
Young House Love We got a Christmas card yesterday featuring a phot of our friends sitting in their freshly tiled shower with line "Wishing you a happy, healthy, construction-free holiday." Oh the irony...

Young House Love Update: the time is now 11:53pm and JOHN HAS FINISHED TILING THE TUB/SHOWER SURROUND! Happy dance in progress. Tomorrow night it's onto the floor...

Young House Love Announcement: my husband is a tiling fool. He's working at warp speed. End of announcement.

Young House Love Check out Sherry's interview about how we love to countdown to Christmas over on Live Creating Yourself. Fun questions!
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Welcome to LCY: a Chicago graphic designer's daily musings on interiors, fashion, travel, photography, graphic design, and anything else that pops up along the way...

When Barbara sent us her almost-too-good-to-be-true before and after photos we couldn’t wait to share the eye candy. Here’s her letter:I have been enjoying your blog and thought I would send over my most recent remodeling project. My parents bought a home that was built in the 70̵...
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After all of the fun we had reading your entries on this week’s giveaway, we’re starting to think every giveaway question from now on should be “tell us something weird about yourself.” Seriously. You guys were crazy entertaining (mainly because a lot of you are just as cr...
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Yesterday we learned that Young House Love was named one of the World’s Best Design Blogs by The London Times when we shockingly noticed our name on their top fifty list. Insanely enough we came in at number twelve. As in, they think we’re the 12th best design blog in the world. Isn&#...
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Keira hey YHL.. our houses are about the same age.. is your bathtub extremely gritty and for lack of any other adjective DISGUSTING like ours? It looks like the same shape as ours and we've been trying to figure out how to resurface it rather than try and replace the big ol' thing?

Young House Love is just starting our Christmas shopping. Today. Can you say last minute?

Young House Love Woah, the London Times put together a list of the World's 50 Best Design Blogs and we made #12. How crazy is that?? Consider us flattered!
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These blogs are full of inspired home-styling ideas, suggestions of how to support small-scale, affordable designers selling handmade items and vintage and modern homeware, as well as tips for upcycling old furniture.

Jonel’s blank slate of a living room is raw and ready for a major update. Here’s her letter:My living room needs help! I don’t know my exact style but I would like a comfortable, light, and airy living space. I like country with a bit of casual modern. I also like natural items....
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We’re back to share a quick and easy window-frosting tutorial as promised last week. We knew our basement windows were completely devoid of privacy and therefore could use a bit of cover, but we didn’t want to hang heavy blinds that we kept perpetually closed since that would definite...
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Michelle Can you tell me how you hung the blinds in your laundry nook? I can not tell if they are from the ceiling???

Young House Love Uh oh, Richmond's West Elm store is closing! But they've got everything 15% as a small consolation...
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The West Elm furniture store at Short Pump Town Center will close January 18.











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