Young House Love celebrated its 10th anniversary this fall, so we’re reflecting on a decade of renovating homes, growing a business, and learning through plenty of mistakes — all while sharing it publicly online. Some turning points in decorating and business were crucial to getting us where we are today. Many of those moments didn’t feel good at the time; some felt downright awful, but they shaped everything that followed.
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Presentation Slides
- Below are key slides from our recent presentation in Bristol, VA. Listen to the episode for the full context — essentially ten years of our lives summed up in about 30 minutes.
Here’s a glimpse of our early site design. Blog layouts and our coding skills have come a long way in ten years.
- The slide below shows the paint color mistakes from our first house. You can read more about our evolving color palette and tour our first home’s before-and-afters to see how things changed. A post on picking paint colors offers tips for avoiding gray undertones and other common pitfalls.
Here’s our first month of earnings from Google AdSense — $10.59. It still makes us laugh, but that’s two free paint brushes worth to us, so we’ll take it.
- Early magazine features helped introduce our work to more readers. We shared behind-the-scenes looks at shoots and talked about media experiences — including some memorable photos and moments from those shoots.
- Below is a peek at making our first book, Young House Love, with some behind-the-scenes moments from the process.
- We also shared glimpses of our second house during the talk. For a full tour, visit our House Tour page to see the whole renovation and how the spaces evolved.
- We wrote about being featured on The Oprah Winfrey Network and shared a funny projector photo from that appearance — the low saturation made us look like vampires in the still image.
- The next slides show the evolution of our lighting line. We talked about launching the initial collection and later updates, and highlighted some of the designs that were part of the line.
- We included a quick peek at our showhouse in the presentation. A full tour is available for anyone who wants to explore every room and the details we showed there.
- Another slide highlighted our second book, Lovable Livable Home, and we shared photos and memories from the book tour.
We showed photos of a beach house project, including a demo shot and images of how the property looked when we first bought it.
Finally, one slide offered a glimpse of a duplex and teased our next big project — you’ll have to listen to the podcast for the full scoop.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A big thank you to Modsy for sponsoring this episode. They reimagined our awkward angled bonus room as a calm master suite — almost enough to make Sherry want to move our bed in there. Use the promo codes mentioned in the episode for savings on your first Modsy room during the promotional period.
Thanks for listening!
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