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Getting Ready for Summer Entertaining: Spruce Up Your Outdoor Patio
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DIY: Build Your Own Raised Beds
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Recycled Painting Project: Repainting and Stenciling an Old Dresser
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Starting Seeds
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New Seat Covers in 3 Simple Steps
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7 Great Reasons to Start Your Own Vegetable Garden
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My Indoor Plant Laboratory
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Cooking with Kale
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Fireplace Accent & Condo Painting in Chicago
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It’s the Holiday Season!
Getting Ready for Summer Entertaining: Spruce Up Your Outdoor Patio
Spring is finally here! That means it’s the perfect time to start thinking about barbecues and summer entertaining outdoors. Here are a few key ways you can spruce up your backyard patio so that you’ll be ready for your first BBQ in no time. I found this helpful article on Houzz (while you’re there, check out my new professional Houzz [...]
Read MoreDIY: Build Your Own Raised Beds
This year, I am embarking on another new adventure with my church’s new vegetable garden ministry! We aim to grow fruits and vegetables in our backyard to donate to local food banks and/or local needy families in the area. We are just getting started, but I am already learning a lot. Since we found out that [...]
Read MoreRecycled Painting Project: Repainting and Stenciling an Old Dresser
Every now and then, I like to give my creative muscle a little extra workout in designing or refinishing furniture, testing out new techniques or trying out different tools/products. (Check out my new dining room chair covers here.) Recently, we’ve landed upon some of our relatives’ old furniture and I’ve been dying to try something new with [...]
Read MoreStarting Seeds
container garden for a client It’s hard to start thinking about Spring with so much snow outside (but how can you not with the promise of such beautiful flowers as above). If you’re planting heirloom seeds (which take a little longer to germinate), it’s just about time. And if you’re using other seeds, it will be [...]
Read MoreNew Seat Covers in 3 Simple Steps
I bought this cute retro cloth off of Etsy because I just had to incorporate it into my home somewhere. A little while later – new chair covers! The material is perfect as it’s durable and won’t wear from frequent use. I bought it from Jodi Walter Jones’s Etsy shop, Sew Fine Fabrics and she made it [...]
Read More7 Great Reasons to Start Your Own Vegetable Garden
Having your own garden can give you much more than just a few extra tomatoes and cucumbers to share with your neighbors. It can better MANY aspects of your life – including your finances, family relationships and of course, your health! Easy to say, but still wondering how this is possible? Here you go! Easy access [...]
Read MoreMy Indoor Plant Laboratory
Experimenting is one of the things I love most about growing plants indoors. Now that it’s cold outside, you can have lots of fun trying new things with your plants indoors. I have SO many plants in my indoor plant lab (aka. dining room to most ) that we literally have no space to eat! [...]
Read MoreCooking with Kale
Photo Credit: http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn80/levi_spicoli/kale.jpg If you want to sneak some vitamin-rich kale into your child’s diet without them knowing, this is the recipe for you! Kale, known as the “Queen of Greens”, is one of the healthiest vegetables on the planet. Just one cup of this stuff gives you 36 calories, 5 grams of fiber, 15% [...]
Read MoreFireplace Accent & Condo Painting in Chicago
Happy New Year! We ended 2012 with a fun painting project using Behr paint. Check out the pictures below and let us know what you think! We love how the fireplace is now the focal point of the living room and brings a pop of color (Behr’s Sequoia) that complements her existing furniture well. It’s amazing how [...]
Read MoreIt’s the Holiday Season!
Well a-whoop-dee-do and dickory-dock, and don’t forget … to get your house ready! Okay, maybe those weren’t Andy Williams’s exact lyrics, but that doesn’t make them any less true. If you’re starting to feel a little more anxiety than excitement about the impending season of get-togethers with loved ones, 4 Seasons Painting & Landscaping may have the [...]
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