Romance Novel Author - Lifestyle Blog: Dagmar's Home
Have you dreamed about having a she shed or a guest house? Make that dream a reality!
You could hire a company to build you one, or you can find affordable DIY she shed kits online on Amazon and other sites. This post is full of many different she shed options.
Making something out of upcycled pallets is all the rage. In this post, I’ll show you how I used four pallets to make a DIY pallet deck in just minutes.
Anyone can make a pallet deck — you can usually get pallets for free since people always want to get rid of them. I’m also giving away all my tricks of how I paid very little for the chairs, the table, and the umbrella.
I did this a few years ago, our backyard looks a lot nicer by now, but here is what our first little deck looked like.
If you have been on Pinterest in the last few years, or read DIY blogs, you have seen how popular DIY pallet projects are.
People make furniture out of pallet wood, or signs, or huge American flags. I wrote a whole post about that:
DIY Beds and Other Things You Can Make Out of Pallets
We inherited some pallets when we bought our house, and we got more when we got stones delivered for our stone driveway.
My ex-husband wanted to get rid of the pallets, but I had other plans for them.
Meet my DIY pallet deck.
Last summer, it looked like this:
To install lattice around your porch or house is a super easy and inexpensive way to upgrade your home!
I’ve been on a roll about improving our porch.
First came the DIY porch curtains, and a while ago I tackled replacing the lattice on the bottom of the porch.
This is my kind of DIY project because
Our house is built on pillars, so we have this big space between the porch and the ground.
This is what the bottom of the porch looked like after I added some plants. [Read more…]
Easter is coming up soon! Coloring Easter eggs naturally is a lot of fun and results in beautiful, pastel colors. Have you ever tried it?
In my opinion, natural dyes for Easter eggs from fresh vegetables and spices are so much prettier than store-bought, fake colors.
I’ll also teach you how to make easy, edible alien eggs in this post. The kids will love those!
Spring is here, and I’m excited to decorate and get ready for Easter.
I cringe at the sight of bright food dyes probably more than most people because I grew up in Germany without them. You won’t find much food coloring in Germany — I think they don’t allow it in food.
Food dyes not only make food look unnaturally and unnecessarily colorful, they are plain unhealthy.
Food dyes have been linked to cancer, and hyperactivity, plus more and more kids are allergic to food colors.
I try to not buy anything with food coloring, and I was the mom who scraped off the blue frosting from the birthday cake when my son went to parties when he was little. [Read more…]
