How To Install a Drip Irrigation System
Our neighbor recently asked for help adding a drip irrigation system to their new garden. My last experience with a DIY irrigation installa…
Outside Ideas and Projects
Here are a bunch of outside ideas for fixing up your home's curb appeal and updating your outdoors! From laying a paver patio and building a deck to adding a pergola around a garage or carport (or redoing your landscaping and painting your front door) there's lots to see.
5 Ways To Upgrade S’mores – Including Savory S’mores!
We love having friends over to our backyard firepit, which means we eat A LOT of s’mores. That means A LOT of opportunities to try unique t…
Hosting An Outdoor Movie Night – All Of The Equipment You Need For Under $200
I’ve daydreamed about buying a backyard movie set-up (projector, screen, etc) for several summers now. But the logistics and potential expe…
How To Use A Pressure Washer: A Beginner’s Guide
You may think pressure washers are complicated, expensive, or hard to control. But good news – they’re not! Pressure washing is an easy, af…
How To Make A DIY Trellis
Behold: our DIY wire trellis! I’ve wanted to try this project for over a decade and I’m over the moon with how it’s turned out. All it took…
The 12 Best Haint Blue Paint Colors
We love a blue porch ceiling (something you very commonly see – especially in the south). In fact, we’ve painted our porch ceiling a light …
Adding Poured Concrete Walkways & A Driveway
As we mentioned in our post about making a bigger backyard pool area, we’ve also made some big changes out front. Namely, we now have a leg…
How We Doubled The Size (And Function!) Of Our Backyard Pool Area
For nearly a year, we’ve been in the process of reimagining our pool area as a bigger, more multi-functional space. You first saw it two ye…
How To Protect Plants From Freezing
Last month’s arctic blast brought surprisingly frigid temperatures to Florida. We had three consecutive nights with temperatures in the low…
Adding Outdoor Storage
I’ll start this post with a confession: I resented our kitchen porch when we finished it last fall. Resent is a strong and, admittedly, str…
The Best Outdoor Solar Lights
Some people are surprised to hear that we illuminate our entire pool area using nothing but solar LED landscape lights. As in: the sun prov…
New Kitchen Porch
Finally took the photos and videos for this post and I can’t wait to share it because it changed our house in such a major way. Introducing…