This post is chock full of backyard fire pit project photos! Check out our sweet fire pit area, retaining wall-like steps, hammock swinging spaces, and ambient strung garden lights. We foresee chill-time in the forecast for years to come! The…
Curb Appeal: From Builder’s Blah to Custom Charmer
Project Curb Appeal at the Forest House is finally complete! Whew! Over the past 15 months, we have transformed what was once boring, builder’s-grade, and mismatched into a clean, modern, and customized charmer. Here are loads of pics to show…
Growing Mushrooms, Part II
Welcome to Part 2 of the growing mushrooms in your backyard weekend project! As we discussed in Part 1 of this post, the cut logs sat outside for two weeks. This allowed time for any anti-fungal properties to dissipate. Now,…
Growing Mushrooms, Part I
It’s been a long, cold winter. To keep the winter blues at bay, we started planning our new garden space at the Forest House. It’s taken us a little bit to decide how to best utilize the almost 2 acre…
Make Me All Landscaped & Pretty!
The landscaping at the little yellow “Forest” house was overgrown and neglected. The problem stemmed from the aging, builder-installed landscaping that needed to be tamed (and partially removed). But also, we knew zero about lawns and plants outside of Florida….
Modernizing the Tired Fence
We hope everyone, especially everyone in Florida, reads this post and takes action. We hope this inexpensive transformation will inspire you to get you out there in your backyards fixing your neglected fences! Tired and rotting fences, like the one…
Raised Garden Beds
Reclaiming a space, in what was previously a forgotten strip of yard between the pool cage and the fence, we planted raised garden beds at the Palms House. This posts highlights the pitfalls and plentiful harvests from our zone 9…
Muscadine Vineyard
After we finished modernizing the fence, we decided to make better use of the small yard space between the pool and the fence. We wanted all three areas around the pool to have a purpose. We felt it was important…
