How To Spread Mulch
I’ve been spending the last couple weekends creating some new landscaping around my house and one of the projects I’m dedicated to doing this year is properly mulching my flower beds and trees. In the...
View ArticleDo-It-Yourself Gutters: Vinyl vs. Aluminum
One of my home improvement projects this summer is to paint my house and while I’m doing that I figured I would also replace the old aluminum gutters that I currently have installed on my home. Gutters...
View ArticleImproving the Cooling Power of Your Central Air Conditioner
Now that we’re into some of the hottest days of the summer those of you with central air conditioners might be finding that on the really hot days your home isn’t staying as cool as it once did. Maybe...
View ArticlePaint Your House With These House Painting Tips
One of the many outdoor home improvement projects I’ve completed this summer is a complete painting of a my home’s exterior. If you hire a professional house painting company you can easily spend...
View ArticleMaking Sidewalk Art With A Power Washer
Today’s consumer power washers are good cleaning tools but you can also have some fun with them and add a decorative flair to your home. Just about any type of small to medium pressure washer should...
View ArticleControl Carpenter Bees With Copper Mesh
Carpenter bees are large bees that are often mistaken for bumble bees and are known for their destructive and annoying habit of burrowing into dead wood. For homeowners around the world this means that...
View ArticleHouse Numbers Plaque Review
This summer my wife and I spent a fair amount of time and energy on increasing the “curb appeal” of our home and the last official exterior home improvement we’re performed this year was purchasing one...
View ArticleWhat To Do About Brown Grass
Okay, what is the photo on the right? Is it a photo from Africa’s Serengeti National Park? It is the remains of a foolish attempt to grow a lawn in the Arizona Desert? Maybe it’s a farm that...
View ArticleHow To Install Vinyl Gutters
Last year I replaced most of my home’s old aluminum rain gutters with vinyl rain gutters (some people call them “plastic gutters”). My previous seamless aluminum gutters were at the end of their life,...
View ArticleThe Best Way To Get Rid of Dandelions
It wouldn’t be spring without the annual dandelion outbreak, turning green lawns and empty flower beds into seas of yellow and white flowers. Dandelions get a bad rap because they are one of the...
View ArticleCheap and Easy Rain Gutter Covers
The roof and gutters on my home are a little over ten years old, so it’s going to be time to have a new roof put on and all the gutters replaced in another year or two. In the meantime, however, I’ve...
View ArticleMy Ugly Backyard Can Be Seen From Outer Space
I have an ugly back yard. Really, really ugly. It’s about 75 feet wide and about 50 feet deep and I don’t think anyone has actually done anything positive to the backyard in a good ten years. The...
View ArticleHow To Build Your Own Dirt and Stone Screen Sifter…with Wheels!
As I’ve written before, one of the most offensive parts of my ugly backyard is the giant ring of stone and sand I have that has, overtime, become part of the dirt and ground of the yard. My goal for...
View ArticleQuick Railroad Tie Flower Beds – My Last Summer Outdoor Home Improvement Project
My son’s birthday is in late September and we always have a party with friends and family coming over to our house, so that’s a great motivator for my wife and I to complete any large home improvement...
View ArticleQuick Railroad Tie Flower Beds – My Last Summer Outdoor Home Improvement Project
My son’s birthday is in late September and we always have a party with friends and family coming over to our house, so that’s a great motivator for my wife and I to complete any large home improvement...
View ArticleSnowblower Tips and Tricks
When snow comes there are few gasoline powered tools that are as appreciated as a snowblower. Shoveling snow can be good exercise but it can also be too dangerous for some people and too difficult for...
View ArticleWhat To Do About Brown Grass
Okay, what is the photo on the right? Is it a photo from Africa’s Serengeti National Park? It is the remains of a foolish attempt to grow a lawn in the Arizona Desert? Maybe it’s a farm that...
View ArticleGazebo Design for Backyard That Will Inspire You
Nothing can compare a backyard which has a cozy spot to gather with friends and families. Backyard has been the choice of many people to be decorated. One of the choices to put something cozy in the...
View ArticleMinimalist Landscaping Designs Fresh Outside
Do you have free space outside the house? When you have a free space outside your house, you need to maximize it by applying minimalist landscaping designs fresh outside. If you have home landscaping...
View ArticleBeautiful Modern Courtyard Landscaping Ideas
Living in the modern home design sometimes doesn’t give you enough space to build your home yard which results your home just has courtyard. Easy, although it is a courtyard, you can still make it...
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