1. Who are you? Male, 27 years old, married, 2 kids (age 2&4) (yeah, another guy John .. for your moral support .. he he)

2. How often do you read Young House Love? Daily – mostly a few times a day, looking for new posts!

3. How do you prefer to view Young House Love?
On younghouselove.com

4. What are your favorite types of posts & why? Design Dilemmas and then the before & after pics. You guys are awesome with the mood boards, so I like to see what you’re advising and maybe get a few ideas!

5. What are your other must-read blogs? This is the only one I read.

6. What advice do you have for us to make Young House Love even better in year #2? Oh, this site is awesome the way it is, but if I have to say something… maybe more before and after pics?

7. And, for fun, what’s one change you would make to your house (assuming time and money were no object)? A new kitchen (it’s in the plans .. hopefully next year)

1. I’m a 26 year old gal from Calgary, Alberta, Canada! Married, two dogs, and two cats. (Yes..that is a handful!)

2. Lets just say I read your blog way more often then any full time employed person should….

3. http://www.younghouselove.com is on my favorite list!

4. I’m a big fan of your house tours, reader’s before and afters, and the shop profiles. I covet you kitchen. No seriously. If ONLY I had been able to convince my husband to go with white..if ONLY I had didn’t have such big dogs who love mud…

5. I’m going to right ahead and plug my own..still new…still working out the kinks…
http://finethingsandbigdreams.blogspot.com

Other favorites:
http://parismarket.blogspot.com/
http://desiretoinspire.blogspot.com/
http://inspirationforeverydayliving.blogspot.com/

6. It kills me when I love love love something (like everything from West Elm) but then they won’t ship to Canada. Use your power of pursuasion and see what you can do!

7. OH my gosh..we’re just completing our 10 month reno (yes…we prove the age old rule..don’t hire friends..) of our main floor (kitchen, dining room, living room, flooring, lighting..bathroom..everything) and our wallet is empty…but should we win the lotto (or I can actually commit to saving) we’re going to reno our ensuite..I have visions of marble and shower towers…

1. Who are you? Female, 24, Melbourne, Australia, Married and no kids.
2. How often do you read Young House Love? Almost Daily.
3. How do you prefer to view Young House Love? On younghouselove.com
4. What are your favorite types of posts & why? Before & after pictures and Major home improvement undertakings
5. What are your other must-read blogs? I read a lot of home style blogs and fashion blogs. My favourite home style blogs are yours, Making it Lovely, Haus Maus and The Selby.
6. What advice do you have for us to make Young House Love even better in year #2? More before and afters I guess, but that gets hard as time goes by and things settle down I suppose.
7. And, for fun, what’s one change you would make to your house (assuming time and money were no object)? I would attach a balcony to our apartment somehow (so yeah this is really impossible)and add a bath to our bathroom. We are renters currently so we can’t actually paint or put wallpaper on the walls so that would be nice to be able to do too.
8. Anything else you want us to know, or just gotta share with the world? I’m sorry this is so late.

1. I am a 28-year-old working-professional-who-just-wants-to-decorate! I am pushing 2 1/2 years of marital bliss with no kids (yet!), living in expensive and traffic-filled Northern Virginia (Vienna, to be exact).
2. I actually just found Young House Love TODAY! But I’m hooked and will add it to my daily blogroll!
3. I definitely prefer reading straight from the source.
4. I love….before and afters (of all kinds), DIY projects (easy or hard), home tours, fun deals and steals, and “I-tried-this-and-hated-it-but-then-tried-this-and-it-was-perfection” posts.
5. I daily read design*sponge, coco+kelley, Creature Comforts, decor8, and a handful of other blogs. I just recently (finally!) started my own blog: http://www.inthetweeds.com (do not judge!).
6. Being a new reader, that’s a toughie…other than keep up the good work! I think how-to videos could be fun!
7. I would…flip flop our master bathroom and spare bathroom so that our master bathroom was bigger than a shoebox (and not covered in ’60s blue tile!).
8. Your blog is exactly how I envision my ever-evolving blog to be! I love! I’m excited to join you as a fan in your second year of blogdom!

change the format so i don’t have to click on the post, then read it, then hit “back” then click the next one. i am reading from the oldest to the newest and it takes forever. i would love it if i could just keep hitting newer post and it go all the way without having to open every month and slowly work my way in and out of them.

