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We Turned Our Front Entrance into a Vibrant Vegetable Garden

#FrontGarden #VegetableGarden #GardenMakeover #DIYGarden #RaisedBeds #HomeGarden #Gardening #BeforeAfter #GardenTransformation #OutdoorLiving #GrowYourOwn #KitchenGarden #SmallGarden #GardenInspiration #HomeImprovement
#dining #cooking #diet #food #VegetableGardening #VegetableGarden #VegetableGardenVideos #VegetableGardeningVideos
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2728579/we-turned-our-front-entrance-into-a-vibrant-vegetable-garden/

Maryland Fall Home & Garden + Craft Show returning in October https://www.allforgardening.com/1878071/maryland-fall-home-garden-craft-show-returning-in-october/ #crafter's #diy #FamilyActivities #garden #HolidaySeason #HomeImprovement #landscaping #MaineCabinMasters #MakersMarket #MarylandStateFairgrounds #OutdoorLiving #PettingZoo #TheMarylandFallHome&Garden+CraftShow

“From Dirty Corner to Dream Garden 😍🌿 | So Satisfying!”#usa #gardendesign #shorts #shortsfeed https://www.allforgardening.com/1704652/from-dirty-corner-to-dream-garden-%f0%9f%98%8d%f0%9f%8c%bf-so-satisfyingusa-gardendesign-shorts-shortsfeed/ ##ytshorts #AestheticGarden #BackyardIdeas #BackyardMakeover #BeforeAndAfter #BudgetGardenIdeas #CleanUpTransformation #DiyBackyard #DiyGarden #GardenDécor #GardenDesign #GardenMakeover #GardenTransformation #Home&Garden #HomeImprovement #LandscapingIdeas #OddlySatisfying #RelaxingVideo #SatisfyingVideo #SmallGardenIdeas #TransformationShorts #UsaShorts #ViralShorts #ViralUsa

How to Make a Sliding, Self-Locking, and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Door (2020)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-make-a-sliding-self-locking-and-predator-proof-chicken-coop-door.75906/

#HackerNews #ChickenCoop #DIYProjects #HomeImprovement #BackyardChickens #Predatorsafety

Big shout-out to Xyla Foxlin on #Youtube for demystifying fiberglass for me. I'm repairing rusted out holes in the bulkhead door to the basement, and it was way closer to the tool for the job than the lumpy expanding foam that was there before.

https://youtube.com/@xylafoxlin?si=qe8VEQWVDKid1Sj6

#DIY #HomeImprovement #HomeRepair #Repair #XylaFoxlin #Fiberglass

Wednesday marked a personal milestone that I had to research before gracing it with a calendar entry: Twenty years earlier, my wife and I moved into the house that we still occupy today.

Signing the papers for that 1920 bungalow represented a step into the real-estate unknown in 2004. A few months earlier, realizing that the condo I’d bought four years earlier had appreciated to almost double that purchase price, it had seemed sensible at least to see what was on the market nearby–and after visiting 10 properties, one with a big old front porch and what we thought was well-renovated kitchen seemed like it would fit into our budget and provide just enough room for a family.

So we considered the reality of housing not getting any cheaper around here and chose to take the step that turned out to be more of a leap.

We didn’t want to move anytime soon afterwards–I hate moving so much–two of us became three of us, the seasons rolled on by, and at a point I didn’t even think to look up in 2019, our tenure in this house surpassed the 15 years or so that I had spent in my childhood home.

An equally unknown date in 2020 marked our home’s presumptive 100th birthday (“presumptive” meaning that the property-tax records that aren’t specific on the construction date could have the year wrong too). But the pandemic that gave us so much around-the-house time meant we couldn’t properly celebate our abode achieving century-home status anyway.

Another four years have elapsed, during which I have begun to enjoy seeing how much the balance on the mortgage drops with each payment, and here we are.

We’ve shaped the house in our own ways, repainting it on the inside and out while making minor and major repairs and improvements that in 2008 turned a shoebox of a room upstairs into a legitimate home office and this winter finally gave us a new kitchen. And it’s shaped us, turning me in particular into not just a cook but a baker and occasional homebrewer and providing me with a much bigger canvas for my gardening than the condo’s balcony (alas, I still suck at growing tomatoes).

The neighborhood, meanwhile, has advanced immensely as buildings have continued to sprout around the two closest Metro stops while Arlington continues to carve out more room along our streets for pedestrians and cyclists. It’s not always clear that individual blocks near us have improved as much when homes looking like ours keep getting torn down and replaced by McMansions–but I know one address where that’s not going to happen anytime soon.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/07/20/twenty-years-is-a-long-time-in-one-house/

#bungalow #centuryHome #frontPorch #homeImprovement #homeownership #house #houseiversary #mortgage

Another day for the kitchen remodel project. Here’s hoping it’s the last day.

They are doing some touch up work on things that have otherwise been finished. They are hanging some stuff on top of the tile. They are doing a little painting.

