OurFixitUpLife

In OurFixitUpLife, Mark and Theresa are sharing the DIY projects they are working on at home, for clients, and for TV shows and magazines.
A meditation space inspires and soothes with hues of blue and gold

Creating this meditation space required the perfect paint color and intentional object placement.

I love fun Valentine’s Day mailbox ideas, especially when they’re easy + inexpensive like this Poké Ball.     While my third grader Jack’s class is making…

I made fun and festive little Galentine’s gifts with champagne and hearts for my friends.

Make a snowflake holiday card display with pallet wood and paint
MyFixitUpLife Krylon Pallet December Holiday Snowflake Pallet DIY after decorated

This year I was inspired to make a new holiday card display in our family’s ‘formal farmhouse’ style. I chose upcycling pallet wood and a few fun paint colors

We used wood from a Minwax wood staining workshop to make a tray for the holidays.

We were lucky to spend a few hours with the superhero of staining, Bruce Johnson from Minwax at Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Philadelphia. What’s…

Sometimes people who are rippin’ smart bother me, like my friend who used a 36-volt brushless Makita angle grinder to cut up a 1971 Volkswagon…

If there’s one thing I hope you get for your next DIY project out of this video it’s this: Elect yourself Facilities Manager of your…

A portable generator is power—that means normalcy, heat, hot showers, safety—when there is none. It’s real payback: Connecting people and power cords. Note: We worked with…

My own memories of living through several terrible storms wasn’t enough to push me to buy a portable generator. So what tipped the scale? Simple…

Fred is our new DIY Halloween Spider. We made him from soldered copper pipe and he is now an 8-legged part of the family. Want…