Removing Weeds From Our Paver Driveway
Perhaps this screenshot of our old header will give you a hint as to what we tackled in this outdoor update (which is most likely number 7 …
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.
Making A Compost Bin From Pallets
Ever since we started composting back in 2008 at our old house, we’ve enjoyed doing it (snaps for free fertilizer, reusing “trash,” and get…
How To Paint Your Front Door
We’re back as promised with the whole front door shebang. First, here’s what we started with: Yup, it was an old maroon storm door with thr…
How To Spray Paint A Mailbox
Remember when John met his frog friend (well, technically his toad friend) here? Well, this time around we made a new neighborhood acquaint…
How To Spray Paint A Metal Outdoor Patio Set
Waste not, want not. That was my attitude when it came to using up the rest of the oil-rubbed bronze spray paint from this project that I h…
How To Use Polymeric Sand To Block Weeds In Our Paver Patio
Let’s talk about crack sand. You know we love to save a buck wherever we can. Sometimes to a fault. And as any scrimper knows, sometimes it…
An Easy Porch Update For Curb Appeal
Hope you guys all had an awesome holiday weekend. We had some fun with our family (more on that later in the week) and are still sort of bu…
Planting Leyland Cypress Trees For Added Privacy
Have we mentioned that our house has something lacking in the privacy department in certain areas? If not, consider this the first of sever…
How To Use Weed Blocking Fabric
Yeah, we’re those neighbors. You know, the ones who are so busy working on the inside of the house (slash baby-wrangling) that our yard is …
Planting An Herb Garden In A Metal Tub
Our (continued) indecision about where our vegetable and herb garden should permanently go at our new place means we missed the boat on pla…
How We Transplanted Our Red Maple Tree
We were sneaky. Before we put our first house on the market we dug up a Japanese maple that we had planted in the back. We planted it right…
Outdoor Updates & A Tour
Ok, so lots of people (me included) found this original exterior tour of our yard a bit hard to follow. Our first house was nice and simple…