Here's a post Trent wanted me to do over a month ago and I forgot... oops. I'm trying to get caught up before we leave for our cruise!
Trent had an idea for some flower boxes to hang off the deck rails. Of course in this house that means we're gonna build them ourselves and I'm proud to say I
pretty much built 2 of them on my own... with someone hovering right over my shoulder ;)
Even Jeryn wanted to help out her Tio Trent
Here's one of 'em that we painted yellow and planted wave petunias in.
There's the other 2 which we painted blue and orange. I LOVE them!
Another project has been some rock gardens in 3 of our corners in the yard. Trent said they are "wash out" areas?? And his work was gonna throw out all this rock they had tested so Trent thankfully "saved" hundreds of dollars of rock. Free=AWESOME.
Here is the biggest corner over a month ago. Since then perfectionist Trent took it all back out and we had to redo it. Yes, I said WE because I threw on my work gloves and even pitched in. Trent did like to point out that while I did wear my work gloves for safety (to my manicure haha) I was working barefoot which is not smart around rock evidently? I need to take another picture so the perfectionist doesn't get mad at me ;)
Next on the list was redoing our deck chairs. The chairs had seen better days. My parents bought me 2 of them in college and the the other 2 (which are perfect matches) we found curbside in our Olathe duplex that we lived in right after we got married. But don't you know spray paint fixes everything?! That's the before shot of 3 of the chairs... their 4th friend was already undergoing her makeover.
Shot of the action. We unscrewed the canvas back and seat before spraying away.
Ta-da! The after shot is MUCH better now that the chairs match the table. Now the only thing left to do on the deck is restaining this fall. Oh joy :)
Here is this year's flowers on the west side of the house. The big open area to the right of the air conditioner is where we planted 4 peony bulbs (my favorites!!) which won't come up until next year :(
East side of the house. Last year we planted the knock out roses and this year we added some hostas and ornamental grasses.
Front of the house flowers
That's it for the outside tour! At least until Trenton comes up with another project for us :)
Trent had an idea for some flower boxes to hang off the deck rails. Of course in this house that means we're gonna build them ourselves and I'm proud to say I pretty much built 2 of them on my own... with someone hovering right over my shoulder ;)
Even Jeryn wanted to help out her Tio Trent
Here's one of 'em that we painted yellow and planted wave petunias in.
There's the other 2 which we painted blue and orange. I LOVE them!
Another project has been some rock gardens in 3 of our corners in the yard. Trent said they are "wash out" areas?? And his work was gonna throw out all this rock they had tested so Trent thankfully "saved" hundreds of dollars of rock. Free=AWESOME.
Here is the biggest corner over a month ago. Since then perfectionist Trent took it all back out and we had to redo it. Yes, I said WE because I threw on my work gloves and even pitched in. Trent did like to point out that while I did wear my work gloves for safety (to my manicure haha) I was working barefoot which is not smart around rock evidently? I need to take another picture so the perfectionist doesn't get mad at me ;)
Next on the list was redoing our deck chairs. The chairs had seen better days. My parents bought me 2 of them in college and the the other 2 (which are perfect matches) we found curbside in our Olathe duplex that we lived in right after we got married. But don't you know spray paint fixes everything?! That's the before shot of 3 of the chairs... their 4th friend was already undergoing her makeover.
Shot of the action. We unscrewed the canvas back and seat before spraying away.
Ta-da! The after shot is MUCH better now that the chairs match the table. Now the only thing left to do on the deck is restaining this fall. Oh joy :)
Here is this year's flowers on the west side of the house. The big open area to the right of the air conditioner is where we planted 4 peony bulbs (my favorites!!) which won't come up until next year :(
East side of the house. Last year we planted the knock out roses and this year we added some hostas and ornamental grasses.
Front of the house flowers
That's it for the outside tour! At least until Trenton comes up with another project for us :)
Love the flower boxes...adorable curb appeal :)
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