Tidylife

Interior & Lifestyle

  • Home
  • Shopping
    • My Directory
  • About
    • Work With Me
  • Home Inspiration
    • Kitchens
    • Bathrooms
    • Bedroom
    • Flooring
    • Furniture
    • Home Office
    • Lighting
  • Home Improvements
    • Furniture Makeovers
    • DIY
  • Lifestyle
    • Beauty
    • Cars & Motoring
    • Eco
    • Family
    • Fashion
    • Finance
    • Fitness/Running
    • House Plants
    • Kids stuff
    • Money Saving
  • Home Maintenance
  • Nav Social Icons

  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Lifestyle · December 3, 2020

Protect Your Privacy In Your Instagram Profile

Instagram is the perfect place to showcase your home decor and DIY projects. You can share your best ideas and efforts online and gather views with some of the most popular home decoration hashtags. 

#howyouhome

#living

#lovemyhome

#homedecor

#homedesign

In short, Instagram is the ideal platform for enthusiastic homeowners who want to build an engaging and inspiring presence. However, sharing your home on social media channels comes at a cost. You need to be careful about how much you are willing to share with your followers. Indeed, Instagram is a public-facing channel where the majority of your followers probably have never met you in real life. As such, it may not be safe to display some confidential details about your home and your location. Here are some tips to give them all the Insta feels without any of the Insta fears. 

Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash

Don’t make your online profile private

First of all, it can be tempting to set your Instagram profile as private. However, it’s a counterintuitive strategy when it comes to the visual platform. Ultimately, a private profile means that nobody can see your posts unless they’re explicitly allowed to do so – aka, they follow you. It’s tricky to expand your home decor influence if nobody can see what you share! Instead, keep your profile public and make sure to fill up your bio bit. You can also link to your personal blog if you’ve got one. Instagram is unlikely to pull information from the blog beyond the URL. However, users can click and visit your site, so be careful about the contact data you publish online. Ideally, your blog shouldn’t display your home address. You can use a service such as http://physicaladdress.com/ if you want to provide contact information. Alternatively, you can also stick to a contact form with social media links to keep things manageable. 

Dramatic garden photos that don’t show too much

Garden photos are an excellent way of expanding your reach as an influential home decor enthusiast. You can seize the opportunity to show that your home has both an interior and exterior style. So, dress up your garden for your Instagram photo, as per https://www.tidyawaytoday.co.uk/the-best-ways-to-dress-up-your-front-garden/. However, it is a good idea to avoid visuals that might show your street name or house number. A high fence can hide your home from sight, ensuring that no recognisable road or structure is visible in the background. 

Photo by Alyssa Bossom on Unsplash

The art of geotagging

Check your Instagram settings to remove the risk of sharing your physical location when you upload photos. Instagram using geotag features, aka the location of your device, when you share content. You shouldn’t allow Instagram to publicise your location if you want to protect your home and privacy. However, you can still use geotag features to share your locations when you’re visiting popular places. Most restaurants and noteworthy monuments already have a geotag attached, so it’s easy to search and add it to your photo. You can also add a location #hashtag when it is relevant, such as sharing your region or county, for instance. 

Building a safe online presence can be a game-changer when you want to share your home decor ideas and inspiration with an enthusiastic audience. Ultimately, the Internet is a place that never forgets anything. While your followers are unlikely to cause you any harm, there’s no need to take unnecessary risks for the sake of a good Insta photo! 

Featured post

© Copyright 2020 Antonia, All rights Reserved. Written For: Tidylife

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

Posted By: Antonia · In: Lifestyle

How To Talk To Parents About Future-Proofing Their Home
7 Easy Decor Ideas To Style A Christmas Fireplace, Mantel Or Shelf

You’ll Also Love

This Guide Will Help you to Choose the Best Wedding Colours
The Dos and Don’ts of Treating Dry Skin Caused by Shaving
Faux leather berry jacketThoughts On ‘Try Tuesday’ – the M&S Personal Styling Service

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

CommentLuv badgeShow more posts

Primary Sidebar

Hello! I'M ANTONIA I launched Tidylife to provide interior, garden & lifestyle inspiration. Love home decor and budget friendly improvements? Me too! You'll find them all here. Plus decorating, styling & upcycling ideas. I also love to share fitness, fashion & beauty features, so I hope you enjoy visiting Tidylife.

Subscribe to my newsletter

Name

Email


Copyright © 2025 Tidylife · Theme by 17th Avenue

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept All Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT