Wherein we ask our favorite design bloggers, curators and forecasters what inspires them.  

We’ve already featured a splash (technically, a color block) of inspiration from this week’s featured blogger, Sherry Petersik of Young House Love. We’re over Jupiter to have them with us, semi-live and almost in person, for this installment of our 5 Questions Series.

It all started when Sherry and her husband John left Manhattan to take on a massive DIY project in Richmond, Virginia: their first house. They’re now on to their second home, which is their baby, as they say, and sanctuary for their human baby and dog adorably named Hamburger. It’s also become their livelihood. The stay at home couple spend their days child-rearing, DIY-ing, blogging and writing books. Young House Love? Sounds more like Heaven.

They’ve been featured on The Nate Burkus Show, the cover of Nest, HGTV, the New York Times and now at EcoSalon answering all five of our intrepid questions.

What’s on your coffee table?

Right now we don’t have a coffee table- just a big tufted storage ottoman. When people are coming over it might have a stack of hardcover books or some appetizers on it, but right this second there’s a truck, a baby doll, and a TV remote on it. Haha. Toddlers…gotta love them.

What object are you currently lusting after and what would you do with it?

(Small print: this is our suggestion from this month’s Shelter sponsor VivaTerra.) 

Lately I’ve been lusting after media cabinets of all things. Our living room is well overdue for a larger and more balanced looking TV cabinet or built-in, so I’m having fun checking out options on pinterest, google, and at thrift stores.

What’s your favorite object and how did you find it?

Hmm, that’s a toughie. We’re oddly attached to our recycled cardboard rhino head that hands on the wall of our living room (it’s from Cardboard Safari) and we love the 13′ double desk that we built using $1 secondhand cabinets from the Habitat For Humanity ReStore.

What’s the story behind your favorite photograph, and how did you choose to frame it?

A friend took a photo of our daughter wearing a red skirt and sitting on an old wooden box in the middle of the woods. It’s such an amazing photo that we had to frame it right where we’d see it every day (next to the door we go in and out of in our laundry room). We love the woven look of the frame with the zen-like colorful photo of Clara!

What is the most awkward, wayward object in your home?

Hmm, right now we have a giant dishwasher box in the middle of our living room that we cut to look like a house (we added a door and some windows). It’s definitely not a “cohesive” look, but it keeps the toddler happy- so for now it stays!

The 5 Questions Series is an ongoing project wherein we peek inside the workspaces and living spaces of our favorite design bloggers, curators and trendsetters.

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