Two things, many of us have nosy neighbors…..
and have need for a patio space that is functional! Well, that was the case for me. So I planned out a design and created a modern outdoor space that addressed both problems! Check it out…
Video for inspiration and ideas!
Have you ever looked up at your
shower head and noticed a bunch of the nozzles aren’t working? I (Steph) installed a new shower head in 2013 when I moved into my house, and haven’t thought about it since. Over time I have noticed the water seemed to be coming out harder and was spraying in different directions. It also didn’t have the ‘rain’ effect it once did. I decided it was time to try to clean it! Here’s what I did.
Watch the video
I’ve always loved the look of lockers,
but have never been lucky enough to find a set that was in good condition and reasonably priced. The ones I am able to find are either the wrong size, too rusted or too expensive. So, I decided to improvise and make my own lockers using large wood crates.
Find the full step by step tutorial HERE!
Our neighborhood is situated on a hill,
so we get the pleasantness of having a huge house peering into our backyard. Even if a fence were up, the house is high enough that our neighbors would see right into our backyard. So, after years off feeling a lack of privacy when hanging out on our porch, I finally came up with an idea! A cute little privacy screen that resembles the look of a pergola.
This project is my absolute favorite thing
my husband and I have ever created! It’s the absolute focal point of our entire downstairs, and it never fails that someone asks about it every time they come to our house!
It’s much simpler to create than it may look, and we created it from absolutely nothing! The full tutorial is quite involved, so I’ll give the highlights here, but you can click over to my blog to see all of the details.
Let’s get to the explanation.
To make this project, you’ll need:
– 1 6-foot 1X12 board
– Stain in your favorite shade
– 80 globe light bulbs
– 8 light sockets (we used these)
– Approximately 24 feet of braided electrical wire (like so)
– 12-feet of 1 electrical conduit
– 72 3/4 knock-out seals
– Approximately 175 feet of braided rope
– Silver spray paint
Start by cutting your board down to the desired length (ours is 5 feet long) and marking where you want your lights to go. This is an imprecise process, and involves a lot of trial and error – full details of how we did this can be found on the blog post.
Next, we built and stained the box that our lights would hang down from. The sizing all depends on your room and how large you want the fixture to be!
We built faux light sockets out of electrical conduit for all of the light bulbs that weren’t going to be functioning (we have 80 light bulbs in the fixture, but only 8 of them actually work). See the blog post for details on how these were created, but we used electrical conduit and knock-out seals to create them.