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I'm John.

And I'm Sherry.

We like home stuff.

We like talking.

And we like the occasional game show sound effect.

So welcome to Young House Love has a podcast where we have deep and not so deep conversations about DIY, design, and life at home.

Today we're sharing what went down before last week's big exterior painting extravaganza.

Plus the story of how our Instagram account almost sort of got hacked and a charming chat with one of our youngest listeners.

By the time you hear this episode, it is very likely that our entire brick house is painted a glorious shade of white.

But at the time of recording this, the house has not even a little bit white yet, except for our test swatches,

because they're doing prep and setting up and getting ready to start.

But we have no experience to share about the house being painted white yet.

Yes, I feel like people might have tuned in this Monday expecting to hear the whole backstory on it.

So we just wanted to say it front.

There's no backstory in behind the scenes of how the painting went down because it hasn't really gone down yet.

Oh, it's about to go down.

And next week, we will share so many details.

But this week, we thought we'd talk a little bit about something that snuck up on us, and that we didn't necessarily expect to feel during such an exciting week.

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