Garden (de) light at night - LED and solar
We devoted some time to think up some outdoor lighting. I am still searching for the perfect strand of globe lights, but in the meantime we have added some solar and some LED lights to the backyard.
Every year until now, I ha ...
7 different forever plants in the garden
You might have seen when I made some Front door forever decorations earlier this year and of course I have experimented with making forever plants inside for a while here, here and here.
This year, I branched out (!) into the b ...
First weekend outside - new furniture and a side of pineapple under the trees
This weekend we had excellent weather and we put it to good use, getting outside and working on getting the patio back together after all the work was finished. I will post links to all the previous posts of our patio make-over ...
Our Patio progress: Columns make-over and a couple of bandits caught snooping
Last time we left the down stairs patio make over most of it was done except the trim around the columns. Here is what it looked like waaaaay back in March. Remember?
The columns had been painted and they were all good to go. N ...
Our Patio progress: paint, sprinklers, flower bed, and new concrete - the progress
Ready for some progress pictures?
Yesterday I showed you all the work, today I am showing you the progress we have made on our biggest project this year - the Patio and deck remodel.
Ta-daa!
We started out having everything P ...
Our Patio progress: paint, sprinklers, flower bed, and new concrete - the work
Last time I showed you the patio we had just had the whole area Power washed in preparation for painting and other work.
This is what it looked like after the power washing .
Last week I showed you the progress that had been d ...
Progress on the deck off the master - hand rail installed
First a couple of things. There was a party going on here yesterday - still is. So many people stopped by after I got my first two projects accepted the day before over at CraftGawker (Thank you so much!!) - my Felt flower napkin ...
Power washing the deck and patio
This is what the back of our home looked like when we bought it in 2009. We really fell in love with this deck covering the patio. It's huge. 35' by 14'.
Here you can see the walls and windows to our dining room on the left and t ...
Front door forever decorations
Imagine a slideshow of all the plants I have killed over the years. It's long. The plants are brown, dry and ugly.
At my front door I especially have a problem. The mid morning sun blasts my front door and with the Californian he ...
