Home Improvements

We got inspired in August to make some minor home and yard improvements.  We added decorations to the patio/deck area and the kitchen; and we did some planting outside in the yard.

The kitchen now has a sunflower theme which I really like.  We got a variety of vases, pots, bottles to decorate the cabinet tops and the counter.  Then we placed artificial sunflowers, leaves, twigs, and other flowers in them.  I’m really pleased with the result.  The kitchen is brighter and more cheerful.  On a return trip from California recently, we  purchased a couple of carved wooden pine trees from a quaint restaurant in southern Oregon.  They now decorate the deck/patio wall.  Going for a foresty/woodsy feel there.

We have done a lot of planting in the front and back yard.  In the front yard we planted a dwarf pine, several mum plants, a hydrangea, and foxglove.  I so love that we can grow such a wide variety of beautiful flowers here.  In the back yard we planted several aborviates, one “Dick Clark” red rose bush, one yellow rose vine, a pine tree, an evergreen bush, and a magnolia tree.  When all these plants grow up, the yard will look awesome.  The magnolia tree is about 8′ tall now.  It is evergreen so it will look nice year-round; and in the spring/summer it will get these huge awesome white blossoms.

You can see pictures of these home improvements by clicking here.