Home improvement – Rural Home Renovations

The Making of a Horse Barn

With all of the drainage issues resolved we were on to the next phase of the project. It was time to build the stalls. We started by determining the size of the stalls and planting posts where it made sense. The barn had some existing posts and we tried to utilize those as much asContinue reading “The Making of a Horse Barn”

Barn Makeover

To keep or not to keep that was the question… If there is one thing that we really enjoy, it is looking deep into a project and seeing the potential. But, there are times even we have to ask “Is it worth saving?”. That is what we had to ask ourselves when we looked atContinue reading “Barn Makeover”

Epic Fail Turned Epic

Have you ever started a project thinking, “this should not be to bad?” Only to find out that things don’t really go like you thought they should. Well, that is pretty much what happened to me as a small maintenance project turned into a total disaster! When we bought our home the one feature weContinue reading “Epic Fail Turned Epic”

Mud Room Makeover

We bought our new house back in June of 2019. When we were shopping for homes the existence of a mud room was a must! We did not have one in our previous house and after years of trying to work around it we finally just broke down and built an addition of a mudContinue reading “Mud Room Makeover”

Phase 2: Quarantine project

So here we are with a half done project of raised garden beds. We heard from several of our readers with some tips and tricks (we love the feedback!) so with super nice weather helping us out we have moved on to finishing our project. With the beds laid out the way we want themContinue reading “Phase 2: Quarantine project”

Quarantine Time Project

Back in January when we decided that we would start a blog there is no way we could have imagined that today we would be on a mandatory Stay at Home order due to the COVID-19 virus. Yet here we are, like the majority of the rest of the country, learning to be home schoolContinue reading “Quarantine Time Project”