Thankfully I was able to hire out the deck rebuild but it left us with a problem, how to blend the old and new wood.
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A cheap DIY solution for a removable basement ceiling idea. Using evenly spaced ripped 2x4s to give a clean modern look.
While we have a wonderful sheep barn we knew that in order to move the sheep around different parts of the pasture or even the yard we were also going to need a mobile sheep shelter. The sheep really appreciate the relief from the sun on the hottest days and it doesn’t hurt to be able to get out of the rain as well.
In order to really give my antique reproduction door a vintage look I knew I wanted to apply liming wax over stain to make it look truly aged. I had already worked with liming wax on our pine buffet and had learned a few lessons there about what did or did not work. The very …
There were plenty of options for closing off the basement storage room, but I ended up deciding on a reproduction antique door. Specifically, a copy of a door that my parents found in the barns on their property when they bought it. The scale is a little different and it does affect the charm, but …
As a part of building out the basement mudroom I knew I wanted to add a mudroom bench. Either getting ready to go out in the snow or coming in and pulling off seventeen million layers, a place to sit comes in handy. We also were already using some baskets to organize hats and gloves …
To make this basement room transform from a catch-all into an actually functioning basement mudroom the first step was to add paneling. We had a false start along the entrance wall so we took a step back and made a plan. The basement mudroom plan that we came up was many steps Here is about …
I didn’t originally plan to make a DIY vintage light for my mudrooom / office / workout room / basement area that will likely do more in the future. Working on the room, I knew I wanted to replace the two bare bulb porcelain socket fixtures. Originally I bought two lights from Amazon and was …
After a wonderful stay in a Fixer Upper AirBnb in Waco, I was pretty set on adding a painted faux brick panel wall. I had used thin brick behind our woodstove for our faux mantel but was interested in trying the much cheaper and faster panels. Here is where it ended up (well after I …
I’ve been meaning to make a DIY boot rack for a while now. We have 7 people in the house and live on land that is all blue clay. In winter we have downhill skis, cross country skis, snow boots and general chaos abounding.