After discovering the benefits of using social bookmarking sites, one site in particular, Delicious, stood out with the potential to help other interior design enthusiasts. Delicious was founded in 2003 and currently has over five millions users with 150 million bookmarked URLs. By default, all bookmarks posted to Delicious are public and can be viewed by anyone.

Due to Delicious’ popularity and easy to understand and use interface, there were already a large variety of interior design sites bookmarked. To be exact, there were 34084 search results for “interior design.” To make it easier for visitors to sort through and decide which site to visit, every bookmark has tags attached. These tags help tell the Delicious user more about the site. Popular tags included: home, furniture, art, inspiration, apartment, green, environment, architecture, blog, magazine, shopping, décor, materials, reference and tools.

I personally found this site useful because many of the sites bookmarked were blogs about interior design. I had already discovered other inspiring blogs by blog rolls, but this social bookmarking site provided so many more options. One blog I found using Delicious is Desire to Inspire.

Desire to Inspire began in January of 2007 by two women with one main thing in common: an obsession with pictures of beautiful rooms. One women, Jo, in an interior designer from Australia. Kim is a “design junkie” from Canada. They found each other through a Flickr group and were inspired by another interior design blog, decor8 to start their own.

Since 2007, Jo and Kim have stayed true to the name of their blog. They have gathered quite a following from posting pictures of gorgeous rooms. Throughout the years, they have provided readers with pictures from all over the world with all different design aesthetics.

Today, they profiled New York based architect, Galo Verdesoto. Desire to Inspire praises Verdesoto for his clean, elegant, open and airy contemporary spaces.

Social bookmarking sites such as Delicious has opened up an entire new world for me to explore. The hours of “googling” are finally over!