EST. 1959
EST. 1959
Our home maintenance is the day chore of taking care of your house. DIY on cleaning tips, simple repairs and all around maintenance of the house.
As we continue to document the restoration of our home, we constantly discover new thinks like this one today – how to clean mid-century brass lights. It’s not exactly at the top of the to-do list, however we are working on the deck area and it was one of the eye sores. Also not 100% …
This weekend we had a small task to spruce up our carport that we will share with you on how you can clean and paint a cement floor in one day. If you have even cleaned and painted cement / concrete floor you know it can be a headache. Hopefully this shortcut will cut down …
Knowing how to build a Farm House style Deck Gate that lasts, does not sag or close properly is something I am sure (If you found our website) close to your heart. Many of the designs today, look simple and clean but lack strength. Typical designs don’t take into account two factors. 1. Strength over …
Build a Strong Farm House Style Deck Gate (Plan and Guide) Read More »
Did you know that your electric company may offer a home energy assessment for free that could help save you Thousands of Dollars? I have gotten notices from Duke Energy for some time asking me if I would like a home Energy Assessment. They either deployed some type of AI (artificial intelligence) or black magic …
A Free Home Energy Assessment to SAVE You Thousands Of Dollars! Read More »
We had 3 flood lights installed about 100 feet up in our Beechwood trees that were installed by the previous owners. They were focused to light up the deck and house vs. being Landscape lighting. However, we wanted to light up our AMAZING Beechwood trees and that is the purpose of this blog post. I …
Make a big impact with Landscape Lighting for your House, Bushes or Trees Read More »
There is nothing like having a door that won’t close properly. It leaves you with an unfinished feeling that will nag you until you resolve the problem. When we first moved in, our bedroom door had this issue. It would not close all the way and got hung at the top and one small location …
Do you have a brick chimney? The Chimney cap is one of the most important elements of your Chimney. See how..
One of the quests we had, was to replace the staircase runner when we bought this house. Last summer we replaced the carpet in the lower bedroom that we use as a den / guest bedroom. It was replaced with a grey patterned (physical indention) carpet. We elected at the time to not replace the …
New Staircase Runner – Can You Use a Rug instead of Carpet? Read More »
Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would be the owner of a Hill Cart, aka Funicular and aka Trolley… A word/phrase that never crossed my mind. In fact, when we bought this house, our Hill Cart was not even on the list of things on the property. It came as …
The temperature has started to turn chilly in the past couple of weeks and our bedrooms prefab fireplace will be getting fired up soon. In a previous post here: we finished working on our fireplace in our living room and it has been working out great! However, the fireplace in our master bedroom will need …
