Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Corner What to do

Right now I am trying to see what to do about this area right at the corner of the house. I'm not sure it would look better with a big whiskey barrel planter and have flower in it, put a bush/hedge, or to ground up the area and have a mulch bed type of area with flowers.

Oh yeah the screen isn't their now, that was just to paint the windows.



Whiskey Barrel


Bush (maybe not just like this, but maybe a idea)


Paves to make a flower bed for mulch





Here is a couple of quick drawing from microsoft paint just to give a idea of what I am talking about. They are bad drawings but just an idea.

EUONYMUS japonicus 'Albo marginatus' (http://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=1826) type of bush and maybe some hostas around the front


1 bush, maybe 2 tulips (or a group together) on each ends, and some small flowers between the tulips.


1 big purple color plant, then some medium yellowish (daisy's or so), and then maybe some some ground covering plants like creeping jenny around the bottom.

Monday, May 11, 2009

New Bathroom Cabinet

My bathroom is small and the closet in it isn't the best. It has plenty of room for towels and things like that, but not really set up for your normal stuff like tooth brush, shaving cream, etc... So I went out and bought a storage shelve/cabinet. I looked around at different styles from hanging on the wall to standing on the ground and I ended up getting one that hangs on the wall. I think it looks better. I also picked out one that was white because I think it looks better in my bathroom then other small colors (chrome and darker wood colors).

Before


Before


After


After

Changed out Thermostat

To help in utility bills I upgraded my thermostat from a old simple one to a new programmable one. That way I'm not cooling or heating the house when I'm not their and it also looks better.

Old Thermostat


New Thermostat