We recently refinished our 50-year-old garage floor with Rustoleum’s RockSolid Polycuramine Garage Floor Coating kits and now we are experts. Riiight. Like most people, a DIY garage floor is, hopefully, a one time project. However, we did learn a few things that might help you if you decide to tackle this kind of project. If your garage is big enough, and you don’t have too much junk, you can do this in sections without having to move stuff out of the garage. We were lucky to have a garage that’s spacious enough that we could split this into three sections, move everything off of one section ..read more

If you’ve just decided to give yourself a new garage floor, congratulations and good luck. If you’re careful and follow the instructions, you’ll get a great-looking, long-lasting floor that your neighbors will envy. Part of the fun of a diy garage floor is choosing which product to use. We settled on Rust-Oleum’s RockSolid polycuramine, for reasons that we’ll explain in a different post. Here, we just want to give you a useful list of all the other stuff you might need before you begin. The RockSolid garage floor kits come with a several items that are necessary to do the job, including the 2 ..read more

Hey, DIY Warriors! Welcome to another Vag-tastic installment of what not to do and when not to do it. Ain’t this easy? Did you buy a Phalaenopsis orchid from TJ’s, HD or maybe Lowe’s? Or, the worst guilt, from a fancy-schmancy nursery for big bucks? Now 3 months later and you have no blooms left and a funky bare branch. This beauty stands next to our fireplace…check out our makeover here. Me too! And what would I do every time? Cut that funky bare branch off of course… This table is Japanese Cypress. It is all one piece. Spectacular craftmanship. Wrong-o! Oh, so very wrong-o. They send out br ..read more

We upcycled an old plywood toybox into a functional garden tool storage box with wood scraps and dollar-bin paint. The box features top plates with two hole sizes so you can easily see, store and access your common tools. The areas in between the plates provide ample space for large and bulky tools like a gardening pick. A great garden tool storage box makes outdoor chores a bit more enjoyable It’s always gratifying to rescue something old and neglected around the house. In this case, there’s a sentimental attachment too. The toybox was built and painted by our kid’s godmother more than a qua ..read more

This article may contain affiliate links, which help to support this site, at no cost to you. This wooden LED shelf was an afterthought. As in, I built it after spending way too much time thinking about the shelves for this closet. It’s astonishingly simple, and because I used scraps to make the oak shelf, the total cost was only about $40. The retro-look freezer, oak shelf and colored LED lighting turn this open closet into an attractive space in our rumpus room Originally, I planned for this space to be a bar/media closet in our game room. I wanted something to complement the design of our ..read more

Now you’re probably wondering, More? What the heck does Vag hafta’ say on this topic Again!? I mean she just went into length on planting and training prostrate rosemary on her ugly retaining wall… Back for more prostrate rosemary? Well, it’s Spring time, DIY Warriors! And, guess what? The new growth on your prostrate rosemary, aka, Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’, looks like squirrel tails in a high wind or that showdown between your doggie and the neighborhood skunk. Why is it growing upward? I mean, geez, “prostrate” means trailing downward last I heard… What goes up must come down…lik ..read more

This article may contain affiliate links, which help to support this site, at no cost to you. Hey, DIY Warriors! Welcome to another Vag-tastic installment on Manatee Pants. Got an ugly retaining wall? Here are some retaining wall ideas. From your couch to the Beyond… And away we go! Here is our 5′ tall concrete retaining wall which we have lovingly bedazzled with prostrate rosemary, aka, Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’. As always, let’s knock the pants off this manatee and get on to our next oh-so-fabulous DIY project to inspire you to live in the world you want. We wondered what are so ..read more

This natural cedar and lavender deodorant smells good all day and is made without the harmful metals used in commercial antiperspirants. I looked down at that last bit of bright blue antiperspirant while I gripped the pungent stick’s iconic red case. There were itching rashes under my arms to match and my white shirts were turning yellow. I was smelly and tired of spending money on the over-fragranced deodorants that left me uncomfortable and didn’t hold up to a day of heavy adventuring. There had to be a cheaper, natural solution. Little did I know; natural homemade deodorant would be more e ..read more

This article may contain affiliate links, which help to support this site, at no cost to you. I like a good Bloody Mary, but I’ll drink a bad one too. I’m drinking one now as a matter of fact. It’s a Saturday morning. What the hell?  Using a toothpick for garnishes is just a safety hazard I’m not a snob. In particular, I usually want one whenever I’ve got time to kill in an airport in the morning, and that’s where I’ve had some of the worst Bloodies. It’s also where I discovered that you can’t  get a Bloody Mary at JFK on a Sunday morning, thanks to New York’s ridiculous liquor laws ..read more

This article may contain affiliate links, which help to support this site, at no cost to you. (This article is part 3 of our Fireplace Makeover series.) We built this mantel entirely from a few pieces of rough-sawn lumber pulled out of a recycled building materials yard. Part of the fun of building it was deciding how to combine the pieces while keeping the rustic charm of the wood. Our local yard is great, and you can probably find lots of reclaimed wood sources in your area to build your own mantel. The cutout in the top plank allows for a tight fit to the brick. From above you can see the ..read more