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Christiane S

Marble Falls, TX
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  • The sink is the original one from the kitchen in the house, salvaged from the cellar. 18
  • The shelf is a $3 thrift store find. 6
  • The door knob plates from the old door. 1
  • The other plate. 1
  • A couple of clearanced hooks from Hobby Lobby. 1
  • I installed wire mesh into the window space and added this cross section so I would have a place to mount an old rake head for a tool rack. 2
  • The bench is in heavy use already. 12
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Potting Bench

When we replaced the old front door on our 100 year old home, I couldn't bring myself to throw the old one away. This is how we transformed it into a potting bench with repurposed lumber ...»
and few new bits and pieces.

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Lori J Broken Bow, NE
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    Commented on Jun 18, 2012
    Heck I love it. I have been looking for a sink for my green house. I would have kept the hard ...»
    ware and fixed it up so I could attach a hose to it to wash pots and rinse produce etc.

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  • Waterfalls done last summer. I waited until I was finished with all to post to hometalk. 5
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  • before polymeric sand installation and set in stone dust with drainage 1
  • Pond & flagstone patio finished. The pond is 9x16 and we needed an excavation machine to dig it out. So he dug and graded it for me and I did the building. 6
  • my husband did the center and border for me on the patio..
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flagstone patio with stonedust

We got this flagstone from a property being cleared (with permission). There was enough to do a patio off the deck and a pond with a patio. Here is the finish. That is polymeric sand in ...»
the joints. Now it needs to be sealed, wet look or just a glaze? We are not sure. What is best? We did the flagstone pond w/ patio last summer. That is stone dust in between the joints at the pond.

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Jane A Spotsylvania, VA
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    Commented on Jun 12, 2012
    Wish I could find some free stone like this! I plan on building a pond some time with in the ...»
    next year.

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Gardening: Could You Please Help Me Identify This Shrub?

This has small tear drop type leaves and grows pretty pink flowers that turns brown and fall off. ...»

A few years ago, I began a garden partly due to boredom and the other because I loved looking at the gardens in Savannah, Ga. Anyhow, I just planted all types of flowers and shrubs and didn't document them so I never knew what was growing in my gardens when asked. Now, I take pictures of them and document their names. This is the final one in my garden that doesn't have a name. Could you please help me identify it? Thank you:-D

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Pamela F Hinesville, GA
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  • Christiane S
    Commented on May 20, 2012
    Buford holly? I have boxwood and it has never bloomed.
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Rock N Roll Room

This room was painted for Atlanta designer Terri Kemp of Terri Kemp Interiors in Raleigh, N.C. I thought a giant guitar would be fun on the wall and would be something that would be relevant for years.

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Anita Roll Murals Alpharetta, GA
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    Commented on May 06, 2012
    Looks pretty uncluttered for a teens room! : )
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Gardening: What kind of plant is this???

It's growing like wildfire in my yard and i've never seen it before.
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Donna Marie P Buffalo, NY
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    Commented on May 01, 2012
    I don't know what it is, but if I like the looks of a wild plant I keep it for a while or ...»
    transplant to another area if it is not where I would like it. Wild native plants require very little in upkeep and care.

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How NOT to build a fence...

I've been doing a bunch of work for a client up in Wyoming these last couple of weeks. Yesterday when chatting with the clients They mentioned something about a neighbors fence and how ...»
part a shed was modified to do this...I was a bit surprised to hear this. Well the photo does not lie...the corner of the garden shed was cut away to install a fence post. This has got to be the goofiest thing I have seen in a while. What was just as goofy was the neighbor behind this one.

In this second yard the fence extends into the garage...not to the garage but INSIDE the garage. This renders the garage door completely useless. So the two most wacky fence projects I have ever seen are right next door to each other. It almost has me wondering if there is some type of "Bermuda Triangle" of poor fence design there.

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KMS Woodworks Nederland, CO
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  • Christiane S
    Commented on Apr 28, 2012
    Now as for the shed the bottom could have been rotted out and this was their solution, but the ...»
    fence into the garage is just weird.

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Gardening: A little side note...these are pictures of a tree in our back yard, a swarm of bees moved out of their hive,

As I understand it, they took their queen with them and hunkered down in our tree for the night. ...»

A "beeman" was called and he dressed all in white, evidently white doesn't upset the bees. Very gently he moved the majority of them into a box he brought, and said by morning every bee would be in there. And he was right except for maybe 2 lost souls. He took the box and away they went to a new home. He said there were probably 30, 000 bees in this swarm, when they get too numerous, they split, and swarm elsewhere.The original swarm will have 3 or so new queens "born? and the first born will eliminate the others. The tree was humming, very exciting but weird, I have never seen anything like this. Awesome. We stood out there a long time watching and they never bothered us.

Actually this was about 4-5 years ago, I was looking for some "good" pictures of my garden and ran across this! So I am sharing.

Bernice H
Bernice H Yakima, WA
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  • Christiane S
    Commented on Apr 09, 2012
    Looks like bees are alive and well in your area.
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  • A Pallet Sofa! This is by Funky Junk Interiors (Donna). Not only is this built from pallets, she did this completely on her own w.out any plans! http://funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-i-built-pallet-sofa-part-2.html 8
  • Pallet signs! This was done by Julia (Sweet Serendipity) she's got the instructions here:
http://sweetserendipity23.blogspot.com/2011/08/pallet-board-art.html
(She wrote that that the words were chosen by her three children, these are things they want to do as a family, I thought that was so sweet.) 5
  • A pallet TV stand! Also by Funky Junk Interiors (Donna).  Notice that the top if this pallet is sunken in so she actually made a display case on over the top! http://funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com/2010/04/junkin-tv-stand-for-so-you-think-wk-8_18.html
  • A compost bin! This is by Young House Love. It's made out of three pallets and a piece of scrap wood. This is so simple to do, you can even use zip ties! Here's the full story: http://www.younghouselove.com/2011/08/a-pallet-able-compost-post/ 2
  • Another view of the compost bin by YHL before it was complete: http://www.younghouselove.com/2011/08/a-pallet-able-compost-post/ 3
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Pallet Paradise

I really liked the garden pallet posted by Cultivator Landscapes last week, so I started looking at what else you could do with pallets. I found some treasures :) ...»

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Miriam I New York, NY
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  • Christiane S
    Commented on Mar 19, 2012
    These are some great ideas for the little guest house I plan on building. I only have a 1 ...»
    bedroom place and need room for guests.

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Remodeling: Does anyone like IKEA kitchens?

We helped our homeowner remodel his kitchen with IKEA cabinets in order to give them a mid century modern feel to their mid century ranch home. They loved it. What do you think?
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  • Christiane S
    Commented on Feb 25, 2012
    I don't really like the white shiney cabinets, but I do happen to like IKEA. I have a solid ...»
    wood coffee table and a solid wood, very sturdy dining table that I am using as a desk. My cabinets are white, but with brass pulls and one wall is actually a dark blue which reflects the light and a wicker hanging lamp that I found at a yard sale painted the same blue, with blue & white tiles behind the stove and sink. It is amazing what a little color can do.

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