Popular blog Young House Love tabled indefinitely

But the couple behind the site say they aren’t putting it out to pasture for good.

October 9, 2014; 12:05 PM • by Ross Catrow

Update #1 — October 9, 2014; 12:02 PM

Sherry and John Petersik, the couple who’ve run Young House Love for the past seven years, announced today they’ll no longer update the blog regularly as “it’s time for our next adventure.” Last month, the couple put the blog on temporary hiatus.

From their post today:

This blog has been a staple in our lives for 80+ months, tagging along for all but three months of our marriage and our entire existence as parents. So we thought it would be nearly impossible to click off that urge to over-share this past month (we expected our blogging spark to come back with a vengeance). But maybe it’s us getting older, the kids getting bigger, or a general shift in life priorities – but it actually felt just right. So this break has given us the clarity (and the guts, I guess) to move on… and hopefully move the needle on that life balance we’ve been talking about for so long.

We won’t go as far as to declare this the end of Young House Love or our blogging days. Who knows, maybe somewhere down the line (when the kids are both in school?) we’ll get that burning in our bellies again – perhaps here or in a completely different capacity. We don’t know what the future holds, but we know that the most amazing things have happened to us when we’ve stretched waaay out of our comfort zone – as much as that sounds like advice you’d find on an inspirational kitten poster.

We plan to keep the blog archives available for as long as we can, and will be freezing comments soon, but we won’t be completely dropping off the planet. Some completed product designs with Liberty Hardware and Shades of Light may pop up, and our second book will come out next October. Those folks have all been amazingly supportive of our decision, for which we’re incredibly thankful.

Speaking of which – “Thank you” doesn’t come close to expressing how grateful we are for getting to share our weird little world with you guys for so long. We have nothing but love and gratitude for this whole experience – and for you. (This is probably where we should fade up on that Dirty Dancing song)

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Original — September 10, 2014

John and Sherry Petersik, Richmonders and owners of the super-popular blog Young House Love, announced that they’ve decided to put the project on temporary hiatus:

It’s endlessly frustrating to do a job that you love poorly, especially when it’s a blog baby that you’ve birthed yourself and nurtured for seven years. And especially when it’s such an amazing job that we once felt so inspired and joyful to wake up and do each day. What’s wrong with us? We know this is a dream job. We acknowledge it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. We know most people who have built something like this would be more inspired than ever. It’s not that we lost the gratitude, I think it’s that we feel like we’ve fallen out of our groove. We feel like we’re letting you guys down repeatedly. It got to the point that every time we pressed “publish” we braced ourselves.

So in an attempt to stop stumbling around and feeling like we just can’t get it back, we’re taking a break.

Young House Love has worked with some impressive national brands over the years including Oprah, Benjamin Moore, and Target. They’re probably one of the most successful voices to come out of the Great Richmond Blog Renaissance back in the mid-2000s.

A bummer for sure, but I’m excited to see what’s next for the two of them and wish them the best of luck!