For those with a finer taste in home decor, blogs provide a wondrous opportunity for searching out the best luxury items and designs for home lighting, furniture and interior remodeling.

A blog for the New York Times pointed out another blog, Remodelista.com, founded in 2007 by Julie Carson and two other women, for sharing their advice and discoveries on livable rooms blending styles from the classics and vintage finds with more modern designs.

"We thought of it as an information-sharing vehicle," Carlson said, according to the New York Times Currents blog. "Why shouldn't friends with a similar sensibility share their renovation files online?"

People who have a luxury home designed with a lighter touch look at their rooms as works of art, a life-sized diorama of their dream living space. Designing a room takes into considerations of lighting fixtures and the display of furniture and wall objects d'art.

The website Luxist wants to know what favorite lighting fixtures, luxurious pieces of furniture and extraordinary dishware or glassware sophisticated shoppers have found and where they found them - online or in the real world - and is polling site visitors for its Luxist Awards.