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9 Affordable Ways to Tweak Your Home’s Exterior Appearance

Homeowners who would like to make their home more saleable, or upgrade the look of their home’s exterior on a small budget, have at least nine affordable projects. Homeowners often take their home’s exterior for granted. But, by making inexpensive improvements, the home canlook much better. Buyers will be more impressed and, even if the homeowner plans to remain in the home, it will seem new again. In hard times,…

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Best On The Block: How To Add Serious Curb Appeal

When it comes to sprucing up our homes, many of us tend to devote more energy and enthusiasm to interior design. While it’s beneficial to exercise your creative talents and showcase your taste and style indoors, it’s important not to neglect the exterior of your property. Curb appeal counts, especially if you plan to sell your home. Here are some simple ways to ensure your home is the best looking…

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Amazing Ideas That Will Add Value to Your Home

When you are a homeowner, you need to make sure you do what you can to look at some of the best ways of improving your home. And one of the key things to keep in mind here is the fact that you can make changes to add value to the property. This is massively important for the home as a long-term asset, and can also prove to be really…

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Creating Your Backyard Bungalow

Creating Your Backyard Bungalow

Living in Florida we spend A LOT of time outdoors. In fact, we are able to spend time outdoors ALL YEAR LONG. Lately, we are spending even more time outside since we are all social distancing and self quarantining these days. We are so thankful to have a nice outdoor space, pool and covered lanai. With spring officially here, it’s the perfect time for you to spruce up your outdoor…

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4 Tips On Maintaining Your Wooden Fences

4 Tips on Maintaining Wooden fences

The exterior spaces of our homes can often get neglected when it comes to design work or a revamp. Yet, these areas of our homes really do need some TLC now and then! The outside of your home creates the first impression, so whether it’s to impress the neighbors or the in-laws, you’ll want to make it a good one! Wooden fences can be an excellent feature to any backyard;…

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Adding Artificial Turf to our Upper Deck

In 2016 when we were remodeling this house, our contractor suggested adding a railing to our large upper deck area so we’d be able to use the space.  We were so burned out from our remodel at that point and had already gone way over budget, so we decided, nope, not doing it now.  Maybe we’ll do it at a later time.   Below is a picture taken during the construction…

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How To Create A Low Maintenance Gravel Flower Bed

For those who aren’t particularly green fingered and don’t enjoy the continuous task of weeding their flower beds then the answer may lie in a simple upgrade to a low maintenance gravel alternative. Not only do gravel flower beds looks good all year round, they require less maintenance than soil beds and can make your garden look as though you’ve spent some serious time thinking about landscaping and design. So…

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How to Plant a Butterfly Garden – Summer Project with my Kids

When my older son was in 3rd grade, his class planted a bunch of milkweeds, and they watched as a few caterpillars formed into chrysalises and then into butterflies and they learned all about that process.  It was so cool, and all the kids loved it.  This year one of his 6th grade classes did the same thing.  We’ve been talking about planting a butterfly garden of our own for…

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