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The Perfect Stone Walkway
April 20, 2012 No CommentsWe built a beautiful English Cottage style home a little over a year ago and have finally put the finishing touches on the interior and are now ready to finish up the exterior. We have the grass planted and landscaping done but now need to add a walkway that invites people to enter through our [...]
Pin ItIndoor Plant Care – Get A Green Thumb
March 22, 2012 No CommentsWe have lived in one of those adobe style homes for over ten years now and have finally added a garden window to our breakfast room. The window fills the entire wall and I can’t wait to bring the outdoors in and fill it with all types of potted houseplants and blooming flowers. I [...]
Pin ItLove Small Home Living
March 14, 2012 No CommentsWe have lived in one of those beautiful Country French homes for many years. It is a large home with plenty of square footage for the entire family. When we first moved in I had a hard time filling all the rooms with furniture. Through a job transfer our family is moving to an [...]
Pin ItEfficiency: Berm Style Homes
February 29, 2012 No CommentsWe have just brought property on the outskirts of town and are going through the tedious process of what type of home to build. We currently live in a large European style home. It is a beautiful home and while the kids were young it was wonderful and everyone had plenty of room to roam. [...]
Pin ItAccessorizing With Mirrors
February 10, 2012 No CommentsWe have just purchased one of those cozy cottage homes on a lake about an hour from our current home. This will be the perfect vacation home for our family to enjoy on the weekends. The home is in great shape and once we roll a fresh coat of paint on the walls we will [...]
Pin ItStraightening Up The Bookshelves
February 2, 2012 No CommentsMy daughter came home last weekend from college and not only dropped off her dirty laundry but also a bag of books she had read. Before heading back to school she was scouring the bookshelves to find new books she hadn’t read yet. She only took a few because the shelves were in such [...]
Pin ItPerfect Wine And Wine Cellar
January 17, 2012 No CommentsThe ruby wedding anniversary is a special one. Spending 40 years together gives a couple a wonderful reason to celebrate and my parents are off celebrating their 40th with a month long trip to Europe. That gives my siblings and I just 30 days to install their anniversary gift – a built-in wine cellar. [...]
Pin ItControlling Heating Costs
January 9, 2012 No CommentsYou always hear about the 20 something’s going to college, graduating and moving back into their parent’s home. We never thought this would happen to us but it is a reality and our son is back home. For a college graduate jobs are hard to find and if you don’t have a job you [...]
Pin ItBilliards Room Ideas
December 29, 2011 No CommentsI don’t know about you but I’m tired of every time we try to do something as a family my children are half there. We share their time with cell phones, texting, iPods, video games, etc. The list can go on and on because they are always hooked up to something. My husband and [...]
Pin ItAll About Fixings and Fasteners
November 8, 2011 No CommentsGetting down to the “nuts and bolts” has always been synonymous with looking at the essential parts, integral to the successful completion of a project; when you’re talking about a construction project, saying this is as pertinent as ever. It is easy to overlook fixings and fasteners when you are first planning a project, but [...]
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