Young House Love turned 10 this fall, so we’re taking a look back at a decade of renovating homes, growing a business, and learning—often the hard way—while doing it all in public on the world wide web. Both in decorating and in business there were defining moments that shaped where we are today. Many of those moments didn’t feel good at the time; some felt downright awful. But they were all part of the journey.
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Presentation Slides
- Below are highlights from our recent presentation in Bristol, VA. The episode provides full context—essentially ten years condensed into about 30 minutes.
Here’s a peek at our site in the early days. Design and coding skills have definitely improved over the last decade.
- The slide below highlights paint color mistakes from our first house. Read more about that here and tour our first home’s before-and-afters here. For tips on gray undertones and choosing paint, this post about picking the right paint color is helpful.
Here’s a laugh: our first month earning from Google AdSense was $10.59. Not a fortune, but enough for a couple of paintbrushes—progress!
- The slide below shows early magazine features. We’ve shared behind-the-scenes details from various shoots—DIY Magazine and The Nest—and yes, Burger often steals the spotlight.
- Below is a look at making our first book, Young House Love. We’ve posted behind-the-scenes content about that process as well.
- Here are some glimpses of our second house that we mentioned during the talk. Visit our House Tour page to see the full tour.
- We also talked about our feature on The Oprah Winfrey Network—there’s more about that in a previous post. The projector’s low color saturation gave us a funny “vampire” photo, which we still laugh about.
- The next slides show the evolution of our lighting line. We documented the initial launch and later updates, and displayed product examples from that line.
- The slide below offers a quick look at our showhouse; the full tour is available in our photo gallery.
- This slide represents our second book, Lovable Livable Home. We also shared photos from the book tour and other related content.
Here are the photos of the beach house we shared. The right-hand image was taken during demo; the other images show how it looked when we first bought it.
And this final slide includes a shot of the duplex and a sneak peek at our next big project. Listen to the podcast for the full scoop.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A big thank you to Modsy for sponsoring this episode. Visit Modsy to see how they reimagined our angled bonus room as a restful master suite—it almost convinced Sherry to move the bed. Use code YHL20 for 20% off your first Modsy room. (This past promotion included a limited-time 50% offer during the weekend of Nov 24–27.)
Thanks for listening, everyone!
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