Quick, Updated Tour of Our Dining RoomEver since I added trim around our cased openings and board and batten in our dining room, the walls in there have been blank. I was just ... Read more >>>
How Not to Refinish Your Dining Table
How I Refinished Our Dining Table: The Good, The Bad, The UglyI'll warn you. This doesn't end the way I wanted, but I think it's a story and how-to worth sharing. Learn from ... Read more >>>
DIY Gates for Deck Stairs
How to Build Gates for a Wood DeckIf you have little ones roaming around, you know the feeling when you see them head towards the stairs! For inside stairs you can buy a ... Read more >>>
Curb Appeal Update 2018
How Our Yard is Looking One Year After UpdatesAbout a year ago I shared how to make vinyl shutters look brand new. It was supposed to be a series of 'curb appeal' posts about ... Read more >>>
Cherry-Picked: AcuRite Rain Gauge
My Favorite Wireless Rain Gauge?You might laugh when I say I am not a weather nerd. Yet here I am confessing my love for a rain gauge!* But it's all because what I am a total ... Read more >>>
Does Homax Porcelain Chip Fix Work?
My Review of Homax's Porcelain Chip Fix in a SinkIn short, it didn't work for me the first time. But I always like to give the benefit of the doubt, so I applied it a second ... Read more >>>
Master Bathroom with Hotel Style
How To Add Style to a Bathroom With Paint And IngenuityYou don't need an entire remodel or a construction company to make your master bathroom feel fresh, new, or like you ... Read more >>>
“Treeing-Up” Bushes
A fun, and easy, way to prune bushes I've always referred to the process of pruning a bush to look like a tree as "treeing it up". But upon searching that term on the interwebs, ... Read more >>>
Easy, Fast, and Cheap Extension Cord Repair
How to Repair an Extension Cord YourselfIt costs less than $4 to repair an extension cord if it’s accidentally cut during use! And it doesn’t require any special tools or ... Read more >>>