I think that’s all that’s left to do. Once they are done we have to clean up any dust they left behind and then wash all of the dishes that have been sitting out collecting dust over the last week and then find a new home for everything in the new cabinet/storage setup.

I am so ready for this project to be over. I want my house back again.

Unrelated note… I used my good camera to take today’s photo a day picture. I will post it now for no reason at all.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/05/almost-done-i-hope/

#365 #365Challenge #homeImprovement #homeOwner #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #kitchen #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

Another day for the kitchen remodel project. Here’s hoping it’s the last day.

They are doing some touch up work on things that have otherwise been finished. They are hanging some stuff on top of the tile. They are doing a little painting.

I think that’s all that’s left to do. Once they are done we have to clean up any dust they left behind and then wash all of the dishes that have been sitting out collecting dust over the last week and then find a new home for everything in the new cabinet/storage setup.

I am so ready for this project to be over. I want my house back again.

Unrelated note… I used my good camera to take today’s photo a day picture. I will post it now for no reason at all.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/05/almost-done-i-hope/

#365 #365Challenge #homeImprovement #homeOwner #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #kitchen #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

Another day for the kitchen remodel project. Here’s hoping it’s the last day.

They are doing some touch up work on things that have otherwise been finished. They are hanging some stuff on top of the tile. They are doing a little painting.

I think that’s all that’s left to do. Once they are done we have to clean up any dust they left behind and then wash all of the dishes that have been sitting out collecting dust over the last week and then find a new home for everything in the new cabinet/storage setup.

I am so ready for this project to be over. I want my house back again.

Unrelated note… I used my good camera to take today’s photo a day picture. I will post it now for no reason at all.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/05/almost-done-i-hope/

#365 #365Challenge #homeImprovement #homeOwner #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #kitchen #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

Another day for the kitchen remodel project. Here’s hoping it’s the last day.

They are doing some touch up work on things that have otherwise been finished. They are hanging some stuff on top of the tile. They are doing a little painting.

I think that’s all that’s left to do. Once they are done we have to clean up any dust they left behind and then wash all of the dishes that have been sitting out collecting dust over the last week and then find a new home for everything in the new cabinet/storage setup.

I am so ready for this project to be over. I want my house back again.

Unrelated note… I used my good camera to take today’s photo a day picture. I will post it now for no reason at all.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/05/almost-done-i-hope/

#365 #365Challenge #homeImprovement #homeOwner #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #kitchen #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

The plumber went out to get some dinner. He expects he has about two hours more work to do tonight. It’s 600pm. I think we’re going to be working until after 9:00pm again tonight.

Insert the sign of frustration here.

Stressing out like nuts over here, kids. Like nuts.

The plumber just walked in the door. Here’s hoping he can wrap it up in two hours. Fingers crossed.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/04/frustration-2/

#homeImprovement #homeOwner #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #kitchen #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #plumber #Plumbing

The plumber went out to get some dinner. He expects he has about two hours more work to do tonight. It’s 600pm. I think we’re going to be working until after 9:00pm again tonight.

Insert the sign of frustration here.

Stressing out like nuts over here, kids. Like nuts.

The plumber just walked in the door. Here’s hoping he can wrap it up in two hours. Fingers crossed.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/04/frustration-2/

#homeImprovement #homeOwner #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #kitchen #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #plumber #Plumbing

The plumber went out to get some dinner. He expects he has about two hours more work to do tonight. It’s 600pm. I think we’re going to be working until after 9:00pm again tonight.

Insert the sign of frustration here.

Stressing out like nuts over here, kids. Like nuts.

The plumber just walked in the door. Here’s hoping he can wrap it up in two hours. Fingers crossed.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/04/frustration-2/

#homeImprovement #homeOwner #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #kitchen #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #plumber #Plumbing

The last time we had a home improvement project done was about a year ago when we had new windows installed. When the project started we were so excited. After a few days without the project being completed our mood changed and the whole thing just became super frustrating. We wanted it to be over so that we could have our house back again.

We expected the kitchen remodel project we’re currently involved with to take ages. The contractor told us he would have everything installed by the end of the second day. Then we needed walls patched and tile work done, plumbing work, and touch up and paint work.

The tile guy got here yesterday around 8:00am. He left a little before 10:00pm. It was around 8:30pm or so when the mood for this project changed again. We just crossed some invisible line between excitement and frustration. It’s is totally unfair to the contractors because we are still in their estimated window of how long it would take to finish everything. It doesn’t matter. It’s all just stress now, no more excitement.

The tile guy is coming back today. The plumber is coming too. It’s 9:26am and we haven’t heard from either of them yet, but we aren’t expecting to until after 10:00. IKEA was just here picking up some of the things we need to return to them. There is a mountain more stuff that needs to be returned. We aren’t sure if we can get them to come back or not. I expect we’ll be driving down there one of these days soon. We also need to book a junk pick up because there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be removed still. We also need to clean off all of the dust that is covering everything before we use anything in our new kitchen.

