If you’re like us, you occasionally wonder how to improve the overall curb appeal of your home. In addition to having a clean and organized exterior there are some no-brainer improvements. For example, you could add landscape lighting, dress up the front door or spruce up the yard with shrubs and flowers. Keeping the grass […]
It’s time to say goodbye. It’s been a long time coming. This relationship is wasteful. There are better options out there. It’s true. We’re finally kicking the bottled water habit and switching to a reverse osmosis system (ROS). At any given time over the past year, you could find 5-10 empty bottles of Dasani or […]
Hope everyone is enjoying the last few weeks of summer. While I love the fall, I’m hanging on to the warm weather like it’s my job. I’m sure I’ll get into it once it’s here, but for now it’s going to stay summer around here until the leaves change color. Last weekend we knocked out […]
So things have slowed down a little bit around here since we knocked dragged out our dining room wainscoting and gussied up our front door. It’s going to pick up again soon though. Plus, in the fall I’ll be taking another grad school course. Before we know it, we’ll be busy like crazy. We do […]
You could say this past weekend was somewhat productive. In addition to finally knocking out our dining room wainscoting, we did a couple other projects around the house that have been nagging us. One little improvement that Lisa and I are quite fond of is the front door. We spruced it up a little. Sometime […]
Finally. We’re done the dining room wainscoting project. Yep. All done. Well, except for some minor paint touch ups and a little bit of caulking. BUT, it’s on a 6″ section of doorway baseboard molding, so.. technically, it’s not really IN the dining room. So, like I said. We’re done. High five. I don’t want […]
I was originally thinking about skipping all the posts on our dining room wainscoting until we were completely finished with it. Staged and all. However, it may be another week until it’s all buttoned back up, so I think I’ll just get on with it and show everyone where we’re at. The last couple weeks […]
Wait, what? Is this a car post? Yep. It is. Sorry to have to do this to you, but here’s the deal…. I have this Jeep problem. My SUV has around 160,000 miles on it and it’s got some issues. I’d really, really like to get a brand new car, but I really, really, REALLY […]
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Lisa and I were upstate in NEPA on Friday for an annual golf tournament that’s held in memory of my father. It’s usually a great time and the proceeds are donated to a local charity. This was the fifth year we’ve had it. The tournament is organized and run […]
So on Monday we shared our experience mounting a flat screen TV to a wall. Today, we’re going to show you how to hide the TV’s cables to get a totally sleek look. This is the second TV we’ve done this procedure to at Mike and Dana’s house and this version seemed to work better […]