1. Who are you? Female, 28, Chicago, Married 2 years with 3 big dogs
2. How often do you read? Just discovered it last week, but have been spending my free time (and then some) at work reading the archives!
3. How do you prefer to view us? On younghouselove.com
4. What are your favorite types of posts & why? Love seeing the befores and afters, the deals you discover, love it all really!
5. What are your other must-read blogs? n/a
6. What advice do you have for us to make Young House Love even better in year #2? I agree with Jamo on this one – I’m reading through your archives, and it’s a pita to keep going back and forth…
7. And, for fun, what’s one change you would make to your house (assuming time and money were no object)? I would add a second bathroom!
8. Anything else you want us to know, or just gotta share with the world? Great job! Keep doing what you’re doing…

1. Nicole, Female, 28, new homeowner in Ewing NJ, Married, no kids yet.
2. I subscribe to it, so probably a few times a week when I have free time.
3. Google Reader, but every now and then I go to the site
4. Easy DIY & Before & After pics
5. http://simplychic.blogspot.com/
http://capecodmakeover.blogspot.com/
http://brynalexandra.blogspot.com/
http://desiretoinspire.blogspot.com/
6. I guess more Before & After pics
7. Update the kitchen! Its original Kitchenmaid 60s teal.
8. Love the blog :)

I’ve been putzing around this afternoon on the computer, and a good bit of the time has been here at YHL :) I found this post in the archives, and thought I’d add my info!

1) Jacci, 33, female, in Ohio, married for 9 years to Sam (we met in junior high, but didn’t date ’til college). We have four children. Yes, nine years and 4 children :) Our oldest child just turned 8.

2 & 3) I read your blog about 5x a week, sometimes many posts in a sitting (archives). I go straight to your homepage – no readers. Why wouldn’t I want to see *all* of your pretty homepage?? :)

4) My favorite posts are the before & afters of your own home. Why? Because we just moved in to a neglected 1983 design mess and it helps me to know that it *can* become what I *think* it can become. Your den before?? That’s my family room right now!! (except mine also has cat-pee carpet from the POs – I’ve mentioned that one before, ugh.)

5) I like a number of the blogs listed in your blogroll – Making it Lovely, Bossy Color Blog, as well as several that I click on from time to time on houseblogs.net :) That’s how I found your blog, btw.

6) More of the same. And I already mentioned (and you already delivered!) that I’d like to see a smaller scale advice option besides the entire mood board makeover. Still pinching pennies, guys – but we closed on the sale of our old house today!!! Yay!!

7) HA. No, really… HA. We have an entire house to remodel! This spring and summer, we hope to completely redo our family room (bye, bye, cat pee!), paint the cabinets and walls in the kitchen, and change the exterior colors. I really, really hope to have some $$$ left over for decor. We’ll see :)

8) I love to cook and I’m fairly good at it :) Now, don’t think this is weird, but I was actually thinking about you guys last night as I sauteed garlic in my dark, 1980s kitchen. I hope you were cooking in your bright, updated, beachy kitchen!!! ;) I was standing there stirring in freshly grated parmesan and wondering, “Would Sherry trade a design advice call for a cooking advice call?” *grin* Think about it… I’d be right on the line if the olive oil started to smoke ;)

Keep it up, guys!!! Your blog has been a beacon of freshly painted, home-making light during these winter months with two mortgages and pumpkin pie brown walls :) Now, the warm weather’s coming, the house has SOLD, I’ve chosen paint colors, and I’m ready to make this place *home* :)

Thanks for all the ideas and inspiration!!!

Jacci

Emily, female, 30, Sydney Australia, single, no kids
Daily read…to avoid work
Read via younghouselove.com
I have to choose??? love it all.
http://the-panopticon.blogspot.com/
http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/
http://finethingsandbigdreams.blogspot.com/
Advice – suggest that trolling through the archives could be easier eg how about listing all entries for the one month on one page? instead of 5 pages or so to a month.
I’d change the carpet and maybe the bathroom – I’ve already mentally changed the paint (ok so I haven’t got the keys to my new purchase yet but paint colour is chosen!)
I found you via Linsay at fine things and big dreams about a week or 2 ago and I love your site. I’ve been on the house tour, virtually attended your wedding, worked through the How-to projects and then I discovered the archives!!! I’ve been kinda obsessed. I’ve just purchased my own place and I get the keys in two and a half weeks. Will continue to work my way through for lots of inspiration. Keep it up guys. Great job!

