Backyard Garden – Beginning of June

June 1, 2011

Here are our veggies as of June 1, 2011: Onions: Lettuce: New lettuce coming up: Deer Tongue lettuce: Lettuce Mix: Peas: Peas and beans behind them: Bush peas: Beans finally coming up for the summertime: Taters and their awesome homemade wall:   Baby tomato plants: Buran Pepper Plant: Cucumbers: Cucs with their pretty tendrils: And [...]

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Backyard Garden – Mid-May

May 20, 2011

Last time you saw our garden, it was thriving in it’s springtime glory.  Then a giant hail storm hit Knoxville and most of the vegetables were smashed to the ground.  Our peas had grown about knee-high pre-storm and post-storm, they were pancaked to the ground.  To try and revitalize them, we mounded tons of dirt [...]

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Before-and-After Photos – Coker Renovation

May 10, 2011

  8 weeks later and…… we’re FINISHED!!!!  This home went much quicker and smoother since we had a little experience under our belt.  Check out the before-and-after photos: This is what the front of the home looked like before: Aftera a lot of cleaning, power-washing, bleaching, sanding, and painting, this is what it looks like [...]

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Levenson Organic Backyard Garden

April 25, 2011

Every year, Ryan and I plant a backyard vegetable garden.  This will be our fourth year garden and we chose to use raised beds for all of our veggies.  That way, the plants can drain well and we have natural walkways.  So far, we’ve been able to go chemical-free in our garden, but we do always [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 8

April 25, 2011

This week, we painted the exterior of the home!  It went from looking like this: To this: How do you like the green??

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 7

March 31, 2011

This week, the home’s interior was painted. We went with Mindful Gray by Sherwin Williams for all the bedrooms, halls, living room, dining room, and kitchen.  We thought the gray would look very pretty with the hardwood floors and white trim. As you enter the home, the living room with the front bedroom to the [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 6

March 31, 2011

This week the kitchen and bathroom flooring was installed.  Since this house will be a rental and not a re-sale, we chose to put down vinyl flooring in the kitchen and bathrooms.  Vinyl will hold up wonderfully for a long time and is a very economical choice for rentals.  If a tenant scrapes up the [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 5

March 25, 2011

This week was the week of the painting fiasco!  We originally picked a dark gray (Mindful Gray – Sherwin Williams) for every room except for the bathrooms, which would be a spa-like blue. Everyone assured me that the gray was NOT too dark of a color (including the painter)!  I told the painter that EVERY room except [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 4

March 20, 2011

During Week 4 of the Coker house renovations, they finished hanging all the drywall, mudded, and sanded the walls. They also pulled up all the carpeting and sanded the original hardwoods. Here is what you see upon entering the home: And here is the view looking towards the front door: Here is the formal dining [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 3

March 14, 2011

In Week 3 of the Coker House Renovations, they started to hang drywall and began work on the bathrooms.  Here is the new hallway that was constructed to lead to the back bedroom (rather than walking through the middle bedroom to access it) and to the new bathroom: Here is the new kitchen layout with [...]

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