How to Build and Install a Gate

*Affiliate links are included in this post. See my disclosure policy. If you’ve been following Charming Imperfections this spring you’ll know we tackled one of our largest home improvement projects yet: fencing in our backyard. It was quite the process as we went through the planning, building it to be straight, finding a helpful crew, and, finally, installing the gates…. Read More

How to Get Free Labor

Long ago, people did things less efficiently than we do today. Things like shelling beans, plowing fields with a horse drawn plow, and getting from point A to point B were a slow process. But, they did know how to do one thing super efficiently and with free labor to boot: raising barns. The whole community would get together for… Read More

Every Corner Needs a Cabinet

It’s hard to furnish or decorate because it’s too small. Ignore it and it leaves too much blank space in your otherwise handsomely decorated home. Overcrowd it, and it distracts from the rest of the room. Almost every house has one somewhere: it’s that tiny, problem causing corner between two doors. I’ll venture to bet you have one in your… Read More

Easy Window Box Tutorial

You and a friend are taking a stroll through the English country side. The rolling hills and pastures are a bright summer’s green on this rare sunny day, and there is a herd of sheep grazing contentedly. The dirt path you walk sees little to no traffic during this time of day which allows easy and peaceful conversation between yourself… Read More