We Do Enjoy A Challenge…

We are especially excited to be a part of the 48-Hour Challenge with Better Homes & Gardens and Home Depot. Here is the deal, Home Depot and BHG selected five of their “go-to home and garden bloggers” (we are blushing) “to create clever weekend projects for outdoor living using $500 in materials from The Home Depot.” I know! We are still pinching ourselves. Feel free to pop over to BHG.com and read more about the challenge, oh and you will see that our lovely friend Nicole over at Making It Lovely is also in on the action. Lively, lively, lively! We are in fact both sprucing up our front porches so of course we cannot wait to see what she has in store for her vivid home.

Speaking of in store, we have already done a swift run-through of Home Depot (a la Supermarket Sweep) and picked up some lively little starting point pieces. Although we lately tried to spruce up our porch on a dime with old spray painted chairs and new painted wood planters, we are about to take porch pimping to a whole new level. Here is simply a sampling of the stuff that we have already grabbed and stashed in our sunroom (of course there will also be penny pinching building and painting projects so stay tuned…)

And because we enjoy a good hint (or four), it is safe to say that our new porch plan includes: some rockin’ new seating, painting between the lines, a bit of a Burger zone, and a 2 minute make-your-own-side-table walkthrough.

We cannot wait for our big two day transformation that is sure to be full of sweat and perhaps even some tears of joy (hopefully no blood if we can assist it). Throughout April we will be blogging on BHG.com about our project preparation and our plan of attack, and then in early May comes the big reveal! Stick around for weekly updates and all the dirty Hands-on details.