r/interiordecorating: rules, karma requirements and posting culture
A million-member photo board for room help: paint, rugs, furniture placement, wall art. Easy to post in, kind in tone, with one hard rule against linking your own blog or design business.
Interior Decorating · Open on Reddit
- Members
- 1.1M
- Created
- 2011
- New posts a day
- 77.5
- Comments on a typical post
- 5
- New posts removed
- 2%
The short answer
r/interiordecorating publishes no karma or account age requirement, and almost nothing is filtered: about 98% of posts in our sample stayed up. Nine in ten posts are photos of a room with a question, and every post carries a flair such as Paint & Colors or Furniture Placement. The rules ask for details and pictures when you want help. The one thing that gets you banned is linking to your own blog or design business.
Who posts here
Posters say outright that they have no eye for design and ask for help with one room. Style terms show up now and then, but nothing is assumed, and replies are short, practical suggestions about colour, placement and lighting. A basic question is welcome as long as it comes with photos and some detail, which the rules ask for.
- Renters and students working around things they cannot change, like wall colour, tile or a tight budget.
- New homeowners deciding on paint, rugs, curtains and where the TV goes.
- Couples who disagree and want strangers to break the tie.
- People sharing a finished room or a before and after under the Showcase and Coming to Life flairs.
- Commenters with a good eye who answer with a specific fix, sometimes an edited photo.
Karma and account requirements
What it takes to get a post through in r/interiordecorating.
| Karma | Not stated publicly. Only about 2% of posts in our sample were removed by Reddit's filters, and none by moderators. |
|---|---|
| Account age | Not stated publicly. |
| Post flair | Every post in our sample had one. The most used are Find my Style, Paint & Colors, Rugs & Flooring, Coming to Life, Furniture Placement and Finishing Touches, each on roughly one post in eight or nine. |
| Help requests | Give details. The sidebar asks for pictures of the space and, if you can, a layout.Mods' wording: “Pictures of the space and potentially a layout are highly useful and will generate better responses.” |
| Links to your own site | Banned. No personal blog, no personal design website. The submit page repeats the warning before you post.Mods' wording: “Do not link to your personal blog, personal design website, or any other blog spam.” |
| Topic | Anything tied to interior decorating: questions, recommendations, rooms you like.Mods' wording: “your post must be related to interior design in some tangible way” |
What you can post
| Post type | Subreddit setting | Share of recent posts |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Allowed | 9% |
| Link | Allowed | 0% |
| Image | Allowed | 91% |
| Video | Allowed | <1% |
| Poll | Allowed | 0% |
Post flairs in use
- Find my Style 14%
- Paint & Colors 12%
- Rugs & Flooring 12%
- Coming to Life 12%
- Furniture Placement 11%
- Finishing Touches 11%
- Wall Art & Styling 9%
- Curtains & Blinds 6%
- Built-ins & Features 4%
- Showcase 3%
What happens to a new post
Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.
- Stayed up98%
- Removed by Reddit's filters2%
- Deleted by the author<1%
Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.
What happened when we posted here
We have posted here ourselves. This is how our own posts and comments fared.
- Stayed up
- 99%
- Removed by Reddit's filters
- 1%
- Removed by moderators
- 0%
- Period
- June 2026 to August 2026
The rules, in the mods' words
- 1
Subreddit Rules
Hello and thanks for joining r/interiordecorating! Few rules: 1- content must be related to interior decorating. You can post questions, share spaces you like, etc. 2- be nice to each other. Racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc will get you blocked 3- have fun and be yourself! xo
- 2
Content
- 3
Blog Spam
Do not post to your personal blog or design business. Such posts are spam and will result in your post being deleted and you being permanently banned.
- 4
Discrimination
Be nice and helpful! Racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc. will get you immediately banned.
These are the rules as archived in January 2025. Rules change. Check the sidebar before you post.
The culture
r/interiordecorating has about 1.1 million members, up from around 670,000 in 2024, and gets close to 80 posts a day. It is a help board. About 91% of posts are images, titles are around six words, and more than four in ten are questions. The typical post is a few photos of a room and a short paragraph on what feels wrong and what cannot be changed.
The flairs show what people ask about: finding a style, paint, rugs, furniture placement, wall art, curtains, finishing touches. Follow-up posts are common, with people coming back to thank commenters and show the small changes they made. The typical post gets about five comments, and comments are short, around 11 words.
Moderation is light and the tone rule is simple: be nice and helpful. Posters still brace for criticism, and some ask not to be bashed. The current friction is AI. People ask commenters to mock up a couch in their room, commenters reply with edited photos, and others call out posts they think are AI-made images fishing for engagement.
What lands
- Several photos of the real room with what you like, what you hate and what has to stay.
- A numbered choice between rugs, sofas or colours. Commenters answer with a number and one reason.
- A before and after of a first home done cheaply, with what made the difference.
- An update that thanks people and shows the changes made from their advice.
- A floor plan or rough mock-up for a placement question, even a crude one.
