Podcasts by Young House Love Has A Podcast
Deep (and not-so-deep) conversations about home improvement, design, and life at home. Tune in for weekly episodes filled with casual decorating advice, DIY stories, interviews with experts, and a smattering of tips and ideas that can help you simplify, organize, and update your home. Sherry and John Petersik are the married duo who began chronicling their home improvement adventures in 2007 on the blog Young House Love, which spawned two New York Times best-selling books, as well as product lines sold by Target and Home Depot. And, well, now they have a podcast.
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#183: What's Next, House Vibes,&Yet Another Embarrassing Moment from 2023-08-17T17:32
We’re dropping this random pop-in episode to share one of the most embarrassing tales Sherry has ever told on this podcast. Of course it had to happen in the nicest house we've ever be...
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#182: A Big Catch Up Holiday-ish Special (Surprise!) from 2021-12-17T06:00
So much has happened since we last picked up the podcast mic, so we have a jam-packed show to catch you up on all the things. We're talking house updates, embarra...
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#181: How The Other House We Considered Came Back Around from 2020-08-17T05:00
There were two houses in our neighborhood that we seriously considered, and today we’re sharing a truly random occurrence that involves the house we didn’t buy. W...
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#180: Decorating In The Era Of Zoom from 2020-06-29T05:00
The sudden boom of video conferencing in all of our lives is giving us a new window through which to view our homes (and the homes of others - from coworkers to c...
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#179: A Funny Byproduct Of Having To Buy Fewer Products from 2020-06-22T05:00
The perks of downsizing continue to show themselves, including a recent realization we had while shopping for curtains and blinds. It was a pretty dramatic contra...
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#178: Settling Into Our New House: Expectation Vs. Reality from 2020-06-15T05:00
We’ve been in our new house for one whole month, and there are definitely some things that are shaping up differently than we had pictured. So today we’re sharing...
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#177: Bathrooms: A Slippery Slope? from 2020-06-08T05:00
Today we're talking about how it has been as a family of four who is sharing one bathroom, and what plans we have for adding onto that number down the line. And w...
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#176: The Part Of Moving To A Smaller Home We Didn’t Expect from 2020-06-01T05:00
We’re in Florida (!!!) and we’ve got LOTS to tell you about all that went down on our moving day and throughout our first couple of weeks in our new home. We’re c...
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#175: Our Big Move Is Officially Underway (&We Have Some Predictions) from 2020-05-18T05:00
While we’re getting settled in our new house in Florida, we’ve got one last episode for you that we recorded in Richmond. In fact, we took a moment as “Past John ...
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#174: That Time A Psychic Came To Our House from 2020-05-11T05:00
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 ...
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#173: The Money Question We Keep Getting Asked from 2020-05-04T05:00
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...
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#172: What Will&Won’t Be Done When We Move Into Our New House from 2020-04-27T05:00
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 i...
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#171: It Finally Happened! from 2020-04-20T05:00
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...
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#170: The Two Totally Different Ways That We House Hunted from 2020-04-13T05:00
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 throug...
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#169: How Exactly Do You Downsize Your Stuff?! from 2020-04-06T05:00
As we prepare to move into a house that’s less than half the size of our current one, we’re taking a long hard look at our belongings to figure out what should co...
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#168: Our Florida Renovation Kicks Off With (Surprise!) A Plumbing Issue from 2020-03-30T05:00
We knew our new house in Florida would involve some big repairs, but we didn’t anticipate a certain plumbing curveball to get lobbed our way (although given our p...
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#167: Have Our Moving Plans Changed? And Are Our House Sales Derailed? from 2020-03-23T05:00
With everything that's going on right now, we're the first to admit that house stuff feels trivial, but this week we’re answering the most common question we’ve g...
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#166: We Sold Our House! from 2020-03-16T05:00
Our Richmond home is officially under contract (!!!) and it all came together unlike any other house we’ve sold before. So today we’re breaking down how it all ha...
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#165: The Dumb Thing We Did Before Listing Our House from 2020-03-09T05:00
We’re fessing up to an extremely poorly timed project that made our house look WORSE right before it hit the market. Whoops. Plus we share the smorgasbord of ways...
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#164: How We’re Getting Our House Ready To Sell from 2020-03-02T06:00
With our big move only a few months away, what do we need to do to get our house ready to sell? This week we’re outlining some of the projects we’re taking on - b...
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#163: Our Next Big Project (It’s REALLY BIG) from 2020-02-24T06:00
Wanna know what our next big renovation project is? Well, it’s actually something that we’ve been contemplating for years but finally have the courage to do (than...
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#162: What Sherry’s Not Buying For An Entire Year from 2020-02-17T06:00
That’s right, there’s a new personal shopping challenge going on at our house - and this time Sherry has committed to skipping any purchases in a specific (and pr...
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#161: Then Half Of Our Lights Went Out... from 2020-02-10T06:00
This week we’re sharing the mystery of how half of the power in our house suddenly went out when we were just about to leave the country on vacation. We’re also c...
