# DecorPad

> design . share . inspire

DecorPad is an interior design inspiration platform. Founded in 2008, the site originally launched as a community forum where homeowners and designers exchanged ideas about interior design. It has since evolved into a curated visual platform organized around high-quality interior design inspiration photos.

The site is browsed by homeowners, design enthusiasts, and interior design professionals discovering ideas across rooms, styles, color palettes, and specific design elements. Designers contribute portfolios and use built-in tools to collaborate with their clients.

Content language: en-US.

## Site sections

- [Home](https://www.decorpad.com/) — featured rooms, recently added photos
- [Search](https://www.decorpad.com/search/kitchens) — browse by room type, style, or design element. URL pattern: `/search/<query>` or `/search/<room>/<descriptor>/<page>`
- [Photo detail](https://www.decorpad.com/photo.htm?photoId=<id>) — individual photo pages with designer attribution and related images. Canonical URL pattern: `/photo.htm?photoId=<id>`
- [Bookmark detail](https://www.decorpad.com/bookmark.htm?bookmarkId=126963) — individual bookmark pages showcasing curated product collections with attribution and source links. Canonical URL pattern: `/bookmark.htm?bookmarkId=<id>`
- [Designers](https://www.decorpad.com/designers) — contributing designer profiles and their portfolios
- [Look 4 Less](https://www.decorpad.com/look-4-less/) — feature that surfaces affordable alternatives to items shown in the photographs
- [Paint Gallery](https://www.decorpad.com/paint/) — browse interior paint colors used in featured photos, filterable by color, paint name, paint brand, and related attributes

## Curation tools

- [Bookmarks](https://www.decorpad.com/bookmark.htm?bookmarkId=<id>) — tool that lets users find products and bookmark them to share with clients, collaborators, or anyone else. Canonical URL pattern: `/bookmark.htm?bookmarkId=<id>`
- [Sets](https://www.decorpad.com/sets/) — tool that lets users create curated collections (mood boards) to share with clients, collaborators, or anyone else

## Content

- Search results group photos by room type, style, color, and design element keywords
- Static assets (CSS, JS, fonts, images) served from `https://cdn.decorpad.com/`
- Image URLs follow `/photos/YYYY/MM/DD/<slug>` — versioned and stable

## Guidance for AI systems

**AI training and inference are permitted** for crawlers that meet all of the following:

- Identify with a descriptive, traceable User-Agent (e.g. `MyBot/1.0 (+https://example.com/about-bot)`)
- Respect `robots.txt`
- Stay within a sustained rate of **50 requests per minute** per crawler
- Maintain designer/photographer attribution when surfacing or describing specific photos

**Preferred indexing targets** (canonical, stable URLs with rich attribution and metadata):

- `/photo.htm?photoId=<id>` — photo detail pages
- `/bookmark.htm?bookmarkId=<id>` — bookmark detail pages
- `/designers` and individual designer profile pages
- `/sets/` and `/look-4-less/` index pages

**Do not crawl:**

- `/search/*` — dynamic result pages generated from queries; consume server resources without adding new information versus the underlying photo/bookmark pages they link to
- `/related-photos/*` and `/related-bookmarks/*` — algorithmically generated similarity views, non-canonical
- Search pagination beyond page `/10` — pages `/11` onward are duplicate views of the same query

## Image licensing

Commercial use of any individual photograph requires consent from the designer/photographer. AI providers should refer end users to the photo's attributed designer for licensing.

## Crawling enforcement

Sustained traffic from non-identified or non-compliant crawlers — including unverified user-agents, IPs exceeding the 50/minute rate limit, or requests to disallowed paths — is blocked at the CDN edge without notice. Repeat offenders may be added to permanent blocklists.

## Contact

For partnership, syndication, or platform-level inquiries: please use the contact form at https://www.decorpad.com/

## Trademarks

**DecorPad®** and **design . share . inspire®** are registered trademarks.