Choosing Plants for your Garden
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Choosing Plants for your Garden

Do you ever walk into your local hardware or garden store, see all the amazing plants and colorful flowers, and feel completely overwhelmed and leave with nothing? Or, walk out with $100 in flowers that don’t actually make sense for your garden? I hope your answer is yes, because I’ve done both of these several…

How to Paint Your Porch Railings
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How to Paint Your Porch Railings

Active Time: 4 hours Total Time: 3 days to allow for dry time Cost: $50 if you have some of the tools, closer to $100 if you need to buy everything Help Needed?: Nope. This is an easy solo task. Difficulty: Beginner (just need the right tools and some elbow grease) Today on A Girl’s…

How to Replace an Outdoor Light Fixture
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How to Replace an Outdoor Light Fixture

After building my confidence in electrical work with the indoor lights I replaced, I decided I needed to tackle an outdoor light fixture, specifically our back porch light. My husband and my dad replaced the front porch light shortly after we moved in, and that made such a big difference! Our back porch light fixture…

Your Go-To Outdoor Spring Cleaning Checklist!
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Your Go-To Outdoor Spring Cleaning Checklist!

Everyone has a list of things they Spring clean indoors (or at least, would Spring clean if they had the time and energy!), but your porch and yard needs a little love too before the Summer heat strikes and before you start entertaining outside. Here’s my go-to things on my outdoor Spring cleaning checklist that…

Starting Seeds Outdoors
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Starting Seeds Outdoors

Hi friends! The weather in Northern Virginia has been so nice the last few weeks, so I’ve been spending a lot of time getting the garden ready for planting. I know I wrote about starting seeds indoors a few weeks ago, but today I’m going to share my tips on starting seeds outdoors. Growing up…