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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.

10/13/2026

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.

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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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09/26/2026

If you follow our stories, you know that this past week Team SYH has been busy photographing our gorgeous project - a joy of a thing to spend much of 2026 on, for and with the loveliest of women, who moved here as part of a new chapter in her life, brought SYH on to help her home reflect her present iteration in all the best ways, and has become a new friend to all of us. Last week, we installed the final art, drapery and patio furniture there. In between, and I popped over to the Osage Place neighborhood with the Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County Women+ Build for a sticky hot day working on the homes of two other women who are launching new chapters of their own.

Residential design often catches people at moments of transition, and at SYH, we never take the privilege of being part of that for granted. People in transition especially need all the neuroaesthetic benefits of a stable, thoughtful home. When new clients schedule an Initial Consultation with us, they are prompted to help us help some of the many people in our community who don't have homes that envelope them at the end of a long day. We match their donation of a portion of their consultation fee to their choice of organizations working hard to help people get into stable homes: Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, IN, Beacon, New Hope for Families, Middle Way House, Refugee Support Network, and Trinity Haven Indy.

We deeply believe in the importance of Home. For our clients and for so many people we'll never meet. Thinking of the Fall Equinox this week and holding contradictions in balance, we hold both these things to be true: it is such a privilege to get to work on the artistic, layered homes we create. And gosh are we aware of how many people would benefit from this work, for whom it is out of reach.

photo #2: Michaela Bruns

09/23/2026

Just in time for Autumn to arrive, temperatures here in Indiana have finally dropped! I'm not sure we can promise that football games in the 90s are behind us, but here's hoping. To help propel and inspire the cool down, we bring you some of our favorite fireplaces from past projects. Is there anything better than gathering with your people around firelight?

Last Fall Equinox, I was at a Singing Retreat, because I like to think I'm just a little bit Witch, and group vocal improv and singing up the sun in the morning are absolutely my jam. This year, outside of the art hang and photo shoot and trip to Carmel to meet with a contractor for a new project, I'm busy with and events at the and mostly, wrapping up a season of spectating . It's a good time of year to honor life's many facets and contradictions: dark and light, singing retreats and tailgating, art museums and golf courses. The Fall Equinox is the ultimate cosmic pivot point, a moment of balance in which the forces pulling us are not fighting, for just a moment. This week, I'll be trying hard to notice and savor that pause, lungs full from summer, ready to begin the long exhale of Fall.

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09/21/2026

It was a swelteringly hot September in Indiana — far too hot to sing the praises of outdoor rooms. But actually? If you use it for breakfast coffee and evening cocktails, and you have an umbrella and awning for shade, a well-appointed patio is a good thing to have even in the dog days of summer. When we first saw this one, the combination of concrete and sun made us all run back inside, so we tore up the floor and replaced and extended it with local limestone, and added plenty of lounge furniture, better lighting (rechargable tabletop, string and sconces), and of course, shade. Installed last week in the thick of the humidity, it was ready in time for this week's predicted cool down and planned photo shoot! Word to the wise for Hoosiers and outdoor living, though: if it's not screened in, don't forget the covers!

09/11/2026

Our client brought SYH in as soon as she acquired her new home in Bloomington. We guided her through early space and palette planning, contractor selection, budgeting, fixture and furniture specification, and finally, construction and installation, right down to her mother's angel memorabilia propped on a kitchen ledge. These pictures show the progression through the last bit: construction and install. All the careful planning, coming to life.

At Susan Yeley Homes, we're not just any residential designer firm—we're your project's biggest champions. Our full-service approach means we're with you from your initial resolution to create a home you love, to the final throw pillow placement. Most of our clients choose full service because, let's be real, design is complicated; your plate is full enough.

So, what does full service really mean? It means we handle every aspect of your project, including detailed design conceptualization, product sourcing and specification, construction oversight, purchasing, and installation. We sweat the details so you don't have to.

09/09/2026

We're about to regale you with tales of beautiful, sculptural, hard-working hardwired lighting, but before we do, we must start with this caveat: you still need occasional lighting (ie, lamps)! Don't let this post convince you otherwise. That said, you can do a lot for a space (inside or out) with the right hardwired light fixtures. Bathrooms with just one fixture over the vanity mirror doing all the work make us so sad over here; bathrooms should have overhead lighting, a shower light, a task light and a low/mood light for parties and late night trips to the loo. Halls need sconces or pendants--or both! Kitchens need task lighting everywhere, and also mood lighting, and general ambient light so you can see all the crumbs that need sweeping after breakfast. Evening guests need path lighting. Poker players need a low-hanging pendulum of light suspended over the green felt, carving a sharp island of clarity out of the room’s smoky twilight. Readers need reading lamps, and obviously the world needs more readers.

In sum: more lighting, more variations in lighting type (hanging, wall, ceiling), more interesting lighting (color and vintage for the win, as always) = more happiness. Truly.

And never fall for that "daylight" BS they put on the 4000K bulb box. Buy 2700-3000 Kelvin. No more, no less.

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Bloomington, IN
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