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Home Tour: Inside Content Creators Nina Huynh and Dejan Stanić’s Thrift-Filled Home

In their New West condo, the creative power couple mix DIY projects, bold thrift finds and family life—one eclectic treasure at a time.

By Kerri Donaldson /

In Nina Huynh and Dejan Stanić’s eclectic New Westminster home, you’ll find pastel-painted doors, nostalgic neo-pop art (think childhood cereal mascots in Supreme hoodies) and an undeniable DIY spirit. It’s hard to believe they’ve only been here for three years—save for a brief L.A. detour—because the place feels like a long-established creative playground.

Huynh (@yourgirlneens) started building her online following with thrift hauls and candid day-in-the-life vlogs on YouTube before blowing past 100,000 subscribers. “She was internet famous when I met her,” Stanić says. Huynh’s channel (now with more than 180,000 fans) and Instagram (nearly 70K strong) help support the family—Huynh and Stanić have two little boys, Blu and Lucky. “I want this girl to chill,” jokes Stanić, acknowledging his wife’s ever-busy schedule. (“We were in Tokyo, then I had to head straight to Paris for Pharrell Williams’s Over the Moon Lego launch,” recalls Huynh. “I literally came home for two days for Lucky’s birthday before flying out again.”)

The couple’s home also doubles as a creative workshop. “We start a lot of projects and businesses,” says Huynh. “Whenever we have an idea, we just go for it, successful or not, it’s all a learning experience.” Case in point: the two of them launched a custom tissue box company called Chuck Me a few years back; today, Stanić is building his own fashion brand. “I’ve been really into sewing,” he says, referencing half-finished workwear pieces he hopes to release under the label DayOff (his Serbian name is pronounced “Day-On”). His own popular Instagram account, @dejansdayoff, tracks his fashion journey and their DIY projects: he’s painted skateboard decks and recently (as in, the day before this photo shoot) tried to sand down a once-blue dining table by hand. “I had no idea an electric sander was that cheap,” he laughs.

From the dumpster-rescued painting crowning the fireplace to a framed to-go bag from Nemesis Coffee, nearly every object decorating the cozy condo tells a story. Even a random CD from the couple’s first vlog together—chosen blindly at a Value Village in Seattle—earns a spot in a frame. “Art for us is less typical,” says Stanić. “It’s personal memories, found objects, that sort of thing.”

Huynh and Stanić are self-described thrifting addicts—the table and the rainbow quilt are both recent finds. “We basically live on Marketplace,” says Stanić. “It’s part of the thrill.” The big squiggly mirror was a Marketplace find that was, as he puts it, “difficult to bring here.” Photo by Tanya Goehring
Photo by Tanya Goehring
Photo by Tanya Goehring
Stanić has two vintage Jaguars… and a landline phone shaped like a jaguar, too, which the couple uses to buzz in visitors. “Its eyes light up,” says Stanić with a laugh.Our Song A framed disc is a memento of the first vlog the content creators did together. “My Jaguar could only play CDs… we just, like, closed our eyes and picked one,” recalls Stanić—an enduring symbol of early adventures. Photo by Tanya Goehring
Photo by Tanya Goehring
Photo by Tanya Goehring
The couple’s child Blu has his own painted Bearbrick figurine alongside a larger toy collection. “We love displaying Blu’s artwork and he tells us how happy it makes him for us to put it up,” says Huynh. “Sometimes he will make something and hand it to us and say, ‘Frame it, please.’” Photo by Tanya Goehring
Proving that one person’s trash is truly another’s treasure, this large artwork was rescued from the trash near their old place and now crowns the fireplace mantel. Photo by Tanya Goehring
Photo by Tanya Goehring