I’m stressing out. We’re stressing out. It’s starting to be difficult.

I went to Home Depot this morning to pick up some stuff for the tile guy. Pics from the drive home… because.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/04/the-mood-has-changed/

#design #homeImprovement #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #iphoneography #kitchen #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #photography #remodeling #renovation

The last time we had a home improvement project done was about a year ago when we had new windows installed. When the project started we were so excited. After a few days without the project being completed our mood changed and the whole thing just became super frustrating. We wanted it to be over so that we could have our house back again.

We expected the kitchen remodel project we’re currently involved with to take ages. The contractor told us he would have everything installed by the end of the second day. Then we needed walls patched and tile work done, plumbing work, and touch up and paint work.

The tile guy got here yesterday around 8:00am. He left a little before 10:00pm. It was around 8:30pm or so when the mood for this project changed again. We just crossed some invisible line between excitement and frustration. It’s is totally unfair to the contractors because we are still in their estimated window of how long it would take to finish everything. It doesn’t matter. It’s all just stress now, no more excitement.

The tile guy is coming back today. The plumber is coming too. It’s 9:26am and we haven’t heard from either of them yet, but we aren’t expecting to until after 10:00. IKEA was just here picking up some of the things we need to return to them. There is a mountain more stuff that needs to be returned. We aren’t sure if we can get them to come back or not. I expect we’ll be driving down there one of these days soon. We also need to book a junk pick up because there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be removed still. We also need to clean off all of the dust that is covering everything before we use anything in our new kitchen.

I’m stressing out. We’re stressing out. It’s starting to be difficult.

I went to Home Depot this morning to pick up some stuff for the tile guy. Pics from the drive home… because.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/04/the-mood-has-changed/

#design #homeImprovement #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #iphoneography #kitchen #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #photography #remodeling #renovation

The last time we had a home improvement project done was about a year ago when we had new windows installed. When the project started we were so excited. After a few days without the project being completed our mood changed and the whole thing just became super frustrating. We wanted it to be over so that we could have our house back again.

We expected the kitchen remodel project we’re currently involved with to take ages. The contractor told us he would have everything installed by the end of the second day. Then we needed walls patched and tile work done, plumbing work, and touch up and paint work.

The tile guy got here yesterday around 8:00am. He left a little before 10:00pm. It was around 8:30pm or so when the mood for this project changed again. We just crossed some invisible line between excitement and frustration. It’s is totally unfair to the contractors because we are still in their estimated window of how long it would take to finish everything. It doesn’t matter. It’s all just stress now, no more excitement.

The tile guy is coming back today. The plumber is coming too. It’s 9:26am and we haven’t heard from either of them yet, but we aren’t expecting to until after 10:00. IKEA was just here picking up some of the things we need to return to them. There is a mountain more stuff that needs to be returned. We aren’t sure if we can get them to come back or not. I expect we’ll be driving down there one of these days soon. We also need to book a junk pick up because there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be removed still. We also need to clean off all of the dust that is covering everything before we use anything in our new kitchen.

I’m stressing out. We’re stressing out. It’s starting to be difficult.

I went to Home Depot this morning to pick up some stuff for the tile guy. Pics from the drive home… because.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/04/the-mood-has-changed/

#design #homeImprovement #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #iphoneography #kitchen #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #photography #remodeling #renovation

The last time we had a home improvement project done was about a year ago when we had new windows installed. When the project started we were so excited. After a few days without the project being completed our mood changed and the whole thing just became super frustrating. We wanted it to be over so that we could have our house back again.

We expected the kitchen remodel project we’re currently involved with to take ages. The contractor told us he would have everything installed by the end of the second day. Then we needed walls patched and tile work done, plumbing work, and touch up and paint work.

The tile guy got here yesterday around 8:00am. He left a little before 10:00pm. It was around 8:30pm or so when the mood for this project changed again. We just crossed some invisible line between excitement and frustration. It’s is totally unfair to the contractors because we are still in their estimated window of how long it would take to finish everything. It doesn’t matter. It’s all just stress now, no more excitement.

The tile guy is coming back today. The plumber is coming too. It’s 9:26am and we haven’t heard from either of them yet, but we aren’t expecting to until after 10:00. IKEA was just here picking up some of the things we need to return to them. There is a mountain more stuff that needs to be returned. We aren’t sure if we can get them to come back or not. I expect we’ll be driving down there one of these days soon. We also need to book a junk pick up because there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be removed still. We also need to clean off all of the dust that is covering everything before we use anything in our new kitchen.

I’m stressing out. We’re stressing out. It’s starting to be difficult.

I went to Home Depot this morning to pick up some stuff for the tile guy. Pics from the drive home… because.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/04/the-mood-has-changed/

#design #homeImprovement #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #iphoneography #kitchen #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #photography #remodeling #renovation