Styled Home Notes is a visual site — most of our articles are image-led, and images do most of the work of communicating an idea. Because of that, we take image sourcing and image rights seriously. This page documents where our images come from, how we use them, and how to request a correction or removal.
Where our images come from
Images published on Styled Home Notes are drawn from the following sources:
- AI-generated images — many of our featured and in-article visuals are created using AI image generation tools. These are produced under terms that allow editorial and commercial use, and they’re used for styling concepts, room ideas, and editorial illustration. We design them to look like editorial home photography because that’s the visual language our category uses.
- Owned photography — original photos taken for the site.
- Licensed stock photography — images licensed from stock providers under terms that permit editorial use.
- Public-domain or properly licensed third-party images — including some images used under Creative Commons or similar licenses, with attribution as required.
- Brand or product media used with permission — when a brand provides press images or grants explicit permission for editorial use.
How AI-generated images are used
Because so much of our visual content is AI-generated, we want to be specific:
- We use them for editorial illustration — to show a styling concept, a layout idea, a “what this could look like” scene.
- We do not use them to misrepresent specific real things — a specific real product, a specific real home, a specific real person, or a specific real creator’s photography. We don’t generate “fake before-and-afters” of identifiable spaces or people.
- We don’t claim AI images are personal photography. When an article mentions “my kitchen” or “my apartment,” that means an actual home — not an AI scene. Most articles avoid that framing entirely; we describe ideas, not personal anecdotes.
- Brand silhouettes and trademarks — we avoid AI-generated images that imitate the silhouette of a recognizable branded product (the classic KitchenAid stand mixer outline, the Smeg fridge, the Dyson, etc.) to prevent misleading product associations.
Attribution
When an image requires attribution — for example, Creative Commons or a brand-permission image — we include credit near the image, at the bottom of the article, or in a dedicated credit note. AI-generated and licensed-stock images typically don’t require visible attribution.
Images we share to Pinterest follow the same rules. We don’t pin third-party photography we don’t have the right to redistribute, and our Pinterest creative work is either AI-generated specifically for the platform or built from our own owned visuals.
Image removal or credit requests
If you believe an image on Styled Home Notes is yours — or was wrongly attributed, or used without the right permissions — we want to make it right. Email cs@styledhomenotes.com with:
- The page URL on Styled Home Notes
- The specific image (URL or description)
- Proof or details of ownership
- Whether you’d like credit added, attribution corrected, or the image removed
We review image requests promptly and respond within 2–3 business days. We treat these requests seriously — removing or correcting an image is straightforward when there’s a real ownership question.
Questions
General image questions: cs@styledhomenotes.com.