Young House Love - wtf is going on with Sherry?

[Anonymous]

I'm new to YHL, but all the talk about the Florida home has me curious. Is there any way to see a layout overview without watching all of her videos?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I think 1400-1600 square feet particularly in an indoor/outdoor state like FL is perfect for a family of four. I live in Brooklyn and there are upscale families of four in my building with less square footage. However it's a pre-war building so the layout works - enter into the shared living space plus kitchen (sometimes a dining room too) then the bedroom and bathroom (s) are off down a hall. Generally lots of light. None of my neighbors in those spaces seem to feel cramped. My Aunt and Uncle raised two kids in about 700 square feet and it worked - the layout was great.

This house though. The layout is dire, they have set it up so there's no flow and as usual their decor choices are off-scale and the aesthetic is a miss. I think they will stay in FL - they have always skewed beach-esque and this move was just admitting it. BUT the choice was a miss. Should have just razed the thing, gotten an architect and started over.

Agreed 100%, I grew up living in tiny apartments and condos as a kid, and we were a family of 5 making it work. The homes and apartments were small but at least had some kind of flow and we didn't try to fill the space with out of scale furniture. The upsidedown home (living space upstairs and bedrooms downstairs) is a classic old school beach home layout on the Jersey shore, with the point being that you can get beach views everyone can enjoy from the top floor. The YHL beach house has no beach views so the layout doesn't make sense even in the "classic beach house" realm. There isn't even a stair off the upper deck that would allow some kind of flow with their yard or pool. At this point, their outside deck makes zero sense with the pool being where it is ... so you go make your lunch in the kitchen downstairs, go up to the second floor deck to enjoy eating outside, then go back down to go back to the pool? What? Why would you ever even use that deck??

[Anonymous]

Oh didn't you hear they have magical trees that you can enjoy from the deck

[Anonymous]

At least she's not snooty Julia from Chris loves Julia who has a special garbage can just for one of her sponsored damn vacuums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm new to YHL, but all the talk about the Florida home has me curious. Is there any way to see a layout overview without watching all of her videos?

They claim it's for privacy/safety/security that they don't share the latest layout, but it's pretty easy to figure out from the pictures. You enter into a small entry/kitchen, on the left is the hallway that takes you out to the pool, off that same hallway are 2 kids bedrooms and the only bathroom of the house, to the right of the kitchen you enter their bedroom, which has a fireplace and french doors to outside where they have a tree swing and firepit. The stairs to go up are adjacent to the kitchen, up there is just a large room with living room furniture and desks, a single door to the deck, and then the large deck that overlooks their yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh didn't you hear they have magical trees that you can enjoy from the deck

I love that, yes I forgot about the magical trees!! I also love that they cut out so many trees from their Richmond property because it was just too much shade and annoying to rake and just way too many GD trees lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Followed them since before they bought the Richmond House and then hit some kind of wall - their impoverished idea of decor kind of crashed into a wave of criticism and they took a break. Came back w/ the Florida move which I thought was smart. That Richmond house was cursed forever just with the bad juju of the time Sherry put bronze rustoleum over a child's plastic basketball hoop.

I think 1400-1600 square feet particularly in an indoor/outdoor state like FL is perfect for a family of four. I live in Brooklyn and there are upscale families of four in my building with less square footage. However it's a pre-war building so the layout works - enter into the shared living space plus kitchen (sometimes a dining room too) then the bedroom and bathroom (s) are off down a hall. Generally lots of light. None of my neighbors in those spaces seem to feel cramped. My Aunt and Uncle raised two kids in about 700 square feet and it worked - the layout was great.

This house though. The layout is dire, they have set it up so there's no flow and as usual their decor choices are off-scale and the aesthetic is a miss. I think they will stay in FL - they have always skewed beach-esque and this move was just admitting it. BUT the choice was a miss. Should have just razed the thing, gotten an architect and started over.

Ok the bold made me snort water outta my nose. I missed that post! Gotta find it...

[Anonymous]

Ok I found it:
https://www.younghouselove.com/hoop-there-it-is/

Thankfully she does recognize in this post that she is a LUNATIC for spray painting this. If kids toys bothered me this much I think I just would have...not had kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok I found it:
https://www.younghouselove.com/hoop-there-it-is/

Thankfully she does recognize in this post that she is a LUNATIC for spray painting this. If kids toys bothered me this much I think I just would have...not had kids?

lolololol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Followed them since before they bought the Richmond House and then hit some kind of wall - their impoverished idea of decor kind of crashed into a wave of criticism and they took a break. Came back w/ the Florida move which I thought was smart. That Richmond house was cursed forever just with the bad juju of the time Sherry put bronze rustoleum over a child's plastic basketball hoop.

