Smart for Summer; Making your home smarter this summer

how come I never get to pose for pictures with sledgehammers?

Look for fast-growing varieties to get your trees to fill in quickly and get the savings started!We have deciduous trees all around our house and we really notice how much they affect the temperature indoors.

Fall is the perfect time to get planting!Do you have a mountain of disorganized lego at your house?Forget about all of those complicated, expensive and time-consuming lego storage solutions you’ve seen and given up on and just use cheapo clear storage bins instead.So much easier for kids to see everything and it’s a simple enough system that they might even put the legos away on their own!OK, let me just start out by saying that if I was in charge of this chalkboard project, then I absolutely would have gone ahead and done a shoddy job of it.

I ended up asking Chris to make this for Kennedy’s room though, so of course he went and turned a quick little project into a whole.I usually get pretty annoyed when this happens (and it always happens), but this time the extra effort was definitely worth it.

I love how this chalkboard turned out!.

If you’ve been thinking about building yourself a custom-sized chalkboard, why not go ahead and make something that’s going to look great and really last?Do a little wipe here and there.

Put things where you want them.Your fridge is done!.

So this is what you’re saying now: “But wait… Courtenay.. um.. my fridge still isn’t sparkly clean.And yours isn’t either to tell you the truth.