Better Outdoor Living at Home
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About Me:
If the outdoors at your house is important to you, then you are at the right place! We are 2 sisters, Mary & Kathy. We are both land. architects and love everything about residential design, and hope to share some inspiration,,,we want you to create a beautiful outdoors at home!
Favorite area of home improvement:
Everything! Interior/exterior home improvements, decor projects, DIY projects, gardening and landscape improvements - everything that makes a house a home.
Recent Activity
Summer Table Setting With Blue Mason Jars
A simple summer table set with blue mason jar centerpieces and cottage flowers
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CommentedLove the soft colors of the flowers with the blue of the jar - so summery! ~M
How to Create a Summertime Mantel...for Free!
Creating a mantel with a Summer look and feel can be quick and easy. And free. All you need is a good pair of garden clippers, a sturdy pair of shoes, some jumping/climbing abilities -
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CommentedLove the pitcher vases filled with the Queen Anne's Lace. Very pretty. ~M
Beach Inspired Console Table
Here are some before and after photos of my beach inspired console table. I’m going to call it a console table rather than a sofa table simply based on the fact that I now have it
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CommentedIt certainly has the 'Wow' factor now! Very pretty. ~M
Use Your Old Coffee Grounds in the Garden.
Are you a big coffee drinker? If you are, you will have used coffee grounds. Don't throw them away...used them in the garden.
There are many ways to use them. Camellias, hydrangeas, and roses are all nitrogen loving plants so the coffee grounds help.
The grounds are also a great deterrent for slugs and snails around hostas and other plants that the pests love.
See more ideas:
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CommentedI have been using coffee grounds in the garden, but haven't tried it to deter slugs - good tip! ~M
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‘Happy Returns’ Daylily – A Perennial A Week
We started 'A Perennial a Week' series - it should be a fun way to discover new plants for the yard! We think this week's perennial would definitely make a bright and cheery impression in any landscape or garden, with its lemon yellow trumpet-shaped flowers nestled in the tips of its slender grass-like green foliage.
What do you think of the 'Happy Returns' daylily?
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I recall mine being a much paler yellow than that, but it is a lovely daylily, with a nice ...»
A Painted Lady at Wednesday's Before and After
Today's Before and After is a furniture makeover from Restoration Redoux. No more boring, plain Jane. This one's a looker now!
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CommentedGosh, that's beautiful. ~M
Gardening: What is this Shrub?
This 10' tall shrub is covered in gorgeous little pink flowers. The branches have an arching form when the shrub is in bloom.The bark is always shedding (that's a good thing). There are
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CommentedLooks like a weigela to me, too. ~M
Gardening: I bought a Shasta daisy at Walmart,,I couldn't pull them apart !
I want to seperate then for the garden, would it be ok to cut the roots to seperate them, they
are not looking good packed together like they are. I can't pull them apart- so cut or not to cut ?
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CommentedYou should be able to cut them. I divide my perennials with a shovel when they get too large. ...»