I think 1400-1600 square feet particularly in an indoor/outdoor state like FL is perfect for a family of four. I live in Brooklyn and there are upscale families of four in my building with less square footage. However it's a pre-war building so the layout works - enter into the shared living space plus kitchen (sometimes a dining room too) then the bedroom and bathroom (s) are off down a hall. Generally lots of light. None of my neighbors in those spaces seem to feel cramped. My Aunt and Uncle raised two kids in about 700 square feet and it worked - the layout was great.

This house though. The layout is dire, they have set it up so there's no flow and as usual their decor choices are off-scale and the aesthetic is a miss. I think they will stay in FL - they have always skewed beach-esque and this move was just admitting it. BUT the choice was a miss. Should have just razed the thing, gotten an architect and started over.

Ok the bold made me snort water outta my nose. I missed that post! Gotta find it...

Game over, no further commentary necessary. It's all been said in that one sentence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Followed them since before they bought the Richmond House and then hit some kind of wall - their impoverished idea of decor kind of crashed into a wave of criticism and they took a break. Came back w/ the Florida move which I thought was smart. That Richmond house was cursed forever just with the bad juju of the time Sherry put bronze rustoleum over a child's plastic basketball hoop.

I think 1400-1600 square feet particularly in an indoor/outdoor state like FL is perfect for a family of four. I live in Brooklyn and there are upscale families of four in my building with less square footage. However it's a pre-war building so the layout works - enter into the shared living space plus kitchen (sometimes a dining room too) then the bedroom and bathroom (s) are off down a hall. Generally lots of light. None of my neighbors in those spaces seem to feel cramped. My Aunt and Uncle raised two kids in about 700 square feet and it worked - the layout was great.

This house though. The layout is dire, they have set it up so there's no flow and as usual their decor choices are off-scale and the aesthetic is a miss. I think they will stay in FL - they have always skewed beach-esque and this move was just admitting it. BUT the choice was a miss. Should have just razed the thing, gotten an architect and started over.

Ok the bold made me snort water outta my nose. I missed that post! Gotta find it...

Game over, no further commentary necessary. It's all been said in that one sentence.

I'm a NP on this thread, but a longtime YHL and adi GOMI follower (back in that time) and I SO clearly remember this being one of my first eyeroll / disenchanting YHL moments. LOL at it now and the many mistakes I made based on their guidance (but also some good choices and a general interest in design!)

[Anonymous]

What is going on with Sherry’s latest hairstyle??? What is that ball on top of her head with the short hair? I wish someone would tell her it looks ridiculous. I like them, but geesh I can’t stand her hair right now!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is going on with Sherry’s latest hairstyle??? What is that ball on top of her head with the short hair? I wish someone would tell her it looks ridiculous. I like them, but geesh I can’t stand her hair right now!

I saw that, it's basically like she has a man bun. She's shown her hair down, it's just a normal, cute bob. Why does she need a man bun, why can't she just do a normal half ponytail?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok I found it:
https://www.younghouselove.com/hoop-there-it-is/

Thankfully she does recognize in this post that she is a LUNATIC for spray painting this. If kids toys bothered me this much I think I just would have...not had kids?

That was after the painted striped duck, right? I was an avid daily follower and they were great early on, kept following b/c just got used to logging in every day. When they moved into the "big house" I lost all interest...so much stuff, so little character.

I'm actually back to following b/c I like their life choices: Selling all the big, downsizing, going small. Being from the Richmond VA area I can say I'm in love with their new area, so it's fun to see. Walk to the beach? Yes. Small house, Yes! Don't like all their choices (no more IDEA cabinets please) but otherwise it's so much better than 3 houses running back and forth to Cape Charles. Seems more normal.

As an empty nester I would love the size/location of that house. With 2 kids not sure, but I look at the house sizes that people used to raise 4 kids in: it's totally doable.

[Anonymous]

PP here: Forgot to say the one thing I was going to say! Haven't seen her current hair, but my bob length covid-grown out hair has been up in a man bun recently at the beach (even called it my man bun). It just is until it's longer.
And I will say I've commented on both YHL and CLJ instagrams before: Nice responses from YHL, not nice from CLJ.