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Residential Design Firm in Indiana, serving Bloomington, Indianapolis, and beyond. Life is too short not to love your home. ❤️ 🏠
www.susanyeleyhomes.com

Specializing in residential remodels, Susan will help you articulate your personal style and experiences in space, color, light, furniture, textiles, accessories and art. Comfortable working from studs and stone to art and accessories, she'll make sure your home reflects you, whether the budget calls for thrift store hunting or high end custom design.

10/29/2026

Hey Hey, today is National Cat Day! (We have recently learned there are also Global and International Cat Days, lol, but let's just be America-centric about this one insignificant thing, shall we?)

Last winter we were engaged by some super cool people in West Lafayette for THE COOLEST JOB. They had adopted a pair of gorgeous cats who were, to their peril, leaping off their open rail overlooking a lower level. Reading the brief, our Resident Cat Whisper said, "Cats have 9 lives! They are climbers and survivors! They're smart and nimble. They'll be fine." But No! They were not fine. One had already wound up at the vet, and the homeowners had rigged all kinds of not-so-pretty barriers to contain them. Not one to let harm come to any living creature, Leslie went to work to create something safe, beautiful and fun. Something that let the light in from the big windows beyond and did not compete with the client's fantastic gallery wall lining the stairwell. Meanwhile, at our family dinner table, I won "Two Truths and a Lie" with the outrageously awesome story that SYH was hired to create a Custom Cat Containment Wall at Purdue, no less.

10/27/2026

It seems to us every house we rent for is haunted. We look for beautiful, stately old homes to stay in, and as it turns out, those come with ghosts. Evidence includes noises/voices with no evident source, and lights mysteriously not working. 😱👻 But guess what! The SYH team is fearless. We know because we've had to measure some seriously scary spaces. For your Halloween spooky fix, we're sharing a few of our faves. We haven't felt other-worldly presence in all these, but we've definitely wondered aloud about the spirits trapped in crumbling grout lines, worn carpets, and old plumbing. So call SYH if you need to renovate/ exorcise at your house; we're your gals! And meanwhile, Happy Halloween.

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10/22/2026

In other condos in this eastside complex, this little room is usually used as a dining room or TV room. Sometimes it's left off completely for a screened porch. Our client wanted a cozy spot for TV (the only spot in the living room was over the fireplace - and you know how we feel about that), but from Day 1 asked to rebrand the room so that the emphasis was on the cozy, rather than the tv. Welcome to the Snug, everybody's favorite. It features Stone Blue cabinets with green leather pulls, oak-paneled walls, art that evokes the homeowner's love of fashion and sewing, embroidered drapery layered over glare-reducing woven blinds, and the pièce de résistance: an arm chair and ottoman for which we searched high and low, to ensure it was Just Right, Goldielocks style. This little nook of a room lives up to its name. Bring on the chilly evenings; we'll just be right here, snug as a bug.

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🔨: Rusty Peterson Construction (no tag)
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10/20/2026

One of our client's goals with the redesign of her open concept condo was to make the kitchen recede. Although she likes being in the middle of the action while cooking (for herself and for company), she didn't want the space to scream Kitchen! from the adjacent spaces. One of the ways to tone down a kitchen is with a low profile induction cooktop rather than a full range, but this is not a large kitchen, so that meant we needed somewhere for ovens. Enter the Back Kitchen, aka the Scullery, which in this case, doubles as a Laundry Room. Like many builder homes, the laundry/mud room in this condo was stuck between the garage and kitchen, doorways limiting functionality such that the square footage was vastly underutilized and the flow was awkward. We moved the door (and made the new one the best little arched darling), added custom cabinetry on both sides and wallpaper so it felt like a place you want to be, and relocated the mud/drop zone to the garage for a little more elbow space.

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🔨: Rusty Peterson Construction
🚪: Stoll's Woodworking LLC

10/15/2026

THIS HOME. Friends. We could not adore it more. Our project is now complete after about 6 months of design and 5 months of construction, and it is up on our site for your drooling pleasure. Home is always a palpable experience, so it is a real art to capture that spirit on film (ahem, megapixels), and we are so grateful to for her talent and skill. This not-particularly-large condo on Bloomington’s east side was built in 2012 with, for the most part, good bones and the right rooms for our client, laid out in a fairly logical and workable way. What it lacked? Personality. (And, in some key areas, thoughtful design.) Of course our client moved in with all the stories and layers of a life well-lived leading up to this chapter, but she was the first to admit that she didn’t know how to translate who she was now into this new space, in a lasting way that would also work for the long trajectory she envisioned in it. Enter SYH.

