Latest Houselove Podcast Episodes
#90: What To Do When A Project Starts To Suck
Young House Love Has A Podcast - March 26, 2018 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWe all know that deflated feeling when you’ve lost your mojo for a major project or renovation. So how do you reignite that excitement or energy you had for it in the first place? We’ve struggled with this at the beach house lately, so we’re sharing five tips for combating project fatigue. Plus ...
#89: A Year Without Shopping
Young House Love Has A Podcast - March 19, 2018 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsCould you put your wallet on lockdown for 365 days? Sherry shared the story of a woman who did, including why she took on the challenge, the few exceptions she allowed to make it possible, and how it’s inspiring us to adjust our spending... and maybe even try out a ban of our own. Plus, how much...
#88: Whatever Happened To Privacy In The Bathroom?
Young House Love Has A Podcast - March 12, 2018 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsDoorless bathrooms? Toilets behind glass walls? Showers and tubs just sitting in the corner of the bedroom? These “open concept” bathroom trends seem to be showing up more often, and they’re alarming to some and exciting to others. So this week we attempt to understand what sparked this growing ...
#87: Lessons From The Messiest Homes In America
Young House Love Has A Podcast - March 05, 2018 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsIt’s never fun to get a call saying that you have to tear down something that you just SPENT AN ENTIRE WEEKEND CONSTRUCTING, but that’s exactly what happened with our beach house bunk beds. So this week we’re sharing what went down behind the scenes, and what we did to get around it. Plus, we’re...
#86: How Our Life Together Almost Didn’t Happen
Young House Love Has A Podcast - February 26, 2018 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWe’re getting personal this week, and sharing some early setbacks and hard choices that almost steered our lives in a totally different direction - no houses, no blog, even no marriage! We also dive into how some failed attempts at making over a certain area of our home led to us giving up and c...
#85: What We Got Wrong In Our Beach House Kitchen
Young House Love Has A Podcast - February 19, 2018 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsThis week John's fessing up to a design choice that he insisted we make in our beach house kitchen, but we now realize was - shall we say - misguided? Thankfully it's not too hard to undo, so we're explaining our change of heart, and what we're doing to fix it. There’s also a polarizing design “...
#84: Things We Can’t Agree On Lately
Young House Love Has A Podcast - February 12, 2018 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWe don’t always see eye-to-eye on our projects and decorating decisions. In fact, we’re stuck in the midst of some pretty "active" home arguments right now. So in honor of Valentine's Day, we're sharing everything we love about each other. Just kidding, that would be boring. We’re walking you th...
#83: The Loophole We Found In Our Duplex Delay
Young House Love Has A Podcast - February 05, 2018 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWe’ve encountered a few frustrating setbacks with our beach duplex renovation, but thanks to a small technicality we were finally able to charge ahead and start demolition. Gotta love a loophole! So we're sharing our work-around, and the surprising thing that was discovered during demo. Plus, wh...
#82: What It's Really Like To Live In A Tiny House
Young House Love Has A Podcast - January 29, 2018 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsIf you’ve ever had dreams (or maybe nightmares?) of living in a tiny house, you’re not alone. Lots of people have lots of different feelings about them. So we called up a couple who have lived in an 188 square foot space for over two years, and we asked them all of your burning questions to find...
#81: ...And Then Our Pipes Froze
Young House Love Has A Podcast - January 22, 2018 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsThe beach house has thrown us plenty of curveballs, but frozen pipes was not something we ever saw coming. This nailbiter had a (mostly) happy ending, except for one stupid move we made in the final moments. Plus, is expensive high-end paint really worth it, or are you better off sticking with t...
#80: How We Knew It Was Time To Move
Young House Love Has A Podcast - January 15, 2018 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsMaking the decision to move is one of those big life-changing choices, and we learned the hard way that doing it under the wrong circumstances might not work out as well as it could for you in the long run. So this week we’re sharing our own personal test for knowing when the time is right to mo...
#79: A Dateline-Worthy True Crime At The Beach House?!
Young House Love Has A Podcast - January 08, 2018 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWhen a neighbor shared some historic documents about our 100 year old beach house, we were stunned to find a story from 1936 of jealousy and even murder. So this week we’re sharing what we learned along with some other surprising facts about our old home’s past. We're also helping a listener fin...
#78: How We (Mostly) Pulled Off A Merry Yet Minimal Christmas
Young House Love Has A Podcast - January 01, 2018 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsChristmas often flies in the face of our efforts to cut down on clutter and simplify the stuff in our house, so this year we employed 4 tactics to minimize all the excess without sacrificing the merriment of Christmas morning. And it worked! Well mostly (there was one memorable fail). We also bo...
#77: Sherry Vs. The Bathtub, Beach House Edition
Young House Love Has A Podcast - December 18, 2017 06:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsThe beach house feels like it’s coming together in fast motion these days. After over a year of working on it, we can’t believe it finally has working appliances, a kitchen island, even a functioning kitchen sink! But taking the freshly plumbed clawfoot tub for a spin didn’t exactly work out the...
#76: So About That Beach Duplex We Bought…
Young House Love Has A Podcast - December 11, 2017 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsYou haven’t heard a lot about the duplex that we bought three months ago. It might seem like not much is happening, but we’re actually working on three things behind the scenes that are inching us closer to demo day! We also learn what really goes into creating a home magazine (the good, the bad...