1. Lynn, Girl, 37, married 17 years this May to Mikel, 2 great kids( Sam and Alex) and my very own Boston Terrier named Fenway (Can You guess where I’m from?) I live in Mechanicsville moved here July 2006.
2. I read every day! I am spending some free time reading all the archives. Loving it!!
3. On younghouselove.com
4. Easy DIY ideas, they get me off my butt and thinking outside the box. Before & after pictures, give me much needed inspiration to dream, if not tackle those projects that are building up all around me.
5. This is the first blog I have ever read, and I love it!
6. Since I know nothing about blogging I can’t really offer any advice to improve what you are doing. I think This web site is great
7. I would love to have wood floors throughout my house, right now I have 6 different floor types in my house and it drives me crazy!
8. I have been remodeling/redecorating my master bath for almost a year now and I am almost done! I would love to send you the before and after pics, when I am finally finished. You both are agreta inspiration, Keep it up!!

I realize that this is an old post, and no one has commented on it in awhile, but I figured I would throw my info in there! :)

1. My name is Laura, I’m obviously female. I am 23 years old living in the Northern Virginia area (currently Alexandria, soon to be somewhere around Fairfax). I have a great boyfriend of a year who tolerates me need for interior design. And no, no kids — not anytime soon!

2. I waste so much time at work reading blogs, including yours. :) I check up every day on it to see if there are updates and one of the things I love about you guys is that you are constantly updating!

3. I use a Firefox add-on called Sage. I just recently started using it, but it allows me to check on new posts from a lot of different blogs and then go to the site to read them

4. I love all your posts! The before and afters, the design dilemmas — all of them!

5. I work on my own blog, http://www.grafxnerd.net, but also follow Making it Lovely, Apartment Therapy, Bacon is My Enemy, Dooce, and Pancakes and French Fries.

6. Seeing as I am coming into this in year 3, I believe, you guys seem to have your stuff down! :)

7. Well if time and money were no object, I would buy a house! I wouldn’t want a complete fixer-upper, but definitely something with character that I could make my own!

Keep up the great work guys!

Who are you? Female, 27 years old, Jersey Shore, Extremely happily married, one furboy Caesar the boxer

How often do you read Young House Love? Just stumbled upon it and am hooked! I’ve visited it daily since my discovery!

How do you prefer to view Young House Love? Through the blog itself.

What are your favorite types of posts & why? Everything! It really gets my creative juices flowing. Love it!

What are your other must-read blogs? None.

What advice do you have for us to make Young House Love even better in year #2? Just keep up the good work!

And, for fun, what’s one change you would make to your house (assuming time and money were no object)? Honestly, I’d completely level it and rebuild. Our house is ancient, built in the late 1800’s. It needs more than just some TLC, but we’re working on it.

Anything else you want us to know, or just gotta share with the world? Just married two years & finally thinking of starting a family, as well as remodeling certain rooms.

I know this is an old post, but I’ve entered myself in several of your giveaway contests so I thought I would introduce myself.

1 – female – 24 – Raleigh, NC – Married – no kids (yet), 2 cats.

2- I check all my blogs daily (including YHL) and I’m slowly making my way through your archives, starting at day 1. Yeah, that might make me crazy, but I’m a little OCD (like a certain Youngster I read about :D ) and I like to know how things got started.

3- I read all my blogs in Google Reader, but usually click over to the host site if the post is long or has lots of pics.

4- I love almost all your content! DIY, green-ing tips, reader before and afters. I tend to skim through the Design Dilemma Segment because a) it doesn’t apply to me and b) it’s a bit wordy and I have to keep scrolling back up to the mood board to know what you’re talking about. It would be cool to ‘inject’ the image into the paragraph that mentions it, but that would be alot of work!
What are your favorite types of posts & why? (

5- Wow… that’s a tough one. I have approx 50 blogs in my reader but some of my favorites are Apartment Therapy and Deisgn*Sponge (interiors), {frolic!} and 100 Layer Cake (weddings), and Go Fug Yourself, Passive Agressive Notes, and Cake Wrecks (funny stuff). I also write a blog, posting 2-4 times a week (see my URL)

6- Keep it coming!

7- We are thinking about making the leap into homeownership, but I can’t wait until we can truly personalize our space. White apartments are so dull!

