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How to Budget a Landscape Design Renovation

Garden with pool and clipped boxwood hedges, with olive trees

My Landscape Mood Board & Planning Process

Verbena grows in a natural-looking meadow garden.

Garden Design Ideas for a Beautiful, Low-Maintenance Landscape

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Tina Flint Huffman 4/3/23 Tina Flint Huffman 4/3/23

How to Budget a Landscape Design Project (Without Costly Mistakes or Overplanting)

So you’re considering taking on a remodeling project or a design project of some kind for your home. Maybe its an entire kitchen remodel, or maybe it’s more modest like re configuring some of your landscape beds, or buying furniture and home decor. That’s great! Next question though - how to make a budget for it, and if its a larger project like that dream kitchen or bath, how to fund your remodel?

Tina Flint Huffman 8/10/21 Tina Flint Huffman 8/10/21

DIY Outdoor Sofa [How to Paint Iron Furniture]

Looking to create your own backyard oasis complete with an outdoor living room? Great goal! But then you go shopping for outdoor sofas and furniture and you have serious sticker shock. Here’s a solution - with a little resourcefulness and elbow grease, you can DIY it! Source a sofa or daybed for cheap that can work outdoors and create a stylish statement-making piece for way less.

Tina Flint Huffman 7/29/21 Tina Flint Huffman 7/29/21

El Yunque National Forest [Puerto Rico Tropical Field Trip]

I don’t know about you, but I get really excited about seeing some of my favorite indoor tropical plants growing and thriving outdoors. Besides just the novelty of seeing a plant many of us think of as a “houseplant” growing outside, it’s also interesting to observe how their growth habits differ in a natural environment.

Backstory - I just took my boys on a vacation to Puerto Rico. We were thrilled to learn it’s home to El Yunque National Forest, the only rainforest in the US National Forest Service.

In the capital city of San Juan as well, there were many “indoor plants” we saw growing as stunning landscape plants. (Including our favorite FLFs!) It was spectacular, and I want to share with you some of the botanical wonders we saw there.

Tina Flint Huffman 7/15/21 Tina Flint Huffman 7/15/21

Garden Design Ideas for a Beautiful, Low-Maintenance Landscape

Tina Flint Huffman 6/21/21 Tina Flint Huffman 6/21/21

It's Amazon Prime Day!

It’s Amazon Prime days and there are deals galore! Take a look and see what suits your fancy. I’m going for a mesh WIFI system since we have serious coverage issues in my house, a Kindle Paperwhite - it's $50 bucks off and my sis insists it’s a must have, some shelter mags like Elle Decor, and who knows what all else - the day(s) are still young! :) Prime Day runs now through tomorrow, so don't dilly-dally!