• Laundry Room

    What are Dryer Balls and What Do They Do?

    Dryer balls are small to medium-sized balls, typically made from wool or plastic, designed to help aerate your laundry, allowing hot air to circulate more efficiently between clothes. This not only helps your laundry dry faster but also reduces energy consumption, making it an eco-friendly addition to your home.

  • Building Tips

    What Color to Paint or Stain Wood Beams on the Ceiling

    Have you ever walked into a room and felt an immediate sense of warmth, character, or sophistication? That feeling often stems from the architectural details that wood beams on a ceiling display. Whether reveling in the rustic beams of an old farmhouse or adding new ones to inject character into a modern space, picking the right shade for painting or staining wood beams on a ceiling can elevate your interior from merely pleasant to downright captivating. Let’s look at transforming your space into a haven of style and personality by choosing the perfect color to paint or stain your ceiling beams.

  • Kitchen

    How to Clean Kitchen Cabinets

    Keeping your kitchen cabinets clean doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Let’s get back to basics with a straightforward, no-frills guide on how to clean kitchen cabinets. This is about making them not just clean, but also keeping them in good shape for the long haul. Whether you’re dealing with a thin layer of flour from your baking endeavors or just the usual build-up from daily kitchen use, let’s tackle this together and make those cabinets sparkle again.

  • Landscaping

    All About Compact Japanese Holly

    A Compact Japanise Holly is an ornamental evergreen shrub that is lush and very beautiful! In fact, we fell so in love with them last week, we added six of them around our pool area. They look a lot like boxwoods and are wonderful either mixed in with other shrubs, used as a hedge, or even planted in a pot or container.

  • Landscaping

    How to Grow and Care for Skip Laurel Shrubs

    We recently planted schip laurels around our pool area to create a hedge. The schip laurel is low-maintenance and it grows under a variety of different conditions. It’s a beautiful shrub and it was a breeze to plant once we decided where we wanted it to go. We are really loving the look and feel like they’ve made a great addition to our landscaping. Schip laurels are also known as skip laurels or schipka laurels.