oh, but sometimes the ideabooks are the best part. Not necessarily people's random books, but the ones that are like curated collections, highlighting a specific problem/house/piece of furniture, etc. Similar to Pinterest's "boards" although usually much smaller. I was looking for ideabooks on DIY headboards. "Ideabooks" are still being named in my email. Among this one's ideabooks: Why Fall is the Best Time for Planting Room of the Day: A San Francisco Living Room Enjoys the View (no one said they were gramatically correct) 7 Quick and Easy Halloween Decorating Ideas Insulation Basics: Natural and Recycled Materials This post was edited by Violet.West on Sun, Oct 12, 14 at 20:57

At first, I had the same problem of missing ideabooks. I found that my ideabooks were missing if I tried to access them from one of the garden forum pages. I found them when I opened the link from the main Houzz page. This worked for me: From the main Houzz page, click the drop down "YourHouzz" then click "idea books". Hope this helped.

question - if you do use Houzz and you save pictures in your idea book - how do you share them with people that are not on Houzz? I can't save them and it takes forever to load on my phone. I want to go to the tile store tonight and share the photos with the person there. :( now I am annoyed I started with an idea book here. Of course I have one on pinterest too, but I cant get the Houzz pictures there. Can I?

oh they changed how you do it. you go under edit in the ideabook and there are 3 dots, click there.