do I need a redirect?

https://www.techcounter.com/wordpress/install-wordpress-files-to-a-subdirectory-but-run-your-blog-off-the-root-directory/

Thanks but I think that’s not what I am getting at
I have all of my wordpress files in a folder called ‘wordpress’ on my ftp
My home page is a static page written in my wordpress blog so this page also has to sit in the ‘wordpress’ folder but that means that the homepage cannot be at the root of my directory
Anyway, the way I got round it is this
My homepage is https://www.venuscakes.com/blog/welcome. I have done a 301 redirect from venuscakes.com to this page
My gallery is venuscakes.com/blog/gallery. I have done a 301 redirect from https://www.venuscakes.com/gallery to this page
My blog is still at https://www.venuscakes.com/blog
I have limited experience so this may be a bit of a bodge
Anybody have any thoughts on this?
Also, will google still index my pages ok with this set up?
Cheers
Graham