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#160: And Now For Some Big Duplex News from 2020-02-03T06:00
It’s our first episode of 2020 and WE BOY DO WE HAVE NEWS! We’re excited to share it because it not only means good things for us, our friends, and the duplex its...
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#159: Are You A Maximizer or Satisficer? from 2019-12-16T06:00
Have you ever thought about your approach to making decisions? It turns out that humans tend to have two distinct styles (and they even have fancy psychological t...
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#158: Holiday Decorating Around The World from 2019-12-09T06:00
After hundreds of submissions from Australia to South Africa, we’ve rounded up some fascinating (and extremely charming) ways that you guys dress up your homes al...
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#157: How You Can Achieve Even Your Biggest Financial Goals from 2019-12-02T06:00
Don’t we all want mo money without mo problems? Today we’re talking with personal finance expert Tanja Hester about how value-driven spending and setting a “money...
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#156: Renovations Are Stressful. Here’s What Helps Us. from 2019-11-25T06:00
It’s no secret that house projects can be stressful. Sometimes REALLY stressful. So today we’re sharing three ways we’re keeping a handle on it during our master bathroom renovation, especially ...
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#155: Can “The Rule Of Age 10” Really Predict Your Future? from 2019-11-18T06:00
Today we’re exploring an expert’s theory that your childhood passions (specifically around 5th grade) could hold the key to what you'll love doing most as an adul...
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#154: How To Pare Down When Everything Is Precious from 2019-11-11T06:00
Getting rid of stuff is hard, especially when it comes to kids and their creations. So this week we’re sharing the simple trick we use to keep everything from art...
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#153: Easy Ways To Make Your Day Less Annoying from 2019-11-04T06:00
You guys submitted your favorite life hacks over the last few weeks, so today we’ve got an episode bursting at the seams with all of those cheap & simple tricks f...
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#152: The Haunted Room At Our Beach House from 2019-10-28T05:00
In honor of Halloween, we’re sharing a spooky occurrence at our beach house that we legitimately couldn't explain for a few months (even I, the perennial skeptic, was like... "how did that just ...
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#151: When Is It Worth It To Splurge? from 2019-10-21T05:00
Today we’re sharing how two recent treat yourself moments in our house turned sideways on us and how it shed some light on when to splurge and when to make like E...
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#150: Changing Our Minds About Our House (Again) from 2019-10-14T05:00
Our home’s exterior makeover didn’t stop with painting it white last year, so today we’re catching you up on some projects we've completed and what’s still to com...
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#149: The Episode That Made Me A Plant Lady from 2019-10-07T05:00
We’re sharing how our bathroom reno went from zero to fifty percent (that’ll make more sense when you hear what we did) and how we gained a ton of insight about t...
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#148: How We Keep Our Lives&Projects Organized from 2019-09-30T05:00
People are always asking how we keep our projects and our household organized ("do you make lists? use an app?! help me!") so today we’re outlining the three tool...
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#147: Our Summer Of Living In A Smaller House In A Smaller Town from 2019-09-23T05:00
What happens when you move into a smaller house in a smaller town for over two months? That’s what we found out this summer when we stayed at our beach house to m...
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#146: What It Was Really Like Renting Out The Duplex from 2019-09-16T05:00
We survived our first summer as Airbnb hosts to 23 different families over the course of the last three months - and, more importantly, so did the duplex itself! ...
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#145: The Home Features People Wish They Didn’t Have from 2019-06-17T05:00
This week we’re diving into a survey that reveals the top homebuyer regrets - as in what features their homes have that they ended up not loving (and the results ...
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#144: When You Don’t Even Recognize Your Own Shopping Habits from 2019-06-10T05:00
We recently made two big changes to our shopping habits that are having both positive and negative repercussions. So we’re sharing what we did, why we did it, and...
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#143: So We Had Our First Guests At The Duplex... from 2019-06-03T05:00
After over a year and a half of renovation, the duplex officially hosted its first overnight guests!!! And it was an exciting, emotional, and eye-opening test of ...
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#142: Our Kitchen Is Grosser Than You Think from 2019-05-20T05:00
So it turns out there are some weird spots in the kitchen where germs go to party - so we’re learning more about that (and what you can do about it), as well as t...
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#141: When You See Another Blogger’s Home In Person… from 2019-05-13T05:00
Our recent Chicago meet-up with fellow bloggers Chris Loves Julia, Yellow Brick Home, and Making It Lovely left us with lots of feels (and very full stomachs). Bu...
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#140: The Most Fight-Inducing DIYs Out There from 2019-05-06T05:00
Home improvement can be stressful, and we’re no strangers to that tension leading to some pretty memorable arguments. So today we’re looking at some data about wh...
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#139: Our Exterior Makeover Continues... from 2019-04-29T05:00
Painting our brick house white was just the tip of our home’s exterior update iceberg, so this week we’re sharing more of our plans - including one that’s turning...
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#138: Was Ikea Not “Good Enough” For Our Home’s Kitchen? from 2019-04-22T05:00
Installing Ikea cabinets in all three of our beach house kitchens invites the question: why didn’t we use them in our h...
