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Our home maintenance section of our blog is the day to day chore of taking care of our house. DIY on cleaning tips, repairs and all around maintenance to keep it in working order.
This weekend we had a small task to spruce up our carport that we will share with you how to 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 on the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …