Ever burned an entire weekend fixing something that should’ve taken maybe an hour, and come out the other side with strong opinions about it? That’s basically who we’re looking for.
This site exist because so much home improvement content online reads like it was written by someone who’s never actually held a drill Every project sound effortless every tutorial assumes a garage stocked with tool nobody actually owns and nobody ever mentions the part where you made three separate trips to the hardware store because you measured wrong the first time around Good home improvement writing admits things that the drywall patch looked awful for the first two coats that the “easy weekend project somehow ate up eleven day That kind of honesty is rarer than it should be and a small team like ours can’t cover every house every budget every disaster on its own. Which is really the whole point of this page.
Maybe you renovated a kitchen on a shoestring budget and learned most of it the hard way Maybe you rent and have gotten unreasonably good at low commitment fixes that won’t upset a landlord. Or maybe you just have very specific opinions about which power tools are worth buying and which ones sit in a drawer collecting dust If any of that’s you send us something.
A contractor’s license isn’t required here and neither is a design degree Honestly some of the pieces we’re proudest of came from people who’d never written for anyone before in their life they just had a project worth talking about and were willing to sit with a draft until it explained things properly What matters more is whether you’ve actually done the thing mistakes and all and can walk someone else through it without making them feel dumb for not already knowing.
Why Write For Us
This isn’t a big content operation pushing out ten articles a day. It’s a small team, and someone here genuinely reads what lands in the inbox. Writing here tends to come with a handful of things worth knowing.
Your name stays on the piece. Full credit, a short bio, and a link back to wherever you actually want people to land — a blog, a shop, whatever it is you’re building. If you’re trying to grow something of your own on the side, that link ends up mattering more than it looks like it should.
You’re also writing for people who are actually mid project right now not someone idly scrolling past a nice before and after photo for five seconds Whoever’s reading this is often standing in a half finished room trying to figure out whether they can save the wall they just cut into or whether it’s time to call someone who know what they’re doing.
Editing on our end means tightening a paragraph maybe asking a clarifying question not rewriting your voice into something that sounds like every other home blog out there If there’s personality in your writing a genuine opinion we want that to survive intact.
There’s no pay to publish setup and no algorithm quietly deciding whether your pitch clears some bar a real person reads it every single time And once something’s live we don’t just leave it sitting there we push it through social and the newsletter wherever it fits because we’d rather put real effort behind fifteen genuinely useful articles a month than quietly bury fifty forgettable ones.
What We’re Looking For
We cover a lot of ground within home improvement, but a few kinds of pieces consistently stand out when they land in the inbox.
Honest project walkthroughs tend to land well especially the ones that admit what went sideways along the way instead of just handing over a polished list of steps that skips every hard part Budget focused pieces are welcome too how you actually pulled off a renovation for less than expected where cutting a corner ended up costing more later Rental friendly fixes are always wanted as well particularly from people who’ve figured out how to make a space feel like their own without losing a deposit over it.
Tool and material reviews have a place here too as long as there’s a real opinion behind them rather than a spec sheet lifted straight off the manufacturer’s website We’re also interested in DIY versus hiring a pro pieces especially from writers who’ve genuinely tried both approaches on similar projects and can speak honestly about where that line actually sits And beginner friendly guides are always welcome particularly from someone who was a beginner recently enough to still remember exactly what confused them the first time around.
Doesn’t fit anywhere on that list? Pitch it anyway. Some of our favorite pieces came from writers who ignored the whole thing entirely.
What usually separates a memorable submission from a forgettable one is specificity. Anyone can write measure twice cut once. What actually helps a reader is knowing exactly what happened the one time you didn’t what it cost to fix and what you’d tell yourself now if you could go back small real details like that are what make a piece worth bookmarking instead of skimming once and forgetting.
What We’re Not Looking For
We get plenty of drafts that read like they were stitched together from five other home improvement blogs covering the same project, written by nobody who’s actually done the work. Readers notice pretty quickly. So do we.
Generic project guides with no real experience behind them tend to get passed on, along with thinly disguised ads for a specific brand or product, content that’s already published somewhere else even under a slightly different title, and writing that mostly exists to cram in affiliate links rather than genuinely help whoever’s reading it.
Submission Guidelines
A few practical things before you send something over.
Most pieces fall somewhere between 1,200 and 2,000 words though we won’t turn away something shorter longer if the project genuinely earns the extra space send it as a Google Doc link or a plain Word file please no PDFs they’re miserable to leave comments on If you’ve got your own photos from the actual project include them; we’ll almost always pick real images over stock photos mostly because it tells us the writer actually did the work they’re describing.
The piece needs to be unpublished and written specifically for us and we do check so please don’t send us something already sitting live somewhere else under a slightly different title along with the draft include a short two or three sentence bio and one link not a paragraph of them just the one.
We’re not fussy about a rigid outline but a piece that breaks naturally into sections tends to read better online than one long unbroken block of text does. If your article splits well by project stage by tool or by a handful of separate tips go ahead and format it that way before sending it over saves both of us a round of editing later.
On tone, write it the way you’d actually explain the project to a neighbor who asked how it went, not like you’re filing an instruction manual. Humor’s welcome. So is admitting what you’d do differently next time. So are your actual opinions about which shortcuts are worth taking and which ones aren’t. Honestly, we’d rather read “I regretted skipping the primer within a week” than a flawless sentence that says nothing at all.
How To Pitch
If you’re not sure a finished draft is the right move yet, a short pitch works just as well. Tell us what the piece is about and roughly what angle you’re taking, why you’re the person to write it, and a link to anything you’ve written before, if there’s one lying around.
Send it to the email listed on our Contact page with the subject line “Write For Us — [Your Topic].” That subject line matters more than it seems like it should — it’s the difference between your pitch getting sorted quickly and it drowning somewhere between newsletter replies and spam.
We usually get back to people within a week sometimes longer during busy seasons when it feels like everyone’s tackling a project at once If two weeks pass without a reply a polite follow-up is completely fine We won’t mind.
One Last Thing
We know inboxes like this one get flooded with pitches from people chasing any byline they can get, without much real experience sitting behind it. If that’s not you, if you’ve genuinely got a project worth writing about, we want to read it.
We also know hitting send on something you wrote can feel scarier than the actual project ever was so if there’s a draft sitting around that you’re not sure is good enough send it over anyway Worst case we suggest a few edits Best case it ends up in front of thousands of readers who were looking for exactly this kind of honest specific slightly imperfect home improvement writing.
Go dig it up and send it over.