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#137: The Next Home We’re Taking On from 2019-04-15T05:00
We’ve got a really exciting announcement this week about a new home project we’re taking on, including how it came to be, what has us most excited, and why it’s g...
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#136: Maximizing House Joy (For Minimal Money) from 2019-04-01T05:00
This week we’re talking to Joyful author and expert Ingrid Fetell Lee about...
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#135: How Many Dollhouses Is Too Many Dollhouses? from 2019-03-25T05:00
If you think our podcast has tackled this question already, JUST YOU WAIT! The universe recently tested Sherry’s dollhouse fixation and whether she passed or fail...
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#134: Where Have All The Family Photos Gone? from 2019-03-18T05:00
Today we’re sharing how to find the right balance when you’re choosing between artwork or family photos for certain walls - and we're revealing where we've subconsciously gravitated towards putt...
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#133: The Fascinating Ways Homes Differ Around The World from 2019-03-11T05:00
Nearly 600 people wrote in to tell us about design norms from their specific country or region, and today we’re sharing some of the most popular, interesting, and...
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#132: Are We Sabotaging Our Sleeping Spaces? from 2019-03-04T06:00
What if there were little changes we could all make to our bedrooms and sleeping habits to sleep better and feel more rested in the morning? Today we’re talking a...
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#131: The Surprising Side Effects Of Going TV Free from 2019-02-18T06:00
We were both pretty shocked about the results of going completely without television for a while - especially Sherry. So today we're sharing what we learned, what...
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#130: Can Science Help Us Make Our Homes Happier? from 2019-02-11T06:00
Can the colors, furnishings, and accessories that we choose for our home actually make us feel quantifiably happier? Today we dive into the science of joy and lea...
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#129: When It Feels Like Everything’s Going Wrong from 2019-02-04T06:00
House projects don’t always go smoothly. We’ve all been there (heck, we're there right now with the duplex renovation) so we’re sharing some new strategies that w...
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#128: Finding More Life In Less Stuff from 2019-01-28T06:00
Minimalism can still feel like an “out there” lifestyle, so this week we’re bringing in expert Joshua Becker to share how dipping your toes into the minimalist wa...
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#127: The Real Housewives of Airbnb from 2019-01-21T06:00
This week we’re sharing a simple kitchen change that made it WAY more efficient for us (we’re kinda kicking ourselves for not doing it sooner). There's also an up...
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#126: Is Your Home Making You Grumpy? from 2019-01-14T06:00
Lots of us want a more organized home, but are we going about it the wrong way? Today we’re talking with a home efficiency expert about how rethinking our approac...
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#125: A Tale Of Two Kitchens from 2019-01-07T06:00
Our holiday was full of fun, family, and a freakish amount of Ikea boxes filling the duplex. So this week we’re sharing how we navigated the task of installing no...
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#124: One Small Space And Three Options (HELP!) from 2018-12-17T06:00
Today we’re talking about a small space that’s stumping us at the duplex and we’d love to hear what your family would like to rent mostListen
#123: Baskets: Friend or Foe? from 2018-12-10T06:00
We recently realized that storage baskets may be simultaneously helping AND hampering our home organizing efforts (and yes, hampering was a pun). Also, the duplex...
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#122: If We Had To Make A House “Must Have” List… from 2018-12-03T06:00
Whether you’re house hunting, building new, or just daydreaming, you’ve probably got a mental list of favorite home features that you either love having already o...
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#121: Do We Make Design Decisions Just For The Blog? from 2018-11-26T06:00
It’s a question we’ve gotten a lot over the years: are you doing this for you or for the blog? Listen
#120: The Big Fight We Had Over A Microwave from 2018-11-19T06:00
Remember when we got into it over a refrigerator back in Episode #74? Well, the location of an appliance recently had us battling over two different kitchen layouts - this time for the duplex. S...
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#119: What Almost Derailed Our Painted House Makeover from 2018-11-12T06:00
Now that we’ve completed our big brick house painting project, we’re sharing all the behind-the-scenes twists & turns of the previous week (believe me, the hits k...
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#118: The Not-So-Calm Before The White Brick Storm from 2018-11-05T06:00
Amidst all the excitement of getting our brick house painted white last week (!!!) there was some behind-the-scenes stress leading up to the big transformation. S...
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#117: The Downside To Decorating One Room At A Time from 2018-10-29T05:00
We recently passed the one year anniversary of moving furniture to our beach house, so this week we’re looking back on how we kept our sanity while decorating an ...
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#116: How To Get More Style At Home With Less Stuff from 2018-10-22T05:00
Now that we tested out the process to achieve “Cozy Minimalism” in our house (and loved the result!), we’re taking it straight to the source and talking with Listen
#115: The Trouble With Master Bedrooms from 2018-10-15T05:00
After a quick video of Sherry’s sparse closet sparked hundreds of questions on Instagram, we’re breaking down her process for creating a wardrobe that saves space...
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#114: Did We Almost Just Buy Another House?! from 2018-10-08T05:00
Our duplex renovation isn’t even close to being done, but we can’t help but think about the next house we’ll transform - because there will be another one. So tod...
