Getting A Pool – The Process & The Cost
It’s been a full year in the making, but OUR POOL IS DONE*! Here’s where I imagine someone saying “and the crowd goes wiiiiild” (and the cr…
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.
How To Build A Privacy Trellis
BRB, just changing the name of this blog to “Solving Problems With Plants.” And I know we promised a huge pool post, but the pool is still …
How To Strip A Deck For Stain
When we bought our house, the deck was in ROUGH shape. Before we could revive it with a fresh coat of stain, we had to strip off the old st…
How To Make A Cozy Fire Pit Area
We’ve been enjoying this fire pit hangout spot for months now, but it hasn’t been on the blog… until today. This is basically a lesson in h…
How To Hang An Outdoor Daybed (On Video!)
Last week we shared how we built the DIY outdoor hanging daybed that we installed on our front porch. And as promised, I’m back to share ho…
How To Build A Hanging Daybed
Back in October we mentioned our plans to add a hanging daybed to the covered portion of our front porch and our entire family couldn’t be …
Front Porch Makeover (We Painted The Ceiling!)
It has been about five months since we first introduced you to the outside of our house. That was our very first week of living here, and o…
A Deck Makeover Using Low Maintenance Outdoor Furniture
In addition to our 1400 square feet of indoor space, we’re lucky that our house also has some pretty great outdoor spaces – including a lar…
Outdoor Shower Makeover
Our Cape Charles beach house quickly taught us the value of an outdoor shower. By giving people a spot to rinse off before coming inside, i…
Smaller Home’s Exterior Makeover
You guys. I am very excited about this post. And John’s computer froze and crashed two times this morning while we were trying to work on t…
Painted Brick House’s Exterior Makeover
We’re currently still in Richmond (not for much longer though!), and in order to share a huge progress post about our Florida house’s exter…
Painting Our Shed & Adding Window Boxes
This post is for everyone who has been asking for a shed update since we finally painted it to match our white house (it only took us a yea…