Our Pocono A-Frame: The Beginning Two years ago we bought an old A-frame cabin in the Pocono Mountains as a potential winter retreat for our family. Built in 1970, it hadn’t seen many updates since—aside from a quirky duck-patterned wallpaper border straight out of the ’80s. The cabin came “fully furnished” which was code for
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This Spring we finally made the investment in window awnings for our home. With a southern exposure and no shade trees, the sun beats on the front and east side of our old 1940’s Jersey shore cape style house. When we bought this house in 2020, we found remnants of the original dark green awnings
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Recently, I added house numbers to an old oar that we positioned near the back door of our coastal home. Around here, UPS and Fedex deliver from an alley that runs behind the houses so I wanted to make it a little easier for them to find us! I’ve used this easy method many times
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This is a quick and easy project when your entry needs a little spruce up! I made one of these striped doormats a few years ago using spray paint which you can read about here. This time, I used leftover exterior paint and a brush and actually found it to work better. I started with
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Our daughter’s graduation party recently motivated us to work on our back yard and patio area. Because the yard slopes off, the first floor of our home is elevated in the back of the house. Underneath there is a covered patio area which, until now, was a network of cobwebs, grass clippings and dirt.
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Last weekend we turned our attention to the outside of the beach house. We are still finishing up the fence but I thought I would share our progress so far. This is what we started with: We then painted the house gray and the trim white, added blue shutters, window boxes and a little striped valance.
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When it comes to Christmas wreaths and garlands, I prefer the real thing. But real evergreen wreaths and garlands that are packed full with a variety of greens are hard to find and very pricey. Likewise, starting from scratch and making my own is a time consuming process and trying to find large quantities of
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I love fall and recently spent a little time adding a few fall touches to my front porch. If you follow our blog, then you know that one of my go to craft projects is hand painting numbers on just about anything. I have done it on the back door of our previous house: On
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This weekend, my daughter helped me with a fun little project of painting house numbers on the mailbox of the Jersey shore house – a small detail but when viewed together with other small details, they begin to make a big impact. We showed how to do this simply and inexpensively in an earlier post here.
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When we are working on the Jersey shore house, I love taking a short ride over to the Bayhead area where there are so many gorgeous homes on the beach and on the bay. They often provide the inspiration for some of the ideas we are trying out on our project. For instance, I
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