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#113: What You Don’t See In Photos Of Our Living Room from 2018-10-01T05:00
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#112: One Week Of Living “Furniture Free” from 2018-09-24T05:00
Have you heard of the Furniture Free movement? Well, it piqued my interest so much that we’re challenging ourselves to try it for seven days (Sherry reluctantly a...
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#111: Can Minimalism Be Cozy? from 2018-09-17T05:00
As much as we love to simplify and declutter, we're not aiming for that ultra sleek and sometimes sterile look that’s often associated with minimalism. So we’ve b...
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#110: And Then The Bathroom Started Flooding from 2018-09-10T05:00
What started as a straightforward sink swap in the beach house master bathroom ended with a big hole in the wall and a face full of water. And the cause was somet...
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#109: Just When You Thought The Diamond Door Saga Was Over from 2018-08-27T05:00
We’ve been on a rollercoaster with those diamond paned doors that we hunted down for our duplex renovation. There was a pretty disappointing low followed by a sur...
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#108: Science Says These Rooms Are A Waste Of Space from 2018-08-20T05:00
Welp, it’s official: new research shows that we aren’t using all of the square footage in our homes. But we sure are paying for it (and then paying to heat & cool...
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#107: Are We All Getting Sick Of Watching Big Renovations? from 2018-08-13T05:00
We can’t be the only ones noticing that all of the renovations on TV and online seem to be snowballing. Whatever happened to those budget decorating shows and use...
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#106: What’s It Really Like To Downsize? from 2018-08-06T05:00
Sure it's fun to imagine what it would be like to downsize and live in a significantly smaller space, but this week we're talking to a family of 4 (with a giant d...
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#105: Sherry Vs. The Bathtub, Duplex Edition from 2018-07-30T05:00
We seem to have a sore spot with tubs, and the duplex renovation has proven to be no exception. So today we’re sharing how a strategic money-saving decision saved...
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#104: This Is How You’re Annoying Your Contractor from 2018-07-23T05:00
We’ve turned the tables today and have asked dozens of contractors - including our own! - what THEY wish we, their clients, did differently. We learned their bigg...
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#103: Regrets From Our Beach House Reno from 2018-07-16T05:00
It turns out that restoring a vintage stove isn’t all cupcakes & rainbows, so this week we’re revealing some of the quirks that you can’t see from a pretty pictur...
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#102: Are Islands Ruining America's Kitchens? from 2018-07-09T05:00
Islands are a staple of most modern kitchens, but this week we explore why not everyone is a fan (including what we realized is a negative about the island situat...
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#101: Should We Paint Our Brick House White? from 2018-06-25T05:00
Our urge to paint the exterior of our brick house white has been growing lately, but there are still some concerns holding us back. So today we’re diving into the...
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#100: So We Had To Quarantine The House… from 2018-06-18T05:00
Nothing like an infestation to drive you from your home for a few days, am I right? We’re sharing the whole itch-inducing story, including why we had to leave, an...
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#99: Our Latest (And Grossest) Home Experiment from 2018-06-11T05:00
When you put a lot of time or money into a project, you’ll go to great, weird, and sometimes gross lengths to protect it. We’ve got all the details in this week’s...
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#98: Why Some Houses We Designed Never Saw The Light Of Day from 2018-06-04T05:00
A few years ago we embarked on a design project with a local company that we were very excited about… but it fell apart for reasons we could’ve never expected. We...
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#97: What We Learned (And Saved) From Our Shopping Ban from 2018-05-21T05:00
Our month-long shopping hiatus came to a close last week, so today we’re sharing our results! What was the most difficult part? How did it change our habits? What...
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#96: Our Complicated Relationship With Stuff from 2018-05-14T05:00
Right in the middle of our own month-long shopping ban, we jumped at the chance to have a deep conversation with the author who started it all: Cait Flanders. She...
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#95: Our House Is Too Big. There, We Said It. from 2018-05-07T05:00
We’ve recently had a realization that we just don’t need as much space as we have. So how'd we end up buying a too-big house? What has made this so clear to us no...
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#94: Just When The Duplex Was Going So Well… from 2018-04-30T05:00
Just when we thought the duplex renovation was finally rolling along smoothly, we found ourselves in the midst of an ordeal that required an emergency trip to Cap...
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#93: One Month. No Superfluous Shopping. Can We Do It? from 2018-04-23T05:00
Can we go a whole month without buying anything we don’t need? That’s the challenge we’ve handed ourselves as part of a self-imposed month-long shopping ban. So this week we’re sharing how we we...
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#92: The Household Staples We Never Buy from 2018-04-16T05:00
Do you reject certain “household staples?” We do! And it turns out a lot of other people do too - to the point that experts are saying they might someday disappea...
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#91: When Is A House Change You Made Bad For Resale? from 2018-04-02T05:00
This week we're talking about when you should undo a personal or customized change that you made to your house that might turn off potential buyers (and when we'd...
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#90: What To Do When A Project Starts To Suck from 2018-03-26T05:00
We all know that deflated feeling when you’ve lost your mojo for a major project or renovation. So how do you reignite that excitement or energy you had for it in...
