Blog Profile / Young House Love
| URL : | http://www.younghouselove.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | House & Home / Home Improvement | |
| Posts on Regator: | 853 | |
| Posts / Week: | 7.9 | |
| Archived Since: | April 29, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Care For A Spot Of Tea?
Guys, I did it. I broke out the sewing machine to make something for Clara’s third birthday. It’s a little tradition of ours to make her something instead of buying it since she gets a ton of store-bought presents from family and friends. I even used her big ol’ stash of monthly photo fabrics, which [...]
Curtain Call
Yup, we finally called it. The old floral curtains couldn’t last another day. So we said a long tearful goodbye to them. Just kidding, it was a joyful goodbye, full of jokes about Kim Kardashian’s Met ball dress. They looked pretty fancy pants, but they just weren’t our style, so it was time to take [...]
April Superlatives: Inside, Outside & Acting A Fool
Um where did April go? The shower-iest month seems like a distant memory by now, but it was filled with outdoor makeovers, bathroom updates, shades a plenty, and even a bit of rapping. So we’re taking a moment to appreciate all the things that we checked off of our list as a motivator to hopefully make [...]
Buh-Bye Blue Trim
If we’ve made one thing clear about our new house, it’s that we’re not crazy about the trim colors… Somewhere between the Williamsburg Blue and the Muddy Mauve, our painting hands began to quiver with excitement. Or was that dread? Not sure. We reasoned that while all of the carpet was up and before the [...]
Clara’s Dragon Party
Who smells smoke? Don’t panic, that’s just Clara’s dragon party, rollin’ into town (er, the internet?). Note: you can’t really smell this party through your computer, so if you smell smoke, please look into it. This year’s party was lower key than our last two (here’s her first birthday party, and her worm party from [...]
Fab Freebie: Modern Family
InStyle Modern sells modern furniture at prices that make it easier on your wallet to deck out your dining room with a full set of chairs or give your kitchen island an upgrade with a new trio of stools. And not only are they giving this week’s winner a $500 gift card, they’re offering up [...]
New House, New Listy McListerson
Exciting times guys! Operation Ditch The Blue Trim is currently in progress! So while we sweat our way through un-blue-ing things on the second floor – that’s four bedrooms, a nice long hallway, and at least 10 doors – we thought it was high time we shared our master to-do list for the new house [...]
Another Year, Another Homemade Fabric
Clara turned three on Tuesday (Threesday?) so we’ve spent the last few days marveling at this wonderful little lady before us and wondering where the heck the time went. And just like we did for her two previous birthdays, we marked the end of another 12 months by customizing the fabric backdrop for her photo [...]
Would Wood We Do?
Let’s talk about wood, shall we? As we mentioned on Tuesday, we decided to go with solid oak hardwoods for the four bedrooms and the hallway upstairs since many rooms downstairs along with the stairs themselves have a nice medium toned oak already (pretty similar to the hardwoods in our first house that ended up [...]
Halfway Through May
It’s time for our monthly moment of thanks to the sponsors who make the other 30+ posts possible. Without them we might not have food on our tables or clothes on our backs (and hungry, naked blogging doesn’t make for good DIY morale). So feel free to check out some things that caught our eye [...]
The New House Floor Plan
Just like our first house floor plan and our current house floor plan from yesteryear, a bunch of you have requested a new house floor plan. So here ya go! They definitely help visual people like us see what walls are where, and what flows into what. So we whipped this up with floorplanner.com (which [...]
Smell Ya Later, Upstairs Carpet
Dude, removing wall to wall carpeting (and all the layers under it) is no joke. We learned that when we finally tackled that task this weekend – and lived to tell the tale. Let me just tell you, progress smells a lot better than old carpeting. Even when there’s a substantial amount of sweat involved… [...]
Fab Freebie: Talent Show
One of the most exciting parts of doing a project is getting to share the sweat-inducing results when it’s done. And that’s the idea behind HouseTalent, a free site where you can easily upload before pics, progress shots, and after photos of the DIYs that are going on in your digs. The friendly interface makes [...]
Holy cow, did we just sell our house?
So… we got an offer on our house! (I’ll pause while Sherry flails around since that sentence is a trigger). And now that we’re through the inspection & the appraisal (and the closing date is officially on the calendar), we’re finally at the point that we feel safe enough to shout it to the interwebs [...]
The Spread & The Splurge
Psst- We switched up our Forum layout for you guys after getting your feedback last week. Hope you like it! Happy Friday y’all! We have some interesting house guests today (we’ll instagram/Facebook a sneak peek as soon as we get the ok) so we thought we’d have some Friday fun over here. We used to [...]
Our Last Minute Siding Sprint
So sorry this is late guys! Internet problemz. Remember back when we debated painting the siding on the front porch way back here in fall 2011? Hence the creepy Halloween wreath on the door. We had picked a color and everything (Flagstone by Martha Stewart – the one on the right in the photo above) [...]
Reader Redesign: Bring Your Tuxedo
As much as we love a white kitchen, there are so many other fun options out there, like my sister’s wood cabinets + white appliances combo and “tuxedo” kitchens (a combo of dark and light cabinets). So when Rita’s makeover landed in our inbox, we couldn’t believe how much she changed her space for the [...]
Spring Pinterest Challenge: Boxed Up
Word up my fellow Pinterest playas. Hope you got down with some baking, crafting, painting, sewing, building, or knitting fun because it’s time to share this season’s (completely unofficial) Pinterest Challenge (not sponsored by Pinterest or anyone else, just dreamed up by Katie to make us stop pinning and start doing). Our mission this season? [...]
How To Celebrate Your Dragon
In keeping with our annual tradition, we thought we’d give you a peek at Clara’s invitation and a few of our party supplies like we did last year and the year before. And since a lot of you are trying to guess the theme that she picked this year (after choosing worms last year)… well… say [...]
Fab Freebie: Come To My Windows
Whether it’s googling around for a tutorial, answering comments on the go, or making a list of project materials on our phone, gadgets have definitely wormed their way into our DIY routine. So we thought one of you might enjoy being hooked up with over $700 worth of Microsoft’s newest Windows devices – a Surface [...]