1.Who are you? Male/Female? Age? Location? Marital status? Any kids? – Female, 53, Eastern KS, Widow, one adult son/DiL/newborn grandson – and a 35 lb Border Collie mix named Molly

2.How often do you read Young House Love? (Daily? Once a week? Whenever you have free time at work?) – a couple of times a week

3.How do you prefer to view Young House Love? (On younghouselove.com? Through an RSS reader like Google or Bloglines?) – on your website

4.What are your favorite types of posts & why? (Easy DIY ideas? Before & after pictures? Design Dilemmas? Major home improvement undertakings?) – I’m loving the Design advice you are giving others and the DIY pics

5.What are your other must-read blogs? (If you have one of your own, feel free to plug it right here!) – gosh, a lot of knitting and needlwork blogs (Yarn Harlot, etc), you all are my FIRST DIY/house blog

6.What advice do you have for us to make Young House Love even better in year #2? I wish there were more floor plans of your advice posts. Space planning and furniture arrangement is what I need the most help with.

7.And, for fun, what’s one change you would make to your house (assuming time and money were no object)? A formal library/home office. I have a TON of books, an overflowing bookshelf in every room – no room to accessorize like you show – just books, books and MORE books.

8.Anything else you want us to know, or just gotta share with the world? – while I love your light and breezy style, do you have any advice for those of us that are drawn to a deeper, darker color pallete? Or sites you like that tend that way? I own a Craftsman Cottage and white painted woodwork (except in the bathroom and kitchen and stairwell) just isn’t EVER going to happen here – I feel blessed that in 80+ years none of the former owners took a paint brush to any of that glorious oak LOL.

I realize that I’m tardy to the party however, I just discovered you guy last month. Let me introduce myself.

Who are you? Male/Female? Age? Location? Marital status? Any kids? Of course, I’m Sonja. I’m a divorced mother of a sublime 15 year old daughter residing in Lexington, KY!
How often do you read Young House Love? Twice a day, but don’t tell my boss.
How do you prefer to view Young House Love? I go straight to the website.
What are your favorite types of posts & why? I love the renovation process blogs. I always fascinated to find out how people are able to muster the courage to see a renovation thru to completion.
What are your other must-read blogs? Get It Girl(found here)
What advice do you have for us to make Young House Love even better in year #2? I’m drawing a blank.
And, for fun, what’s one change you would make to your house (assuming time and money were no object)? I would replace the taupe cavelike bath/shower insert with something more appealing. Detox the entire house…working on the plastic currently.

Anything else you want us to know, or just gotta share with the world? I found your site thru a Google search of small backyard BBQ wedding receptions. I’d like to consider myself a planner but I’m closer to a dreamer. I recently attended a wedding that was pretty costly to the couple’s family. During the 10 hour drive back to KY, my daughter discussed ways to share the moment without breaking the bank. I declared that I would rather have the private ceremony and host a casual BBQ reception in the backyard. My daughter thought it was cheesy and cheap , but she is 15 so what does she know. She said that it was impossible to host a classy and inexpensive souire in the backyard. I took the challenge, found your site and let’s just say you could consider me inspired!

1. Who are you? Female, 29. Expecting first child, 4 dogs (3 of which are rescued pit bulls).

2. How often do you read Young House Love? Daily at work.

3. What are your favorite types of posts & why? Easy DIY, and the creativity you use to do cheap and easy things on your house. Like using paint to make things match.

4. What advice do you have for us to make YHL even better in year #3? I get bored sometimes with the same old pottery barn looking before and afters. If I have to see one more blue/brown living room or bedroom, I may yawn. Its the kitchen redos that are amazing, the furniture redos that I love.

5. Is there a topic or other area of our lives you’d like us to talk about more frequently?

Nope, I like that you give us a little personality, but I am sure you want some privacy in your life, and I respect that.

6. Anything else you want us to know, or just gotta share with the world? http://dogspotkc.blogspot.com

1. Who are you? Female? Age 55 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Marital status: Married Any kids: No
2. How often do you read Young House Love: Whenever you have free time at work
3. How do you prefer to view Young House Love? On younghouselove.com
4. What are your favorite types of posts & why? (Easy DIY ideas? Before & after pictures? Design Dilemmas? Major home improvement undertakings?) ALL OF THEM
5. What are your other must-read blogs? None

6. What advice do you have for us to make Young House Love even better in year #2? Just keep on doing the things you do so well.