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#89: A Year Without Shopping from 2018-03-19T05:00
Could you put your wallet on lockdown for 365 days? Sherry shared the story of a woman who did, including why she took on the challenge, the few exceptions she al...
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#88: Whatever Happened To Privacy In The Bathroom? from 2018-03-12T05:00
Doorless bathrooms? Toilets behind glass walls? Showers and tubs just sitting in the corner of the bedroom? These “open concept” bathroom trends seem to be showin...
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#87: Lessons From The Messiest Homes In America from 2018-03-05T06:00
It’s never fun to get a call saying that you have to tear down something that you just SPENT AN ENTIRE WEEKEND CONSTRUCTING, but that’s exactly what happened with...
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#86: How Our Life Together Almost Didn’t Happen from 2018-02-26T06:00
We’re getting personal this week, and sharing some early setbacks and hard choices that almost steered our lives in a totally different direction - no houses, no ...
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#85: What We Got Wrong In Our Beach House Kitchen from 2018-02-19T06:00
This week John's fessing up to a design choice that he insisted we make in our beach house kitchen, but we now realize was - shall we say - misguided? Thankfully ...
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#84: Things We Can’t Agree On Lately from 2018-02-12T06:00
We don’t always see eye-to-eye on our projects and decorating decisions. In fact, we’re stuck in the midst of some pretty "active" home arguments right now. So in...
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#83: The Loophole We Found In Our Duplex Delay from 2018-02-05T06:00
We’ve encountered a few frustrating setbacks with our beach duplex renovation, but thanks to a small technicality we were finally able to charge ahead and start d...
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#82: What It's Really Like To Live In A Tiny House from 2018-01-29T06:00
If you’ve ever had dreams (or maybe nightmares?) of living in a tiny house, you’re not alone. Lots of people have lots of different feelings about them. So we cal...
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#81: ...And Then Our Pipes Froze from 2018-01-22T06:00
The beach house has thrown us plenty of curveballs, but frozen pipes was not something we ever saw coming. This nailbiter had a (mostly) happy ending, except for ...
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#80: How We Knew It Was Time To Move from 2018-01-15T06:00
Making the decision to move is one of those big life-changing choices, and we learned the hard way that doing it under the wrong circumstances might not work out ...
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#79: A Dateline-Worthy True Crime At The Beach House?! from 2018-01-08T06:00
When a neighbor shared some historic documents about our 100 year old beach house, we were stunned to find a story from 1936 of jealousy and even murder. So this ...
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#78: How We (Mostly) Pulled Off A Merry Yet Minimal Christmas from 2018-01-01T06:00
Christmas often flies in the face of our efforts to cut down on clutter and simplify the stuff in our house, so this year we employed 4 tactics to minimize all th...
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#77: Sherry Vs. The Bathtub, Beach House Edition from 2017-12-18T06:00
The beach house feels like it’s coming together in fast motion these days. After over a year of working on it, we can’t believe it finally has working appliances,...
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#76: So About That Beach Duplex We Bought… from 2017-12-11T06:00
You haven’t heard a lot about the duplex that we bought three months ago. It might seem like not much is happening, but we’re actually working on three things beh...
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#75: It’s The Most Clutterful Time Of The Year from 2017-12-04T06:00
As much as we love the holidays, all the “stuff” that goes along with it (gifts, decor, things piling up on every surface) can get overwhelming. So this week we’re sharing how we’re approaching ...
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#74: The Big Fight We Had Over A Fridge from 2017-11-27T06:00
People always ask if we ever argue, especially with all the house projects we tackle together. Well, the short answer is yes. And the speed bumps we hit while ins...
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#73: The Secret Power Of Mistakes, Setbacks, And Almost Getting Sued from 2017-11-20T06:00
Young House Love turned 10 years old this fall (!!!) so we're looking back at our last decade of renovating houses, building a business, and making plenty of mistakes along the way - all while o...
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#72: Welp, There Goes The Living Room! from 2017-11-13T06:00
What we thought would be an easy swap of an old sectional for a new sofa has turned our living room on its head. So this week we’re sharing how we’re rethinking t...
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#71: Why You Don’t See Childproofing Stuff In Our House from 2017-11-06T06:00
Keeping your kids safe at home is hugely important and creating a house that looks nice but is also livable (and not too precious) is basically the holy grail. So...
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#70: The Craziness Behind Our Rachael Ray Show Appearance from 2017-10-30T05:00
Our week was sent into a tailspin when we got a last-minute invitation to appear on The Rachael Ray Show, and within 24 hours we were on a plane to New York so we...
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#69: The Upside To The End Of Fixer Upper from 2017-10-23T05:00
This week John is laying out why he thinks the end of HGTV’s Fixer Upper might actually bring some good things, and Sherry’s revealing the secret screw-up that al...
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#68: There’s No Shame In The Fake Plant Game from 2017-10-16T05:00
This week we’re giving a listener whose house flooded after Hurricane Harvey some advice on finding the right people to help get her kitchen back together again a...
