Full disclosure: All the windows on the first floor of our home have temporary shades. In case you were keeping count, that’s three years we’ve been here. I guess it’s not too bad, since they’re fabric. We still intend to replace them with something of a slightly higher quality. In our kitchen and family room, […]
Happy Father’s Day to all of our fathers on earth and in heaven! We hope everyone had a great Sunday. Lisa followed a couple of my gift suggestions from our last post (#2!), so I did pretty well. 🙂 On Saturday, I managed to install a pegboard in our garage above my workbench. While I […]
When work on a major home improvement project finishes up around here, we’re usually left with one space that looks pretty sharp.. and one space filled with scrap wood, empty boxes and tools that haven’t made their way back to their proper place. Those sacrificial spaces are typically the basement and the garage. Now since […]
So even though we haven’t officially hit the summer season yet, we’ve already managed to finish one of the projects on our Summer To-Do List. Our mailbox flowerbed overhaul is all done. Only thing left to do is water it everyday for the rest of my natural life. Yay! Last week we showed you how […]
Hope everyone had a happy and safe Memorial Day! Thanks always to those who gave their lives in defense of the freedoms we hold dear. This past weekend we had a small family get together for our daughter’s Christening. Good times. We also managed to squeeze in some gardening and DIYing, of course. As much […]
Happy Mother’s Day! Hope you had a great holiday. We pretty much hung out with our families all weekend. Good stuff. Good stuff. Ate too much. Today I wanted to bring you a quick how-to on making concrete planters. Last week we shared the results of our attempt to make a monogrammed planter. While we […]
It’s Pinterest Challenge Day everybody! It’s like “show and tell” for bloggers… times ten. Since the weather has been getting warmer, the yard has been on our minds more often lately. What better way to kick off our outdoor season than with garden style Pinterest Challenge project. We attempted a somewhat ambitious project and decided […]
Hey all! Hope everyone is doing well. Had another productive weekend around here. We got a huge jump on our Pinterest Challenge project. Stay tuned for that! We posted a couple hint photos on our Instagram account. Last week, we wrapped up our sitting room built-in. I also promised a quick post on how to […]
***UPDATE: The plans to this built-in cabinet are now available for free to our newsletter subscribers. If you are interested in subscribing to our free newsletter to get access to these plans, just sign up using the form in this post.*** Monday is my first day back to work after two wonderful weeks home with […]
Do you have something around your home that’s been sorta broken but not quite broken enough to fix it yet? For us, that forever broken item has been the closet door in our master bedroom. Since our home is still fairly new (built in 2010) it’s subject to some degree of settling and movement. Usually […]
