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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 3/25/20 Tina Flint Huffman 3/25/20

How To Make An Interior Design Mood Board (3 Easy Options)

Want to create your dream room but don’t even know where to start? What if I told you there’s a tool that can help get your ideas organized and on the right path from the get-go? It’s called a mood board, and it doesn’t matter if you’re a novice or the most experienced interior designer, every interior design project starts with a mood board. I totally get it - design projects can be overwhelming under the best of circumstances. So I’m here to show you how you can make your own simple interior design mood board to help get your project off to a strong start and not waste time or money by going in the wrong direction.

Tina Flint Huffman 3/23/20 Tina Flint Huffman 3/23/20

How To Pick Paint Colors For Your Home’s Interior

Picking paint is one of the most challenging parts of designing a room. I've done it enough to share designer advice, tips, and tricks on what to do and what costly mistakes to avoid when choosing interior paint palettes. When picking paint, whether it's a neutral palette or saturated color, these paint selection guidelines will help you find shades that not only can you live with but you love.

Tina Flint Huffman 1/12/20 Tina Flint Huffman 1/12/20

Protect Your Counter Top & Furniture Surfaces! [2 minute felt padding DIY]

Have you ever experienced decor-dismay when you discover scratches and damage to your nice tabletop or furniture because something with a rough edge had been placed on it without a protective layer? You realize every time it was even slightly moved, it was slowly etching itself into your countertop until you finally discovered it? I have, and in fact, I’ve had this happen twice in the past month - one from scratching and one from water damage, and both were totally preventable.

Tina Flint Huffman 12/19/19 Tina Flint Huffman 12/19/19

How To Propagate And Repot Agave Pups

Agaves and other plants that produce clone offshoots or “pups” are easy and rewarding to divide, transplant, and repot. There are just a few simple steps to successfully extract the pups from the mother plant and transplant into a pot or soil. So long as you’re careful with the roots and give them appropriate soil and water, your newly transplanted agaves should establish and grow beautifully.

Tina Flint Huffman 12/15/19 Tina Flint Huffman 12/15/19

No-Sew Baby Sock Christmas Ornament [5 Minute Holiday DIY]

Don’t donate those baby socks just yet - hang on to a couple of them! You know, the ones they wore when they came home from the hospital that fit perfectly, but then they outgrew in a hot minute.

Take 5 minutes to make them into what will become your most cherished Christmas ornaments in years to come.