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#67: What We Regret About Our Previous Home Renos from 2017-10-09T05:00
When we look back at how we updated our previous homes, there are more than a few design decisions we regret - so we're breaking down five things that we’d go bac...
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#66: Are Meal Delivery Kits Worth It? from 2017-10-02T05:00
Some people have declared the stainless steel appliance trend over (cue the gasps!). We used stainless appliances in our kitchen, but have decided against them fo...
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#65: When Multi-Purpose Rooms Drive You Multi-Shades Of Crazy from 2017-09-25T05:00
We’ve probably all got dual purpose rooms like a mudroom-slash-laundry room, a breakfast-nook-slash-homework-spot, or the ol’ guest-room-slash-office. So today we...
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#64: How We Paid Off The Mortgage On Our House (!!!) from 2017-09-18T05:00
We’ve got some big news this week that you probably didn’t see coming (also: we might be crazy). Plus we share how we were able to pay off our mortgage (!!) and h...
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#63: Let’s Talk About Money&How To Spend It Smarter from 2017-09-11T05:00
Who wouldn’t want more money in the ol’ bank account? So we picked a money expert’s brain for the most common places he finds his clients overspending, and for hi...
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#62: What The New Owners Changed In Our Old Houses from 2017-08-28T05:00
Watching your former homes get altered by their new owners can be tough, and we witnessed some changes that bothered us more than we expected. This week we’re sha...
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#61: How To Conquer Paper Clutter (Once And For All!) from 2017-08-21T05:00
When it comes to paper clutter around the house, the struggle is real. Where does it come from? Is it in the rabbit family, because HOW IS IT MULTIPLYING?! We get...
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#60: Game-Changing Organization Tips From The Pros from 2017-08-14T05:00
We’ve been on an organizing bender lately, so we called up pro organizers to the stars (yes, they’ve done Gwyneth Paltrow’s pantry!) and Target’s new home organizing experts: The Home Edit. Clea...
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#59: The Renovation Rollercoaster That Brought Sherry to Tears from 2017-08-07T05:00
It’s been a busy few weeks on our beach house renovation and they’ve been... well... less than smooth, to say the least. So this week we’re taking you through the...
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#58: Why We Stopped Sharing Our Kids On The Internet from 2017-07-31T05:00
When does sharing things about your kids online become oversharing? And how do older kids who have grown up on their parents' blogs and social media feeds feel ab...
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#57: The Home Design Choices That Drive Us Crazy from 2017-07-24T05:00
Decorating is incredibly subjective, and everyone has design choices they L...
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#56: The Big Mistake We Made Selling Our House By Owner from 2017-07-17T05:00
With another wave of decluttering washing over our house, we’re looking back at our last yard sale and the strange trick we used to make it a fast-selling success...
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#55: What’s Feng Shui? And Are We Screwing It Up? from 2017-07-10T05:00
This week we talk about a fun new design assignment we’ve taken on (our first commercial space!) and we finally have some good news in the beach house department!...
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#54: What We’d Change About Our $4000 Backyard Wedding from 2017-07-03T05:00
Back in July of 2007, we couldn’t imagine getting married any other way than exactly how we did: a small sweet wedding held in our very own backyard. But fast for...
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#53: The Curveball That Blew Our Beach House Timeline from 2017-06-26T05:00
Sherry has taken on a new side job that John's steering clear of, and - spoiler alert - it has already given her a good excuse to go shopping. Plus, we’ve missed our goal of being able to spend ...
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#52: Six Phone Calls That Saved Us $1,500 from 2017-06-19T05:00
We don’t always see eye-to-eye when it comes to purchases for our home, so this week we’re sharing some strategies we’ve developed for helping the other person se...
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#51: Why We Want To Tear The Deck Off Our House from 2017-06-05T05:00
It may seem counterintuitive (don’t most people want to add a deck?!), but ous is GIANT and it’s just not pulling its weight anymore. So you can find out why we t...
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#50: Behind The Scenes - Regrets, Bloopers,&Beyonce from 2017-05-29T05:00
We’re celebrating fifty episodes and one year of podcasting (!!!) with a special episode that takes you behind the scenes and unearths some of our weirdest moment...
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#49: The Problem With Following Decorating Trends from 2017-05-22T05:00
There’s no denying that we’ve fallen hard for the color pink over the last few years, and we’re certainly not alone (Millennial Pink, anyone?). So today we're talking about the color trend that’...
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#48: The Not-So-Peachy Parts Of Our Beach House Renovation from 2017-05-15T05:00
Making over our beach house isn’t all rainbows and unicorns and pink siding. So this week we’re diving into a few tasks that have been especially stressful - and ...
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#47: How Do You Know If It’s Your “Forever House”? from 2017-05-08T05:00
What happens when you aren’t sure if your current house is your long-term house? And if it’s not, how do you know when to stop improving it? We’re tackling those ...
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#46: The New Home Habit That's Saving Us Nearly $1,000! from 2017-05-01T05:00
We did it! We finally cut the cable cord (thanks in part to your suggestions) and now we’re spilling how it all went down and, more importantly, how it’ll save us tons of money this year! And ye...
