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Nicole Balch

Interior Design Studio
@makingitlovely
Designer with a lot of hobbies. Renovating, decorating, and gardening #thelovelyvictorian in Oak Park, IL. ↓ est. 2007
  • Home & Decor
  • Following 1.7K
  • Followers 28.8K
  • Engagement 1.32%
  • Avg comments 7

About Nicole Balch

Nicole Balch (@makingitlovely) is an Interior Design Studio creator on Instagram, also filed under Home & Decor. The account has 28,813 followers and 1,958 published posts. Recent posts average 376 likes and 7 comments, an engagement rate of 1.32%.

With 28.8K followers, Nicole Balch is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Nicole Balch follows 1,712 accounts, so the audience is roughly 17 times the size of the list followed. Nicole Balch uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Nicole Balch under Interior Design Studio, with Home & Decor as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Nicole Balch runs to 17 words across 2 lines. The bio tags #thelovelyvictorian. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Nicole Balch dates from December 2023.

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1,958 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Nicole Balch, 8 are single images, 1 is a video and 1 is a carousel. That mix leans toward single images. Nicole Balch has built a substantial archive of 1,958 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 15 followers for each post published. Nicole Balch also keeps 34 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 63 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include thing, it’s, back, took and beautiful. The captions tag #jewelrystorage, #jewelrybox, #gezelligheid, #wrightplus and #loweryhouse.

I needed a low stakes organizing project so I turned my attention to my small but growing collection of threadless ends and flat back earrings. There’s a little hidden compartment in this box where I put some of my less worn pieces, the rest of my piercing jewelry fits in the ring slots, and I hung a chain from the top to hold cartilage hoops in place. I think I’ll make something to cover the logo inside the lid and the whole thing will feel really special. #jewelrystorage #jewelrybox
My daughter, my lovely daughter, is one of the funniest people I know and she gently mocks me in the best way possible. I wanted a shot of our hot dog flavored ice cream (complete with mustard and relish on a mini hot dog bun) but this is far better than the photo I took. 🌭 Thanks for the tickets, - this shot made up for the fact that I took not one but two bites of this foodstuff.
This show was the gentleness and joy that I so needed, surrounded by community, loving this city and its sense of home and permanence, inspired to create something beautiful, musical or otherwise. #gezelligheid
Three things:
1. Stress fracture? Stress injury? Either way I have to wear this sweet shoe for 6 weeks. 👞
2. I’m getting a second tattoo next month - a pomegranate branch. 🌿
3. I’m not bad on bass, even better on guitar, but I’m playing music regularly with another lady in town - two women on ukulele playing songs from 100 years ago. 🎶
This is a cabinet color and cat color appreciation post.
I worked on and am quoted in an article for about the that ran on the front of Sunday’s Home & Garden section.

"One of the delights of a Showhouse is the level of equal attention paid to all spaces," said Nicole Balch, an interior designer and blogger from Oak Park. One may expect to be wowed by a living room or kitchen, she said, "but a show house may have you walking away still thinking about a particularly beautiful hallway."

Lots of gems like that from me to you. I’ll link to the article in my Stories. And go see the Showhouse! It’s beautiful.
Today is the Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk! I fell in love with this Queen Anne Victorian ten years ago when I stopped into the open house after #wrightplus that year and now it’s on the tour for the first time. We have loved living here, renovating, decorating, and caring for it for the last decade. I hope today’s visitors love it too. Thank you for having us - we are so happy to share our home.

#loweryhouse #oakparkil #architecture #housetour
I keep thinking I should fix my lil bug friends and hang them back up but then you know. I forget. Even though I see them every single day because they’re leaned against the far closet wall. A pair of foster cats we had at the time kept attacking them (leaping!) and I took them down before they were too far gone but it has literally been YEARS. And I do kind of like them hanging out back there when I’m checking my fit.
Planted this magnolia in memory of my gramma and I’m so glad I did. It’s thriving. It’s the prettiest thing out here by far and the only thing blooming this early, and it makes me think of her.
The guitar I bought for myself when I was 18, a bass that’s even older and only sometimes works, a secondhand keyboard, a quite loud amp, and the newest addition, the guitar on the wall that I’m over the moon about. Really leaning into this whole “music room” thing here.

Nicole Balch's engagement

Nicole Balch's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.32%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 76 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 54 to 1, with 376 likes and 7 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

Engagement rate

1.32%

Avg likes
376
Avg comments
7
Interactions : followers
1 : 76

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Who is Nicole Balch?

Nicole Balch (@makingitlovely) is an Interior Design Studio creator on Instagram, also filed under Home & Decor. Nicole Balch uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Nicole Balch runs to 17 words across 2 lines.

How many followers does Nicole Balch have?

Nicole Balch has 28,813 followers on Instagram (28.8K). Nicole Balch follows 1,712 accounts, so the audience is roughly 17 times the size of the list followed. Nicole Balch has built a substantial archive of 1,958 posts.

What is Nicole Balch's engagement rate?

Nicole Balch's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.32%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 76 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 54 to 1, with 376 likes and 7 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

What does Nicole Balch post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Nicole Balch under Interior Design Studio, with Home & Decor as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Nicole Balch, 8 are single images, 1 is a video and 1 is a carousel. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Nicole Balch repeatedly use the words thing, it’s, back, took and beautiful. Nicole Balch's captions carry hashtags such as #jewelrystorage, #jewelrybox and #gezelligheid. Nicole Balch writes those captions mainly in English. The bio tags #thelovelyvictorian. Nicole Balch keeps 34 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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