Create a Backyard Sanctuary

Mark and Theresa take you inside Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s 200th episode where they built 7 houses in 7 days. Listen to a heartfelt tearful…

Green grass mix with shamrocks in my mind to inspire this little door decor that’s perfect for any spring day.

Personalizing my front door for the season or holiday is a favorite and easy way to share a smile with neighbors and friends. I’ve been…

  Ten-hut! It’s design time, kid-style. Deysi Melgar from PBS’s Design Squad Nation slingshots in to talk about, well, slingshots. And pasta cars, hover shoes and…

Our house has a side yard whose main feature used to be that it didn’t have any nice features (Figure 1). This tiny, unattractive bit…

Egg dying is a favorite annual tradition in my family. Dunking bright-white eggs into little bowls of color and then popping them out to reveal…

Phatso’s Bakery inspired what I call ‘Resort Whimsy’ design for the Food Network show ‘Save My Bakery.’ After talking with the owner for a while…

Compost bins are a perfect way to re-utilize all those kitchen and yard scraps for a new purpose, to help create a more gorgeous garden….

When it comes to above ground pools, most of them are round, which poses some challenges as most building materials aren’t round or easily made round.

We’re big fans of getting kids involved in any hands-on experience. From coloring and crafting to building and fixing, there’s so much more we can…

Who doesn’t have outdated furniture that has seen better days, like our nesting tables? And we’re guilty of storing away old paint in our basement, for way too many years. So when Meg Caswell shared a way to combine those two clutter piles into something we could actually use, and we’d love, we were in. She introduced us to one of her DIY decor obsessions during a MyFixitUpLife radio interview this past year: a grandmother’s paint additive.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to share their stories in the Real DIY Contest. The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association received some very…

If you love a warm light, you can be happy with LED light bulbs. Having a savvy shopper attitude is an essential when shopping for…

It doesn’t take much to inspire our kids to get moving. I was asked to post a family photo of us–or at least a photo…

Why build a cedar pergola? It’s easy to love your wood pergola when the sun is shining. But it’s extreme weather that tests a wood’s mettle.