Young House Love

| By Sherry Petersik | June 30, 2009 | 57 Comments

How To Grow Free Plants From Clippings

Philodendrons are sort of like aliens. You can clone them! Here’s how you can get free house plants by snipping stems off the ones you already have.

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| By Sherry Petersik | June 30, 2009 | 35 Comments

How To Draw A Chalk Mural On Your Wall

We created some interesting wall art in our dining room with plain old chalk. Here’s how to seal it so it sticks around…

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| By John Petersik | June 29, 2009 | 1,145 Comments

Fab Freebie: Straight From The Art

Artful Home has thousands of art pieces made by professional artists. And there’s four of ’em to choose from this week right here. Enter through Wed, July 1st.

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| By Sherry Petersik | June 29, 2009 | 81 Comments

8 Ways To Avoid Dangerous Chemicals At Home

Meet my über intelligent little brother* Dan. Growing up I was always referred to as “the creative one” which was the family’s way of saying “not the prodigy” which was my brother’s territory. It wasn’t that I was dumb, I routinely made the honor roll and even got accepted early admission into a prestigious university art program in NYC (graduating with only 13 others in my major). But Dan was a bit hard to compete with in the brains department. In high school he took nine AP tests and got fives on all of them (I took one and got a 4). Then he got into Cornell and graduated with the highest GPA of his

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| By John Petersik | June 26, 2009 | 81 Comments

Using Freecycle To Recycle Old House Items

Learn about our first experience with Freecycle, a community-based system of exchanging items for free. We got rid of a mattress, helped a family in need and kept trash out of a landfill. We’d call that a win-win-win.

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| By Sherry Petersik | June 26, 2009 | 48 Comments

Covering A Fireplace With Stone Veneer

Erin and Ben’s family room was completely made over from the stone fireplace to the new solid oak built-ins. Here’s how it all went down… along with some awesome before and after pictures!

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| By Sherry Petersik | June 25, 2009 | 134 Comments

Why We Bought An Organic Latex Mattress

We upgraded to an organic natural latex mattress as an anniversary gift to each other. Here’s how we trolled the web to find the best one and assembled it when it arrived in three different boxes!

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| By John Petersik | June 24, 2009 | 31 Comments

House Crashing: Shock And Eww Part II

Since Sherry gave you a sneak peek at her past design sense, it’s only fitting you get a look into John’s old college dorms. Brace yourselves people.

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| By Sherry Petersik | June 24, 2009 | 86 Comments

An Exterior Layout Of Our First Home

We’re giving you the scoop on how our home’s exterior really works. We even made a diagram- fancy!

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| By Sherry Petersik | June 23, 2009 | 60 Comments

How To Decoupage Vases & Planters

When Katie sent us home with some old botanical prints torn from a Goodwill book, we brainstormed two projects that would look right at home in our home.

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| By John Petersik | June 22, 2009 | 2,571 Comments

Fab Freebie: Goodie Bags

We already told you we love Envirosax. You told us you love ’em right back. So now they’re doing a giveaway for TYH readers. Enter here through Wednesday, June 24th, 2009.

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| By Sherry Petersik | June 22, 2009 | 109 Comments

Adding A Dining Area To Your Living Room

We added a dining area to the corner of our living room to create an open living layout that’s right off the kitchen. And in closing off our dining room we gained an extra bedroom plus more cabinetry and counter space in the kitchen. It was win-win-win!

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