow it will be up on my wall.

Le Love has been around for quite a while now, and when I first stumbled upon it a year ago, I thought it was the cutest thing ever. I also wondered why I (or anyone, for that matter) hadn’t come up with something like that sooner — a blog dedicated to love images and stories. Boyfriends, girlfriends, friends, long distance, unrequited love, self love. It’s all in there, and I…love it!

It might seem mushy and cliched, but Le Love is more a weekend visit; a surge of lovely inspiration that may make you want to get the courage to talk to someone, or to tell them how much they mean to you, or drag them outside to take your own photo. It can’t not produce happiness, or a little fuzzy feeling, in my eyes at least!

What do you think of Le Love? Cute? …Sickeningly cute?