Finishing Our Sandbox Project
Ready for the next chapter of our sandbox project? If you’re not, I can tell you one person who definitely was. Her name rhymes with Blara.…
Second House Ideas and Projects
Here's how we updated and transformed our second house with DIY projects and a lot of sweat equity! Check out all of the before and after pictures and project tutorials so you can whip up your own room makeovers.
How To Build A Sandbox
Building the kid a sandbox has been a project that was nearly a year in the making. Just check out this post about her first birthday party…
Clearing A Path To Our Front Door
Let’s do the path (I’m not good at math, but digging up a path, I can do). And John’s good at both. Overachiever, much? Anyway, this is jus…
Listy McListerson (Updated)
Psst- For everyone asking what we did for Easter and what the kid found in her basket – check out those details here on Young House Life. B…
How To Frost A Window With Frosting Film
This post is actually about three bathroom updates, the first of which concerns this baby – the window. Aka the anti-privacy device located…
Planting A River Birch Tree
No? Me either. But it’s coming. Slowly but surely. After tackling the area to the right of the porch, next on the ol’ to-do list was: the a…
From Christmas Mantel & Halloween Mantel To Spring Mantel
Having a fireplace in the kitchen is definitely something that we think is charming (it’s the heart of the home, and even though it’s not f…
How To Change A Toilet
First: I apologize for subjecting you to more pictures of toilets. I’m sure you don’t read our blog for pictures of toilets. But on the oth…
Planting A Dwarf Pieris Japonica Variagated Tree
Yup, we’ve been digging. And my arms are sore. But they don’t look like Madonnas yet so it couldn’t have been that bad. We still have a ton…
Cheap Bathroom Update
This guy: You saw the wall we were dealing with before we removed the not-very-functional shelf and towel bar here: And you saw it again af…
Planting Blue Hydrangeas
It looked sweet when we finished it last year, especially if you ignored the fact that we had lots of landscaping stuff to attend to behind…
How To Plant Succulents
I’m on a greenery kick (both outdoors and apparently indoors as well), so this is the story of four cheap-o succulents that I impulse-bough…