Tips & Tricks

Easily make a beautiful DIY chandelier for your garden! This post will show you how to make eco-friendly hanging solar lights to enjoy in your own backyard outdoor living space. If you want to add a little ambiance and whimsy to your garden area, I have a fun and easy DIY chandelier project for you […]

I have been wanting some diy barn doors in my kitchen for a long, long time. When I searched online for hardware, I found that it is way out of my price range. Then I saw The Accent Piece used hardware from Tractor Supply. I decided even though it was very expensive, it was worth […]

I don’t think we’ve ever been more excited to release a Gardening / DIY project than we are with today’s 5 Gallon Bucket Planter Boxes. Especially knowing it all stemmed from a reader’s suggestion! The planter boxes really are an amazing solution for so many problems gardeners face. As you will see in the video […]

Survival gardening is a term that’s thrown around quite a bit these days, both by preparedness gurus and even everyday gardeners. The theory is, with a shovel and the right backpack full of seeds, anyone can survive the next ‘zombie apocalypse.’  But it’s not that simple… We grow a good bit of our own food […]

Need extra space? Nowadays, you can pretty much find everything you’d possibly ever want or need on Amazon, as well as things you never knew existed (from live ladybugs, to real human finger bones, and even roast beef bath soak! ). But did you know that you can even buy an entire Backyard Guest House […]

As far as electric vehicles go, electric bicycles are famously energy-efficient. Most can easily travel 100 miles (160 km) on around $1 of electricity. But what if instead of paying for that electricity, you could capture it from the sun instead? That’s exactly what Richard Drumm did when he built a simple DIY electric bicycle […]

Oh my goodness! This little upcycled planter chicken is absolutely adorable! What a perfect little Easter decoration to make with your kids. Seriously, this is so easy and turns out just perfect. A bit of paint, a small flower pot, a Styrofoam ball, and you have a cute little chick to add to your Easter […]

Making homemade organic liquid fertilizer is surprisingly easy to do, and it only uses three ingredients: water, over-ripe bananas, and brown sugar. Bananas and their peel contain many , including nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. This can result in roses and other flowering plants producing more prominent, more beautiful blooms when they absorb this fertilizer. As […]

The first spring flowers will be greeting the eye any day now. There will be chionodoxas, snowdrops, scillas, narcissus, hyacinths, tulips and other spring flowers. Snow has receded leaving a reservoir of moisture in the ground. All at once we find there are so many things to do. Dead grass and fallen leaves should be […]

Trying to make your living room look like a million bucks (for way, way less) might sound like a tall order. But for our design network? Piece of cake. After all, it doesn’t take a full renovation budget and weeks of work to give your living room a few key upgrades. In fact, you can […]