Read and see more at the link in our bio, or stay tuned here in the coming weeks.

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🔨: Rusty Peterson Construction

10/13/2026

Is there anything better than the onset of Fall? There may be things as good, but I say nothing better. Still warm enough most days for Birkenstocks and a cotton scarf, the ticks have gone so the dogs can get back on the trails, leaves crunch underfoot, heaters and air conditioners alike get a break, and everyone--I mean everyone--is making chili. If, boiled down to the essence of our work, designers trade in feelings, then October provides fodder that is simply unsurpassed by other seasons and holidays. It's a slant of light and a smell in the air, and a hearth that beckons us home.

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10/08/2026

You should know by now that residential architecture and design is, for us, serious business. A functional kitchen triangle matters. Good natural light, and also appropriate shade and privacy, is crucial. Resilient materials - stone countertops, wool rugs, porcelain tile - make life easier. Ensuring shower doors don't hit shower heads, bed sides have light, you can reach the stuff on the upper shelf, and the second floor stays up: all, nonnegotiable.

But insofar as we can pick and suffer no functional repercussions between a basic lamp shade or a translucent butterfly shade, a standard leg that holds a piece up versus a brass stiletto, or a grey chair versus a two-toned pink and purple one with a yellow welt, I mean. We vote whimsy.

Whatever the reason, these days, I simply cannot get enough whimsy and color and pattern. Picking what to wear now means looking for the least constrictive but most colorful option. (I am so inspired by https://www.instagram.com/homerunballerina/ and https://www.instagram.com/chelseagettingdressed/!) And when the SYH gals gather round our studio island to palette play for a new client, or hunt for art and fabric and stone, we are seeking more punch, more depth, more personality.

See & read more at our latest blog post - follow the link in our bio! (that's for instagram)
See & read more at our latest blog post here! (for facebook, which will allow page links in captions)

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10/06/2026

We just presented art to some current clients who have been living without it (except for their daughter's work) for decades. They don't agree on the medium or style; it is expensive and also makes a statement; they sense that the various pieces need to work together somehow. There are a lot of variables, and since art isn't absolutely necessary--like having a place to sit or something to block the afternoon sun streaming in--it has stopped them in their tracks and been left undone. We get it! But we can help.

Clients who engage SYH in full service design scopes that include expanding or curating art collections have, not gonna lie, the best results. We are jazzed about art and what it can do for a space and the people in it, and we know how to maximize its effect: how to compose a gallery wall (rules, schmules), when to go big (always), how high to hang (lower than you think), what should have a far away view and what you want to pass by closely so you see the details. We have favorite local artists and galleries, and favorites afar and online. Sometimes we commission art the same way we commission custom furniture or rugs, and sometimes we source more affordable prints that transform a space without breaking the bank or looking like you got it at Hobby Lobby. Always, we source art the way we design everything else: to work in the particular home and for the pleasure of the people who live there.

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10/01/2026

I’m so honored to be asked by to sit on her panel at with the illustrious .lyle.design and . (Y’all, these are such talented humans! Click and follow those links!) The group met via zoom this week to prep, and to my great joy, the theme — Getting Discovered in the Age of AI Search — became an earnest discussion of the importance of authenticity in this digital age. Proving yet again that AI has nothing on us humans. If you are in the industry and going to High Point (sorry, Mom) and want to join the discussion, register and come on over to (where, who is kidding, you need to go anyway) at 10am Sunday, Oct. 18. There will be espresso and mimosas and cash-and-carry jewelry! And SYH greats and will be there! Honestly everything about this event is appealing, imho. 😉

09/29/2026

For National Coffee Day, we bring you not just coffee, but great places to brew and drink coffee. Because to be honest, we don’t know if we could choose which matters more: the beverage or the setting.

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Bloomington, IN
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