How To Paint Exterior Siding
Remember back when we debated painting the siding on the front porch way back here in fall 2011? Hence the creepy Halloween wreath on the d…
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 Hang Window Boxes
Word up my fellow Pinterest playas. Hope you got down with some baking, crafting, painting, organizing, sewing, building, or knitting fun b…
How To Stain & Seal The Deck
With our power washing done we could finally stain and seal our deck, which we completed and re-furnished on Tuesday (literally hours befor…
Using A Pressure Washer To Clean Wood, Brick, And Cement
Note: This post features a heavy-duty, gas-powered pressure washer we rented from the store. To see how we now use a $99 electric version w…
How To Build A Garage Pergola
Parking our car got a little more scenic this weekend with the completion of our carport pergola. Or, cargola (pergolaport?) if you will. L…
Planning And Prepping A Carport Pergola
What carport? This carport. You know, the one that almost kept us from considering this house because we were so anti-carport? My how we’ve…
How To Remove An Overgrown Vine From A Tree
(Punny alternate post title: Heard It Through The Giant Non-Grape Vine) Ok, so remember the ol’ crazyvine that was putting the squeeze on a…
How To Box Out Curvy Porch Columns
And I’m calling this bad boy done. Commence the rejoicing! And to recap why we wanted to box those columns in: the carport has 4 columns th…
Removing Scalloped Porch Trim & Fixing Porch Columns
We’ve been talking about streamlining (buh-bye scallop) and beefing up the porch (namely those columns) ever since we moved in back in 2010…
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 …
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…
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…