Odds & Ends
HGTV’s “Green” Home
If you’ve caught any HGTV lately, then you already know about their Green Home sweepstakes. Just like their annual Dream Home giveaway, you can enter (once a day through tomorrow, by the way) to win an extravagant home in a gorgeous location (holy property taxes, batman). The obvious twist this time is that [...]
Another Dirty Little Secret
We’ve been sneaky. No, not living-a-double-life sneaky… secret-vacation sneaky. That’s right. John and I quietly slipped away to a tiny series of islands off the west coast of Florida and have spent the past seven days swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, eating boatloads of seafood, blogging from the beach, and working on our tans [...]
Hue Knew?
While celebrating Easter in Northern Virginia, my parents dropped a copy of The Washington Post in my lap that featured a BIG collection of articles on the blog world’s recent love affair with paint color. Blogs? Paint? Yes please.
The lead article focuses on two colorful blogs. (And no, This Young House wasn’t [...]
Dryin’ To The Oldies
A recent bout of spring cleaning turned into an archaeological dig when Sherry uncovered this piece of ancient history:
Ok, so it’s no dinosaur bone, but who expects to find something this dated in their own filing cabinet? What we had stumbled upon was the installation manual for our old - wait, scratch that - REALLY [...]
The White Stuff
Here’s a little weekend entertainment. Over the past week, a blog called “Stuff White People Like” has been mentioned to us on three separate occasions. In case you haven’t received the inevitable e-mail forward with a link yet, now you’ll be in the know.
It’s a sarcastic website (read: no need to be offended) [...]
Our New Home(page)
Here she is, the freshly renovated This Young House.
First things first - do you like it? Please be brutally honest, well, not totally brutal…
Second, a quick background on the new page. We owe a lot to Making It Lovely, our go-to site for blogspiration. When we saw her recent redesign, lightning [...]
Another Total Makeover
By now you know what this blog is about. Two people making over a house to rid it of its dated style and truly make it their own. So we figured it was about time the same thing happened to this blog.
Over the past two weeks I’ve been learning a functional amount of coding [...]
