Young House Love - wtf is going on with Sherry?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is just no way they are happy in that house.

No way.

Have you been watching her "rearrange furniture" for their sitting area next to the kitchen? It's basically an entry way at best with mini furniture that belongs in a college dorm.

I understand the desire to downsize, but usually when people do, they downsize to something smaller but nicer or equally as nice. They've downsized and seriously down-graded. It's weird. There has to be something else going on behind the scenes.

I wish they had “intentionally” downsized meaning they had planned how to best maximize a smaller house through clever design and space planning. This house is so chopped up and has no good flow.

They live 2 blocks from the beach and the house could have been a really lovely one with some substantial changes to improve the living. They could have built a small addition upstairs for a new master bedroom and bath, keeping the family space and deck. Shifting the staircase and using the downstairs as one big kitchen/family space with a large walkout deck. So many possibilities and all they did was keep the basic existing footprint and update the bathroom and floors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She does not drive.

Okay, you can keep insisting.

She did several updates over the years saying that she always kept her drivers license and started driving once they had kids and they had to be different places at the same time.

Dude, Sherri, is this you? They have one car and made a big deal about how "that's what works for their family," so please, tell me more about how she drives when they have to be two places at once.

Are you trying to be dense? Having to be two places at once is when things like a doctors appointment conflict with a conference call at home. Yes, they have one car, and they work from home. They’re also married. Of course they’re going to be together A LOT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is just no way they are happy in that house.

No way.

Have you been watching her "rearrange furniture" for their sitting area next to the kitchen? It's basically an entry way at best with mini furniture that belongs in a college dorm.

I understand the desire to downsize, but usually when people do, they downsize to something smaller but nicer or equally as nice. They've downsized and seriously down-graded. It's weird. There has to be something else going on behind the scenes.

I wish they had “intentionally” downsized meaning they had planned how to best maximize a smaller house through clever design and space planning. This house is so chopped up and has no good flow.

They live 2 blocks from the beach and the house could have been a really lovely one with some substantial changes to improve the living. They could have built a small addition upstairs for a new master bedroom and bath, keeping the family space and deck. Shifting the staircase and using the downstairs as one big kitchen/family space with a large walkout deck. So many possibilities and all they did was keep the basic existing footprint and update the bathroom and floors.

YES!!!! I was really hoping for something like this. Their cape Charles beach houses had good flow and so many great design elements. The Florida house is the opposite. Terrible flow and it seems like they’re trying to force big house into the small space. They’re definitely going to sell this house and move in a couple years.

[Anonymous]

John seems to be the only one writing the blog posts theses days? Has this always been the case?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:John seems to be the only one writing the blog posts theses days? Has this always been the case?

No. That’s also a little strange. In the beginning Sherry wrote most of the blog posts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do think the pandemic is ruining their fairy tale beach move. They hurried it up so that the kids could be in school with friends, but now it's all online and things suck. Tiny house, no friends, can't make friends, more online school.

I do wonder if they'll crack and move back to VA this year.

Online school in FL? Aren't schools open there?

Schools are in person in that part of Florida.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do think the pandemic is ruining their fairy tale beach move. They hurried it up so that the kids could be in school with friends, but now it's all online and things suck. Tiny house, no friends, can't make friends, more online school.

I do wonder if they'll crack and move back to VA this year.

Online school in FL? Aren't schools open there?

Schools are in person in that part of Florida.

I think They said on the podcast that their kids are doing school online.

I expect if they stay they will eventually decide to do a major renovation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is just no way they are happy in that house.

No way.

Have you been watching her "rearrange furniture" for their sitting area next to the kitchen? It's basically an entry way at best with mini furniture that belongs in a college dorm.

I understand the desire to downsize, but usually when people do, they downsize to something smaller but nicer or equally as nice. They've downsized and seriously down-graded. It's weird. There has to be something else going on behind the scenes.

