
vintage-style deck makeover
I’ve always been what you call an “indoor girl” when it comes to home decor. When we put our house on the market (and ended up not selling it) last spring, our realtor put an “I’m Beautiful Inside” sign above the “For Sale” sign. That’s realtor code for “It looks better once you walk through the front door.” It’s not that I didn’t care about the outside, but with two little boys, a business to run and a limited budget, we focused our attention on the inside and didn’t have much time, money or motivation to work on the outside. Now that the boys are getting older and we’re almost finished with the inside of the house, we’ve been working on the outside in bits and pieces. We replaced the front door (you could actually see outside through some cracks in the old door), installed a new driveway (the old one was