What gets removed or ignored
- Links to a personal blog or a design business. The rules say the post is deleted and the account permanently banned.
- Anything not related to interior decorating.
- Racism, sexism, homophobia or xenophobia in posts or comments, which the rules say means an immediate ban.
- We saw no moderator removals in our sample, so these come from the written rules, not from examples.
The unwritten rules
- Pick the flair that matches the question. Everyone does, and it is how people find the threads they like to answer.
- Say what your budget and limits are. Renters who mention the landlord will not allow paint get advice that works around it.
- A title that only says you need help is common but gives people nothing to click on. Name the room and the problem.
- Links in comments are rare, about one comment in fifty, and almost all are images. A product link from a new commenter stands out.
- Posting a rendering or an AI image as if it were your own room gets noticed and called out.
Self-promotion
The rule is blunt and appears three times: in the sidebar, in the rule list and on the submit page. Do not post your personal blog, design website or design business, or the post is deleted and you are banned. In practice the feed matches the rule. Posts are personal rooms and questions, and brand names appear only when someone says what they bought or asks for a recommendation. There is no tolerated route for promoting a service here. Helping in the comments as an ordinary member is the only kind of presence the place supports.
How people write here
- Typical post length
- 69 words
- Typical title length
- 6 words
- Titles phrased as a question
- 43%
- Typical comment length
- 11 words
- Comments that include a link
- 6%
- Posts that carry a flair
- 100%
When people post
- 0:00 UTC, 17
- 1:00 UTC, 24
- 2:00 UTC, 15
- 3:00 UTC, 13
- 4:00 UTC, 13
- 5:00 UTC, 10
- 6:00 UTC, 9
- 7:00 UTC, 7
- 8:00 UTC, 8
- 9:00 UTC, 14
- 10:00 UTC, 8
- 11:00 UTC, 12
- 12:00 UTC, 8
- 13:00 UTC, 12
- 14:00 UTC, 21
- 15:00 UTC, 19
- 16:00 UTC, 21
- 17:00 UTC, 33
- 18:00 UTC, 18
- 19:00 UTC, 39
- 20:00 UTC, 27
- 21:00 UTC, 15
- 22:00 UTC, 17
- 23:00 UTC, 20
New posts by hour of day, UTC.
Top keywords
The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/interiordecorating.
- room 169 posts
- wall 103 posts
- living room 84 posts
- rug 74 posts
- color 70 posts
- space 91 posts
- furniture 57 posts
- paint 53 posts
- bedroom 49 posts
- curtains 36 posts
- walls 44 posts
- couch 39 posts
- ideas 66 posts
- white 46 posts
- art 39 posts
- light 54 posts
- floor 39 posts
- table 41 posts
- look 78 posts
- style 39 posts
- kitchen 36 posts
- house 55 posts
- colors 29 posts
- painting 24 posts
- sofa 23 posts
- painted 22 posts
- decorating 21 posts
- colour 24 posts
- wood 25 posts
- decor 22 posts
- bed 34 posts
- suggestions 45 posts
- love 68 posts
- dining 27 posts
- photo 30 posts
- rugs 17 posts
- beige 17 posts
- warm 27 posts
- curtain 16 posts
- window 32 posts
Recurring topics: help, room, wall, color, living room, design, rug, space, style, help with.
Growth
- 201260
- 2013162
- 2014308
- 2015698
- 20162.1k
- 20174.8k
- 20189.4k
- 201918k
- 202059k
- 2021209k
- 2022325k
- 2023475k
- 2024673k
- 2025932k
- 20261.1M
Related subreddits
- r/interiordesignideas
- r/HomeDecorating
- r/InteriorDesign
- r/DesignMyRoom
- r/AmateurInteriorDesign
- r/InteriorDesignAdvice
- r/Home
- r/InteriorDesignHacks
- r/TattooDesigns
- r/Interior
Common questions
How much karma do you need to post in r/interiordecorating?
No requirement is published, and the numbers suggest a low bar. About 98% of posts in our sample stayed up, around 2% were removed by Reddit's own filters, and we saw no moderator removals.
Can I promote my design business or blog in r/interiordecorating?
No. The rules say not to post your personal blog or design business, and that doing so gets the post deleted and you permanently banned. The submit page shows the same warning before you post.
What flair should I use in r/interiordecorating?
Use the one that matches your question. Every post in our sample had a flair. The most common are Find my Style, Paint & Colors, Rugs & Flooring, Coming to Life, Furniture Placement and Finishing Touches, with Showcase for finished rooms.
What kind of posts work in r/interiordecorating?
Photo posts asking a specific question about one room. About 91% of posts are images and the typical post runs around 70 words. The sidebar asks for details, pictures of the space and a layout if you have one, and says that gets better responses.
Data as of October 4, 2026. Numbers come from public Reddit data (the Arctic Shift archive and GummySearch) sampled on this date. Removal share counts posts taken down by moderators, AutoModerator or Reddit's own filters. Banner and icon belong to the community. Moderators change rules without notice, so treat the sidebar as the final word.