7. And, for fun, what’s one change you would make to your house (assuming time and money were no object)? Have someone come in and re-paint the whole house and build in new wardrobes and a new fitted bathroom…….one can dream!
8. Anything else you want us to know, or just gotta share with the world?

1. Micheal and I are 36 and 27 respectively, we just got married, purchased our first home, and moved within a period of 21 days! We have three adorable (and furry) children, Kali, Indi and Moshe (the cats).

2. I’m a new fan of YHL and since it’s on my google reader I check it out every day!

3. Google Reader then come to the post to comment.How do you prefer to view Young House Love?

4. I’m still getting a feel for the site but looking for frugal inspiration and knowing that it actually can be done!

5. Foreclosure to Fabulous! http://foreclosure2fabulous.blogspot.com PLUG!! We are blogging about the herculean task of living in and renovating a foreclosed home. It is dedicated to helping navigate the foreclosure process from shopping, to purchasing, to what the heck to do with the house once the bank signs it over to you!

6. Keep doin’ what you’re doin’ :)

7. New cabinets in my kitchen!! Right now the cabinets are old and the layout does NOT accommodate all of my lovely new appliances – I would LOVE a total kitchen redo. :)

8. My fantasy football team rocked it out tonight!

1. Who are you? Female . 26 . Philadelphia, PA . Divorced/Dating. 4 almost 5 (November) daughter
2. How often do you read Young House Love? I just started yesterday but I LOVE this site.
3. How do you prefer to view Young House Love? On younghouselove.com
4. What are your favorite types of posts & why? I honestly like everything. The DIY are great since I close on my house on 10/15 and I need ideas how to decorate. I also like the before/after pictures. I am on a budget so I watch HGTV a lot and I am on the internet looking for things that will look great without out the mutch added cost.
5. What are your other must-read blogs? Don’t have any
6. What advice do you have for us to make Young House Love even better in year #2? Just keep doing what your doing…it seems to be working
7. And, for fun, what’s one change you would make to your house (assuming time and money were no object)? My current obesession is redoing the one bathroom the house has…I really would lik a clawfoot tub/shower and make it spa like. I have a lot of ideas about the new bathroom. Probably would also finish the basement with at least a half bath.
8. Anything else you want us to know, or just gotta share with the world? I actually saw you two on Rate My Space episode a couple of months ago. It’s funny that I would randomly find your site. I love your house. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Your house gives me a lot of inspiration and hope.

1. Female, thirty-something, Northern Ireland
2. About once a week
3. younghouselove.com
4. DIY
5. http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
http://www.designspongeonline.com/
http://www.sfgirlbybay.com/
http://thenextstageblog.wordpress.com/ (mine)
6. Can’t think of anything at the moment. You look like you’re having a lot of fun in decorating, a good thing!
7. I’d rip out two retaining walls on the main floor, have steel beams installed, turn one side of the house into a kitchen/dining room, and the other into a large living room. Right now it’s a teeny kitchen and living room on one side, an office and formal sitting room on the other. Current set-up is NOT working!
8. Hmmm. No.

1. Female, 22, York County, VA (we’re practically neighbors), living with my boyfriend in our very first house (a cute little 56 year old cape cod).
2. Daily – I just recently came upon the website and have a lot of catching up to do!
3. younghouselove.com
4. I love, love, love the posts about easy DYI projects and simple (cheap!) solutions to seemingly unfixable problems (closet clutter, refinishing furniture, etc.)
5. I read a few other blogs, but none as religiously as this one. I do have a blog of my own (http://stillrockandrolltome.blogspot.com) where I hope to discuss my own home improvements – amidst posts about adjusting to my new life here in VA.
6. I agree with an earlier comment: space planning. For the most part I find myself good with color, and I can pick furniture and art that match – but I have no idea what the most appealing way to present them all is. Or how to fully maximize the space of a tiny house.
7. New kitchen cabinets, hardwood floors, and an addition that would include a family room and dining room. Our 14×12 living room can only do some much for us…
8. Thank you so much for doing what you do on this blog. When I first found it I thought I would be disappointed – your before and afters looked so amazing, I just knew there was no way I would be able to attempt anything that you had done – but then, as I read, I found out that you shopped at places like Target, and did a lot of work yourselves. It gives me hope as a novice DYIer and new house owner.