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#45: Why We Got Rid Of Half The Toys In Our House from 2017-04-24T05:00
We had an “a-ha” moment while we were away on spring break, which led to a HUGE whole-house purge (including lots and lots of toys) and a ridiculously surprising ...
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#44: Are Open Floor Plans Over? from 2017-04-10T05:00
This week we’re sounding off on an article that says open floor plans should be a thing of the past. We’ve been known to knock down walls and widen doorways to ad...
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#43: A Surprise Birthday Adventure&YAY, COLOR! from 2017-04-03T05:00
One of the hardest things to master at home is mixing color and pattern (which can look CRAZY Listen
#42: How We Budget For Big Projects Without Going Broke from 2017-03-27T05:00
As we find ourselves in the midst of our biggest and most pocket-draining project ever, on this week's episode we’re sharing our system for planning and managing our spending during any large sc...
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#41: The Realities (And Not So Realities) Of Those TV Makeovers from 2017-03-20T05:00
In this week's episode we go behind the scenes of a home makeover show with Candis and Andy Meredith, who tell us how they got their HGTV show and what surprised ...
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#40: Going On Vacation For "Research" from 2017-03-13T05:00
This week we're sharing how a recent weekend getaway to a small cottage turned into a reconnaissance mission for our own vacation rental project. Plus, f
#39: How To Make House Cleaning Suck A Little Less from 2017-03-06T06:00
Guess what? Even pro house cleaners hate cleaning. So we asked YouTube cleaning guru Melissa Maker to share her secrets for making your cleaning chores faster, mo...
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#38: How The Internet Changed&How Our Lives Changed With It from 2017-02-27T06:00
In this special episode, we’re talking about the unpredictable and sometimes dramatic ways that we’ve seen the internet change in the last decade. Has social medi...
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#37: To Brass... Or Not To Brass? from 2017-02-20T06:00
In this episode we’re talking about what women “should” and “shouldn’t” have around the house (Sherry’s guilty of at least one!) and we’re diving deep into the qu...
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#36: A BIG Beach House Update&Reflecting On Rejection from 2017-02-13T06:00
In this long overdue update on our beach house renovation, you’ll hear how we’ve got some walls going up and many others coming down - and why we’ve changed our m...
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#35: When Someone You Love Gives You Something You Don't from 2017-02-06T06:00
What should you do when a sentimental hand-me-down just doesn't fit in with the rest of your home? And if you try and try but just can’t find a way to love it, do...
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#34: And Just Like That, The Beach House Threw Us A Bone from 2017-01-30T06:00
This week we count down our five favorite tricks for adding flow to any space so it feels larger and less cramped. We also divulge a big financial plus for buying...
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#33: In Pursuit Of Buying Less&Doing More from 2017-01-23T13:31:17
What’s it really like to downsize? We talk with House*Tweaking blogger Da...
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#32: The Stuff In Our House We Don’t Show You from 2017-01-16T06:00
When a listener asked about the strange habits or odd things you might uncover in our house, we jumped at the chance to pull back the curtain and call each other ...
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#31: We Picked A Beach House Color (In The Weirdest Way) from 2017-01-09T06:00
We didn’t find love in a hopeless place, but we found a beach house color in a surprising one. Yes, several weeks, multiple test swatches, and 1,500 comments late...
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#30: How Minimalism Almost Grinched Our Christmas from 2017-01-02T06:00
We asked you to call in with your house-related resolutions for 2017, and boy did you guys deliver! In this episode we play some of our favorite listener voicemai...
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#29: An Unexpected Con To Calling In A Pro from 2016-12-19T06:00
When you’re hiring out renovation work in your home it can be exciting and awesome.. and sometimes it can be deflating and frustrating… which was the case recentl...
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#28: Why Can’t We Pick A Dang Paint Color? from 2016-12-12T06:00
Who has 7 kids, a gorgeous Brazilian vacation house, and is on this week’s podcast? The Novogratz, of course! This week Robert and Cortney talk to us about creati...
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#27: Finding Focus When You Just Wanna Renovate All The Things from 2016-12-05T06:00
This week we talk about pacing yourself through your home renovations, so your eagerness to make changes doesn’t get you in deeper than your budget, time, or abil...
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#26: Are You Sitting Down? We’ve Got Big News. from 2016-11-28T06:00
We’ve got something pretty major that we couldn’t wait to share with you on this week’s podcast (Sherry almost can’t contain herself). We’re also chatting with de...
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#25: Let’s All Stop Freaking Out About Holiday Decorating from 2016-11-21T06:00
Christmas is around the corner, which means so is the fun (and the frenzied chaos) of the season. So this week we’re sharing how we decorate our house for the hol...
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#24: Renovating A Kitchen In Under A Week (Crazytown!) from 2016-11-14T06:00
Our friends from the blog Chris Loves Julia have renovated three kitchens in three years - and they’ve even redone a kitchen in under 6 days (!!!). So yeah, they ...
