A Year of Backyard Growth
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The thrill of renovating outdoor spaces is they always get better with age. We overhauled our backyard last year and the plant growth during this last trip around the sun is wild! Get ready for lots o’ photos.
Read MoreOur Backyard Reveal! + Lots of Before & Afters
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Our backyard is complete!! Before, it was lackluster, unusable, and dangerous. Now, it’s full of fruit trees, veggie beds, flowers, and spaces for play, dining, and lounging. It’s perfect!
Read MoreMy Garden Is Featured in This Month's Better Homes & Gardens Magazine!
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Hey so, you know that major magazine? The one that features all things homes and gardens? You know the one. Well, I wrote an article all about my front yard garden in this month’s issue!
Read MoreI Sealed My Outdoor Teak Table With an Environmentally Friendly (And Long-Lasting!) Oil
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We recently added a big teak table to our backyard and it’s the perfect companion to our (soon-to-be) completed kitchen. The solid teak table arrived un-treated which was already gorgeous, but I wanted to give it even more oomph. I hunted high and low for an environmentally friendly oil that’s free of petrochemicals, and I found one!
Read MoreHow To Prevent and Manage Mosquitos Safely and Naturally
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I’m one of those people that gets devoured by mosquitos. My mom always told me that it’s because I’m “so sweet” which is cute and nice, but jeez do I hate those pesky creatures. Last year, we had issues with excessive mosquitos so I called in support from the county’s vector control program. I learned a few things straight from an expert, then I’ve applied them for the past year. Now, I’m here to report to you the key takeaways.
Read MoreThe Whys, Whats, and Hows of Landscape Lighting
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I’ve been sharing oodles of front yard and landscape posts (get ‘em all here) and the icing on the landscape cake is always lighting. I installed the lights only a couple of weeks ago and it’s amazing how much the space has transformed in the evenings. In typical fashion, I thought long and hard about lighting, so here’s the full scoop on making our front yard garden just as pretty at night as it is during the day.
Read MoreThe Plant Guide for our Southern California Low Water Front Yard Garden
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The post so so SO many of you have been asking for! A full plant guide of the each of the flora in my front yard. The collection includes a mix of California natives, a few Australian natives that thrive in our similar climate, but all with an emphasis on low water that are beautiful and mostly evergreen.
Read MoreInstallation of the Front Yard Garden
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I’ve made it to the garden installation story, after many other posts all about prepping and planning - here we are! While I'm here to share the installation of the plantings and irrigation, this isn’t going to be a DIY tutorial post as much as a story of what happened and a bunch of photos of the process.
Read MoreThe Goals for My Front Yard Garden - For the Love of Water, Food, Bees, and Flowers
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I have lots of front yard gardening posts to share with you so I’m breaking them up into a few pieces. In this one, I want to share with you the goals for our front yard landscape. A a serial over-thinker, you can bet that I had multiple goals that I thought long and hard about when planning what to plant to replace our pathetic front yard. From trying to save the planet to wanting to enjoy all the pretty things, here are my garden goals.
Read MoreRepairing the Stucco on the Outside of the House
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Once we removed the existing plantings and regraded our dirt pile, it became obvious that there was some stucco repair to be done. I’m here to share what I did, how I did it, and give you some satisfying before and afters to enjoy.
Read MoreHow to Train Vines to Climb a Fence + A Video
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A couple of weeks ago I shared how I refreshed a tired fence, and now I’m back to tell you how I covered up the refinished fence with vines and flowers. I love foliage and will happily plant a tree or bush or shrub or vine anywhere and everywhere outside. So, while I covered up my freshly stained fence, I’m v pleased with my wall of leaves and flowers.
Read MoreHow I Refreshed a Tired Fence
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It’s spring which is a great time for outdoor projects big and small. A quick, effective, and high-impact upgrade is a refreshed fence and some florals, so I’ve got both for you.
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With an additional family member, we want to shuffle the rooms of our 3-bedroom house around. The one off the living room was being used as my home office, so now it’s time to convert it into an actual bedroom. The initial thought was to give this room to baby sister and keep Margot in her room. But we ultimately decided to put the baby in the room designed to be a nursery, then convert the home office into a space designed for a bigger kid. Plus, the office has more windows, and is right off the living room (Margot’s playroom) so it’s better suited for all the daytime play, whereas the single-window nursery is cozier for lots of daytime naps.