#75: It’s The Most Clutterful Time Of The Year
Young House Love Has A Podcast - December 04, 2017 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsAs much as we love the holidays, all the “stuff” that goes along with it (gifts, decor, things piling up on every surface) can get overwhelming. So this week we’re sharing how we’re approaching things differently in an effort to maintain the joy of the season. And one of the most common question...
#74: The Big Fight We Had Over A Fridge
Young House Love Has A Podcast - November 27, 2017 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsPeople always ask if we ever argue, especially with all the house projects we tackle together. Well, the short answer is yes. And the speed bumps we hit while installing our beach house kitchen are a perfect example of what can spark a spat. So we’re sharing what we fought about, how we solved i...
#73: The Secret Power Of Mistakes, Setbacks, And Almost Getting Sued
Young House Love Has A Podcast - November 20, 2017 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsYoung House Love turned 10 years old this fall (!!!) so we're looking back at our last decade of renovating houses, building a business, and making plenty of mistakes along the way - all while on a public stage called the world wide web. You’ll hear how both in decorating and in business there w...
#72: Welp, There Goes The Living Room!
Young House Love Has A Podcast - November 13, 2017 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWhat we thought would be an easy swap of an old sectional for a new sofa has turned our living room on its head. So this week we’re sharing how we’re rethinking the layout and reinventing the space to work a little harder. We're also sharing countertop pros & cons, since we've lived with 3 diffe...
#71: Why You Don’t See Childproofing Stuff In Our House
Young House Love Has A Podcast - November 06, 2017 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsKeeping your kids safe at home is hugely important and creating a house that looks nice but is also livable (and not too precious) is basically the holy grail. So this week we’re sharing specific tricks and tips for how we childproofed our house without running down the safety aisle and buying e...
#70: The Craziness Behind Our Rachael Ray Show Appearance
Young House Love Has A Podcast - October 30, 2017 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsOur week was sent into a tailspin when we got a last-minute invitation to appear on The Rachael Ray Show, and within 24 hours we were on a plane to New York so we could DIY in front of a live studio audience the very next morning. As you can imagine, we have some pretty hilarious stories from be...
#69: The Upside To The End Of Fixer Upper
Young House Love Has A Podcast - October 23, 2017 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsThis week John is laying out why he thinks the end of HGTV’s Fixer Upper might actually bring some good things, and Sherry’s revealing the secret screw-up that almost ruined our beach house floors. Plus If you’ve ever dreamed about buying a second property or wading into the real estate investin...
#68: There’s No Shame In The Fake Plant Game
Young House Love Has A Podcast - October 16, 2017 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsThis week we’re giving a listener whose house flooded after Hurricane Harvey some advice on finding the right people to help get her kitchen back together again after the storm. We also share why we’re loving a new “smart” platform for buying and selling secondhand stuff. And we’re sharing a ser...
#67: What We Regret About Our Previous Home Renos
Young House Love Has A Podcast - October 09, 2017 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWhen we look back at how we updated our previous homes, there are more than a few design decisions we regret - so we're breaking down five things that we’d go back and do differently if we had a time machine. And ding-dong, the deck is gone! Yup, we ripped that monster off the house, and the yar...
#66: Are Meal Delivery Kits Worth It?
Young House Love Has A Podcast - October 02, 2017 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsSome people have declared the stainless steel appliance trend over (cue the gasps!). We used stainless appliances in our kitchen, but have decided against them for our beach house, so we're weighing in on when you might want to pull the trigger on stainless - or avoid it completely. And speaking...
#65: When Multi-Purpose Rooms Drive You Multi-Shades Of Crazy
Young House Love Has A Podcast - September 25, 2017 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWe’ve probably all got dual purpose rooms like a mudroom-slash-laundry room, a breakfast-nook-slash-homework-spot, or the ol’ guest-room-slash-office. So today we’re sharing the key to making one space actually work in multiple ways - instead of feeling like it does one thing waaay better than t...
#64: How We Paid Off The Mortgage On Our House (!!!)
Young House Love Has A Podcast - September 18, 2017 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWe’ve got some big news this week that you probably didn’t see coming (also: we might be crazy). Plus we share how we were able to pay off our mortgage (!!) and how the groundwork we laid over a decade ago in our first house made it all possible. We also chat about stuff you should NOT pass down...
#63: Let’s Talk About Money & How To Spend It Smarter
Young House Love Has A Podcast - September 11, 2017 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWho wouldn’t want more money in the ol’ bank account? So we picked a money expert’s brain for the most common places he finds his clients overspending, and for his best tips on making (and sticking to!) an easy household budget - which is definitely the key to saving more each month. Plus we sha...
#62: What The New Owners Changed In Our Old Houses
Young House Love Has A Podcast - August 28, 2017 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWatching your former homes get altered by their new owners can be tough, and we witnessed some changes that bothered us more than we expected. This week we’re sharing how we got over those feelings and how to find the silver lining in seeing someone undo your designs. We also took a long overdue...
#61: How To Conquer Paper Clutter (Once And For All!)
Young House Love Has A Podcast - August 21, 2017 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsWhen it comes to paper clutter around the house, the struggle is real. Where does it come from? Is it in the rabbit family, because HOW IS IT MULTIPLYING?! We get it. And this week we’re sharing exactly how we keep it at bay (and exactly where we put everything, from receipts and school papers t...