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#23: Mo House, Mo Problems? from 2016-11-07T06:00
Coming at you from a hotel room in Baltimore, this week we answer three callers seeking home-related updates, from how things are holding up years later to whethe...
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#22: Project Paralysis Is A Real Thing, And We’ve Got It Bad from 2016-10-31T05:00
You know when you just can’t seem to find your momentum on a certain home task? Well, today we fess up to one that’s had us stuck for months. We also get to talk ...
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#21: How The Heck Do We DIY With Kids Around? from 2016-10-24T05:00
How the heck does any home improvement get done with kiddos in the mix? We’ve been asked this question countless times (and have wondered it ourselves in more tha...
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#20: White Walls: Overrated? Overdone? Or Still Totally Awesome? from 2016-10-17T05:00
We’ve all seen the ubiquitous white wall trend, but do bloggers and designers just choose them because they look good in photos? In person do they feel bright & c...
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#19: Why We Didn’t DIY Our Entire Kitchen Remodel from 2016-10-10T05:00
When is it best to do something yourself and when should you hire it out? We faced that question a lot during our big kitchen remodel, and today we’re discussing ...
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#18: Grace Bonney Talks Design, Blogs,&Girl Bosses from 2016-10-03T07:00
Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney shares what 12 years of design blogging has taught her about her style, the Internet, and why there’s no such thing as work-lif...
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#17: Our Latest (And Largest Ever!) Home Renovation from 2016-09-26T07:00
We’ve been working on a HUGE project at home and we’re excited to be spilling the beans about it here first! Also on this week’s episode, we help a listener who’s...
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#16: Squashing DIY Fears With Ana White from 2016-09-19T07:00
In this episode, we chat with furniture designer and tool ninja Ana White about how she found the courage to dive into building everything from beds and bookcases...
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#15: How Fancy Is Too Fancy For A College Dorm? from 2016-09-12T07:00
Thanks to some college students catching national attention with their extravagant dorm decor, we share where we fall in this debate and open up about our own exp...
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#14: What Quitting Our Blog Taught Us from 2016-09-05T07:00
In this special episode, you’ll hear what we learned from taking nearly 12 months off from blogging thanks to the closing talk that we gave (and taped!) at the Ha...
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#13: Houses Are Overwhelming, So Where Do I Start? from 2016-08-29T07:00
Is there a “right” order when it comes to decorating or renovating a home? What comes first, the paint or the furniture? The big renovations or the small updates?...
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#12: Five Rug Rules&Flipping Out With Jenni Pulos from 2016-08-22T07:00
If your relationship with area rugs is best described as “it’s complicated”, well, this is the episode for you. We’re sharing five simple rug rules to help you ch...
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#11: When Design Styles Collide At Home from 2016-08-15T07:00
What happens when you and your partner have different design aesthetics? In this episode, we share what works in our house...
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#10: Our New Shed Might Be Trying To Kill Us from 2016-08-08T07:00
In this episode, we share a trio of recent mishaps, from a yard project that went awry and an anniversary gift that got away from us to the random event that near...
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#9: Genevieve Gorder Solves Decorating Dilemmas Aplenty from 2016-08-01T07:00
One of the O.G.s of design TV, Genevieve Gorder, offers up a slew of solutions to common design challenges, like mixing patterns, making small spaces feel bigger,...
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#8: Three Pro Bloggers Get Real About Sponsored Posts from 2016-07-25T07:00
In this special episode, we have a candid talk about sponsored posts with Emily Henderson (Style By Emily Henderson), Justina Blakeney (The Jungalow), and Nicole ...
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#7: What Your House Should Look Like When You're 30 from 2016-07-18T07:00
Is there a magical age when your house starts feeling more grown-up? In this episode we discuss what three well-known design sites think should (and shouldn't!) b...
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#6: Oh Nothing, Just Talking To Tiffani Thiessen from 2016-07-11T07:00
We talk with Tiffani Thiessen about designing her kitchen, cooking for celebs on her show Dinner at Tiffani’s Listen
#5: The Rug Mistake We Made For Years from 2016-07-04T07:00
Designer and fellow ceramic animal enthusiast Jonathan Adler gives us a call and imparts his decorating wisdom, we share h...
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#4: Decorating Do's&Don'ts From Designer Orlando Soria from 2016-06-27T07:00
Interior designer Orlando Soria gives smart advice for navigating common decorating challenges like finding your style, mixing patterns, and figuring out where th...
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#3: Why Decluttering Makes Your Head Hurt from 2016-06-20T07:00
Designer Sarah Richardson shares one of her biggest makeover mistakes, which prompts us to reflect upon a design fail that we’ve made not once, but twice! We also...
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#2: Design TV Secrets with HGTV’s Sabrina Soto from 2016-06-09T03:34:59
Designer and TV host Sabrina Soto opens up about what she loves, hates, and has cried over in her 9 years of making design television. Plus, we hear how motherhoo...
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#1: What Rich People Have In Their Houses from 2016-06-09T03:30:04
In this episode, we discuss what the internet thinks are found in “rich households” and talk about some easy ways we can all make our own homes feel a little fanc...
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