How To Organize Tools With A Pegboard
Quick note: For now we just have lots of rain and a few wind gusts thanks to Hurricane Sandy, but things are supposed to get a bit rougher …
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.
My Date With Nate
A bunch of you have been asking what I got from Tar-jay for Nate’s big weekend debut, and since I’m a die-hard fan (remember when our hands…
How To Prep Your Lawn For Grass Seed
It’s like I have my own personal Alseed. Yes, that’s a True Blood reference. I totally called John “Alseed” the entire time that he seeded …
How To Organize A Basement Workshop
Now that we’ve cleared out our backyard’s weed & liriope convention, let’s move on to another area that has been sorely lacking our attenti…
Drilling Holes In Your Pumpkins For Spooky Wood Snakes
Just to be clear, that post title is meant to be said in a Dr. Dre-esque fashion like he does in this song (aw yeah, $herdog still rocks ou…
Landscaping Updates In The Backyard
Update: Thanks so much for all the kind words and general awesomeness on yesterday’s post. You guys rock my socks. Ladies and gentlemen, we…
We Bought A Moose Lamp
Knock Knock. Who’s there? Moose. Moose Who? Moose Lamp!!! Wait, but some of that pic is photoshopped. I can explain. It all started when I …
Slowly Updating Our Landscaping
When it comes to our jungle-esque backyard, we last left off with transplanting/digging up one giant 15′ garden bed and leveling it all off…
Simple and Sweet Fall Decorating
We spent yesterday painting the outside of the new doors (along with caulking and painting some peeling siding, because I’m kind of a mania…
We Have A New French Door!
Yesterday we shared a little ditty on DIYing vs. hiring things out with our busted old sliders as the star. They got stuck, had a broken sc…
When To DIY vs. When To Hire It Out
We get the whole “to DIY or not to DIY, that is the question” question a lot, so we thought this might be a great way to crack open our bra…
How We Liked Renting A Bagster Dumpster
So. My basement workshop. I owned up to how messy it was a few months ago. Then building the kid’s dollhouse prompted me to tidy it up a sm…