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Young House Love | DIY Home Decorating Projects, Tutorials, & Shenanigans Young House Love DIY Home Decorating Projects, Tutorials, & Shenanigans Our House Our Beach House Our Duplex Before & Afters Our Current House Our Beach House Our Duplex Our First House Our Second House Our Showhouse DIY & Decorating Tips Most Popular Home Improvement Painting Cleaning & Organizing Crafting & Art More . . . Podcast Getting Started Show Notes Shop Our Fav Home Finds Our Lighting Line Our Paint Our Books Our Book Club Picks | By John Petersik | May 11, 2020 | #174: That Time A Psychic Came To Our House On the cusp of our big Florida move, we take one last look at how downsizing and living for three weeks without almost all of our worldly possessions has changed our view of our “stuff” – including what we miss the most, and why it’s not what we expected. Plus experts predict how the pandemic may change the way people renovate and build homes moving forward. From floor plan changes to smart technology, it’s interesting to see what they think might carry on for years to come. We also stumble into a very random discussion about astrology, pet psychics, and whether the stars can tell us where in the world we really should be living. [ Read More ] Filed Under: Podcast | By John Petersik | May 6, 2020 | Photos Of Our Florida House’s Renovation Progress Our Florida house reno is moving right along. Wanna see it?! We do too! That sounds like a joke, but I’m serious. We haven’t seen any of these changes in person yet, so all of the pictures in this post are from our contractor who has been working on our house over the last two months. So please forgive us if some are a little blurry (like the one below) or not exactly the same angle as our before photos. We’re happy to have any pictures we can get! And when we finally LIVE THERE (there’s still not an exact moving date pinned down – but fingers crossed for sometime next week) we’ll share approximately [ Read More ] Filed Under: Home Improvement , Our Florida House | By John Petersik | May 4, 2020 | #173: The Money Question We Keep Getting Asked If you’ve wondered about the money side of selling three houses and downsizing to one smaller home, today we’re answering some of your most asked questions. We’re also sharing the weird renovation hiccups that have delayed our move in date (including a series of weird toilet-related follies that we never saw coming). Plus the surprising reaction we had to our own house tour video and why everyone is crying over one particular part of homeownership. **Here’s a transcript of this episode if you’re unable to listen or would rather read 8,000 words** What’s New Below you can see our hardwood floors in the Florida house after they had been sanded down. See that big stripe-looking [ Read More ] Filed Under: Podcast | By Sherry Petersik | April 29, 2020 | Two Final House Tour Videos (an “After Tour” & one that shows what we’re leaving behind) Ok, this post won’t need a lot of words (famous last words from this Chatty Cathy) because the two videos in this post will do a lot of the work for us. You can just click play below to see a final “after tour” of our house, as it looked right before our real estate showings in early March (you can hear more about how those went here in this podcast episode – it was pretty crazy!). And if you have questions about paint colors or where we got something that you saw (furniture items, accessories, blinds, rugs, etc) they’re all sourced right here in this post for you. Note: You can also view this [ Read More ] Filed Under: Decorating , Our Current House | By John Petersik | April 27, 2020 | #172: What Will & Won’t Be Done When We Move Into Our New House Our entire approach to renovating our new house from afar has changed pretty dramatically since February when we first started house hunting, including a period in which we didn’t think we’d be tackling any major projects at all. And lots of you have been asking for a rundown of what we’re doing now, what’s left, and how long we think this house reno might be. So today we’re taking you down that rabbit hole and sharing how our plans shifted quite a few times – and where we ended up. Plus, why packing all of our belongings was a more intense process than we expected, and an update on our move date. Oh and what [ Read More ] Filed Under: Podcast | By Sherry Petersik | April 22, 2020 | A (Before) Tour Of Our Florida House! Eiiiiiiiiiiii! That’s my excited dolphin sound. I do an IMPRESSIVE impression when I’m extra hyped (according to my kids). Anyway, I’m BEYOND excited to take you on a little tour of our new house in Florida, as it looked when we first laid eyes on it back in February. As luck would have it, that was also the last time we laid eyes on it in person (thanks to our spring break trip being cancelled due to staying hunkered down at home). So it feels like a ton has changed since we were in it a few months ago – both from a global standpoint (worldwide pandemic), and also from a reno standpoint (since we [ Read More ] Filed Under: Our Florida House , Project Planning | By John Petersik | April 20, 2020 | #171: It Finally Happened! We recently hit a long-awaited milestone that we’ve been working towards for months, and we couldn’t be more grateful!! We’re sharing all the details today – plus we’re diving deeper into a question that seems to keep popping up: “How can you tell if downsizing is right for you? What if you majorly regret it?!” There are actually four ways that you can take smaller space living for a spin before pulling the ripcord – which is a huge advantage, and a great way to answer that question for yourself. We also explore how the reality TV show that you’d want to be on the most (or the least!) can reveal a lot about your [ Read More ] Filed Under: Podcast | By Sherry Petersik | April 15, 2020 | Our Florida House Inspiration Pictures As promised, I’m sharing a ton of photos that are inspiring us the most when it comes to our new house in Florida. My alternate title for this post was BEACHY VIBES 4 DAYZ because I feel like we have been preparing for this moment for our entire adult lives. Ha! So many of you have been saying things like “Your art! It has been a sign forever that you were meant to live by the beach!” (for example there’s this anniversary painting and these aerial beach photos and about 843 more examples since I’m actively packing all of our art). Meanwhile others have been like “even your first house with light blue & sand-colored [ Read More ] Filed Under: Decorating , Favorites , Our Florida House , Project Planning | By John Petersik | April 13, 2020 | #170: The Two Totally Different Ways That We House Hunted This week we’re taking a deep dive into the two methods that we used to find our Florida house, including how we prioritized our wants versus needs, sifted through hundreds of real estate listings, and used technology to overcome the fact that we were 800 miles away. We’re also sharing how a bad news call from our contractor ended up saving us from a huge future headache (that may or may not have involved having zero functioning bathrooms in our new house). Plus, Sherry’s unique way with words comes back to haunt her. And John takes spreadsheeting to a whole new level. What’s New Here’s a sneak peek at the renovations going on at our [ Read More ] Filed Under: Podcast | By Sherry Petersik | April 8, 2020 | How We Cleaned A Dingy Secondhand Rug Pretty much every vintage runner we own is one that we have ordered online, never having seen them in person. Generally, we’ve had great luck. But it’s always kind of a gamble because you can’t fully trust a photo to show you what something truly looks like in person (especially under the specific lighting conditions of your space versus theirs – plus your computer monitor’s brightness can alter things too, etc). It might arrive and look darker in person. It may be a bit more worn ...