YHL In Hands-on!

It is at last here. The first of our three before & after features in BHG’s Do It Yourself Magazine simply hit the newsstands.

You may remember us mentioning the two day photo shoot back in October, and later passing along all the lessons we learned from watching professional stylists beautify each room in our house. And now we are quite excited for you to see the fruits of all that labor – all 10 pages of it!

If you recall, we are especially proud of this feature because we in fact got to write it ourselves – marking our first national magazine writing gig (ooh, the pressure!). You can read the text of each page here on DIYideas.com or pick it up in all its glossy glory at Barnes & Noble, Target, Home Depot, or fairly much anywhere else a variety of mags are sold. Oh and simply be sure that you are grabbing the Spring 2009 issue since we spotted a few lingering Winter 2008’s hanging around.

The before photos may look familiar, but you are sure to dig the fresh way they styled our “afters.” Plus there is tons of other good stuff in the rest of the issue, from a pair of remarkable bathroom transformations and a Los Angeles cottage makeover to a few invaluable painting pointers.

And of course we wanna know what you folks think! Beyond our little write-up we’d enjoy to know what articles are your faves (and which Hands-on projects you might in fact take on). Oh and Part II of our before & after story will be out in a few months, so stay tuned…