What are home decor communities?

Communities for interior design enthusiasts, homeowners, and design professionals covering styles, furniture, renovation projects, and inspiration. Professional organizations host industry networks, while Facebook groups and Reddit communities connect people sharing design ideas across all budgets and tastes.

Where do most home decor communities live?

Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (44% of 16 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

69% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical home decor community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 359K members and the median is 46K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (100%). Others that show up often include member perks, paid community, and newsletter.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Home Decor topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Home Decor Communities Report: Stats, Platforms, Trends...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 16 home decor communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: home decor communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated periodically

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Communities: 16
Platforms: 5
Avg members: 359K
Median members: 46K

Where Home Decor Communities Are Hosted

Independent Platforms
7(44%)
Reddit
5(31%)
Facebook
1(6%)
LinkedIn
1(6%)
Discourse
1(6%)

Independent Platforms leads, but Reddit and Facebook also represent meaningful shares.

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
0(0%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
2(13%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
1(6%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
6(38%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
3(19%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
3(19%)

1 community has unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (359K vs 46K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Home Decor Differs From Other Categories

Home Decor is less free-to-join, larger, and more paid or gated, compared with typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Home Decor	Hive Index average
Free to join	69%	84%
Median members	46K	25K
Average members	359K	672K
Paid or apply-to-join	31%	16%
Topic pageviews / mo	188	827

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
100%
Member Perks
25%
Paid Community
25%
Newsletter
19%
Online/Offline Events
19%

Niche Features

Courses
13%
Pairing
13%
Job Board
6%
Requires Application
6%

Forum appears on 100% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 14

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Independent Platforms	7	44%	3	21%
Reddit	5	31%	3	21%
Facebook	1	6%	6	43%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Facebook gets 43% of clicks but only 6% of listings, so visitors click it more than you'd expect from supply alone.

Most-clicked formats

Forum / feed-based
12(86%)
Other platforms
2(14%)

Most-clicked features

Forum
14(100%)
Member Perks
4(29%)
Paid Community
3(21%)
Pairing
3(21%)
Courses
2(14%)
Newsletter
2(14%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Massive
6(43%)
Huge
3(21%)
Gigantic
3(21%)
Large
2(14%)

Top-clicked listings

Interiors & Architecture
6(43%)
Interior Design Community
2(14%)
American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)
2(14%)

Most clicks go to forum / feed-based and other platforms communities.

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Home Decor. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•This is a smaller slice of Hive Index's database, so read trends as directional.

FAQ

: Communities for interior design enthusiasts, homeowners, and design professionals covering styles, furniture, renovation projects, and inspiration. Professional organizations host industry networks, while Facebook groups and Reddit communities connect people sharing design ideas across all budgets and tastes.
: Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (44% of 16 listings).
: 69% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 359K members and the median is 46K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (100%). Others that show up often include member perks, paid community, and newsletter.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Home Decor topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.