Our Home from Scratch
We are Lisa and John and we run a home DIY blog. In addition to our projects, we also share our adventures in cooking, baking and whatever else comes along.
Building a Garage Shoe Organizer: Part 1
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 October 2012
Authors: John
Ahh, back to my wheelhouse. Carpentry. It’s been a while since I worked on anything substantial. We’ve been talking for sometime now about adding some sort of shoe organization system to the garage to get all of our shoes off the floor. I’ve had a basic idea of what I thought the shoe rack would look like and wha...
Garage Organization: The Before
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- Published on Sunday, 07 October 2012
Authors: John
Happy Columbus Day!! Or as my Italian wife calls it, “better than St. Patrick’s Day.” Today we’re enjoying a day off from work together and will be getting some much needed errands done. I’d really like to get cracking on a couple quick projects this week to keep me busy (or busier) in between car re...
All About Nail Guns
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 October 2012
Authors: John
If you can’t tell, the whole home project thing is going a bit slowly at the moment. We do have a couple home improvement tricks up our sleeve yet, so don’t go anywhere! In the meantime, I thought I’d continue where I left off with our air compressor post last week. This time I thought I’d discuss air...
Headlight Restoration
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- Published on Sunday, 30 September 2012
Authors: John
Hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend! Lisa and I caught up with some old friends and spent a good amount of time with both of our families. Overall a great weekend. I was also able to squeeze a couple hours of car work to do a 3M headlight restoration kit on our Jeep.
I’ve been meaning to try this restoration process on my...
What You Need to Know About Air Compressors
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- Published on Thursday, 27 September 2012
Authors: John
Hope everyone is having a good week. With these days getting shorter, it’s becoming harder and harder to get work done outside. It’s tough to stay motivated. There are still a few outdoor tasks I’d like to take care of before it gets too cold.
One of the car related projects I’m going to try to knock out this...
Our Simple Fall Decor
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- Published on Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Authors: Lisa
Hey everybody! Hope you’re enjoying the cool Fall weather we’ve been having recently. It really puts me in the mood to decorate for Fall and buy more pumpkins!… and apple cider donuts!! This year we’re keeping our home’s fall themed decor simple by reusing some of the decorations we had up last year an...
New Season, New Series and New Brakes
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- Published on Sunday, 23 September 2012
Authors: John
What I’ve Learned About Flower Beds
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Authors: John
Instead of bringing you a post on some of our latest outside work as I’d planned, I’m forced to goto Option B and discuss something else. I was hoping to come home from work and snap some quality photos of our mums, and the finished front door paint. However, due to some pretty nasty weather, those pictures will have to...
DIY Fall Wreath
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- Published on Sunday, 16 September 2012
Authors: Lisa
Hi kids! We hope you had a great weekend – we sure did. We kept the projects minimal and got to spend some great family time together. I am not sure about you guys, but the weather here has been beautiful! Fall is definitely in the air and we are so happy about it!
One of the projects I was able to was able to wrap up this...
Our Fall To-Do List
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Authors: John
Hey everybody! Another busy work week here for us means less project doing and more project planning. Since we’re more or less into the whole Fall thing by now (I’m going along with it, although my feet are still in the beach sand), it’s time to post about all of our Fall projects. What better way to kick off Fall...