I wish they had “intentionally” downsized meaning they had planned how to best maximize a smaller house through clever design and space planning. This house is so chopped up and has no good flow.

They live 2 blocks from the beach and the house could have been a really lovely one with some substantial changes to improve the living. They could have built a small addition upstairs for a new master bedroom and bath, keeping the family space and deck. Shifting the staircase and using the downstairs as one big kitchen/family space with a large walkout deck. So many possibilities and all they did was keep the basic existing footprint and update the bathroom and floors.

You must be forgetting about the innovative olive oil/salt jar drawer. Check out John describes it like having your cooking oil on its side in a dedicated drawer is a happy accident. lol


https://www.younghouselove.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Florida-Kitchen-Organization-Oil-Drawer-1024x885.jpg " border="0" class="embeddedImage" />

So here we are: our olive oil drawer. Yes, it literally contains a single bottle of EVOO and a jar of salt. All of our spatulas and cooking utensils are on the counter, so this drawer didn’t really fit much else (even our rolls of foil and plastic wrap didn’t fit), but it’s actually nice to have our cooking oil near the stove and in a cool dark place. By some small miracle Sherry even had a plastic bin that fit the olive oil bottle and the drawer perfectly so errant drips don’t ruin the drawer.

[Anonymous]

I'm getting the sense Sherry has an actual job. This is very surprising since the blog has been her primary job since before her kids were born. It must not have been supporting them sufficiently any more, or she just got bored with the blog. Who knows.

[Anonymous]

The drawer picture didnt come through. It's in the most recent blog post on their site. I'll give it one more shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is just no way they are happy in that house.

No way.

Have you been watching her "rearrange furniture" for their sitting area next to the kitchen? It's basically an entry way at best with mini furniture that belongs in a college dorm.

I understand the desire to downsize, but usually when people do, they downsize to something smaller but nicer or equally as nice. They've downsized and seriously down-graded. It's weird. There has to be something else going on behind the scenes.

I wish they had “intentionally” downsized meaning they had planned how to best maximize a smaller house through clever design and space planning. This house is so chopped up and has no good flow.

They live 2 blocks from the beach and the house could have been a really lovely one with some substantial changes to improve the living. They could have built a small addition upstairs for a new master bedroom and bath, keeping the family space and deck. Shifting the staircase and using the downstairs as one big kitchen/family space with a large walkout deck. So many possibilities and all they did was keep the basic existing footprint and update the bathroom and floors.

You must be forgetting about the innovative olive oil/salt jar drawer. Check out John describes it like having your cooking oil on its side in a dedicated drawer is a happy accident. lol


https://www.younghouselove.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Florida-Kitchen-Organization-Oil-Drawer-1024x885.jpg " border="0" class="embeddedImage" />

So here we are: our olive oil drawer. Yes, it literally contains a single bottle of EVOO and a jar of salt. All of our spatulas and cooking utensils are on the counter, so this drawer didn’t really fit much else (even our rolls of foil and plastic wrap didn’t fit), but it’s actually nice to have our cooking oil near the stove and in a cool dark place. By some small miracle Sherry even had a plastic bin that fit the olive oil bottle and the drawer perfectly so errant drips don’t ruin the drawer.

Haha! I bet they are house shopping right now! 50/50 that they buy another house in Florida or go back to Richmond... But 100% odds they move within 24 months.

The way they talk about that house reeks of an exercise in positive thinking: Like when you hate your job, but you don’t want to be negative so when it comes up in conversation, you gush about something trivial that you like: “Guys, I just got a new office chair and boy is it awesome! It spins! And it’s such a nice shade of black! I love my chair soooooo much.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The drawer picture didnt come through. It's in the most recent blog post on their site. I'll give it one more shot.

[Anonymous]

I don't see on their blog where they talk about the florida house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The drawer picture didnt come through. It's in the most recent blog post on their site. I'll give it one more shot.

OMG! They are so weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't see on their blog where they talk about the florida house

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