Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
After my old mower started having problems, I took the opportunity to buy a zero turn mower to replace it. Originally, I set out to buy a Cub Cadet from the Home Depot, but after a snafu where they ended up not having any in stock, they sold me a John Deere Z345M for the … Continue reading Zero Turn Mower
One of the nice things about buying the lake house is that it’s provided me with an excuse to replace certain things at the main house, and to send certain older things to the lake house to be refurbished and repurposes. This past weekend, I moved the old furniture that was on our deck to … Continue reading New Patio Furniture
Sometimes yard work or remodeling projects don’t always go according to plan. That definitely happened the other day when I ran over a stake with the lawn mower, and popped a tire: Continue reading Rough Day for the Lawn Mower
I had to transport a palette of 60 bags of waterlogged bark the other day, which the truck made easy work of after we forklifted the bark right into the bed of the truck: Continue reading Why To Own a Super Duty
This weekend, aside from enjoying an Arsenal FA Cup semifinal win over Man City, I finished my spring planting by planting roughly a dozen bushes and shrubs in both the front and back yards around my house. I planted primarily arbor vida and junipers, since the evergreen bushes continue to look good in the winter. … Continue reading More Spring Planting
Last year, I cleared a bunch of dead trees from my front yard. I used my truck to rip the trees out of the ground, which cleanly removed virtually all of them. However, it left 5-6 stumps still in the ground from cases where the tree ripped in half instead of fully coming out of … Continue reading Grinding Stumps
As part of my spring landscaping work first described in this post, I’ve added updated lighting, new furniture, and planters full of flowers to the front porch of my house, which has created a nice outdoor living room space on the front porch and made the walk up to the front door of the house … Continue reading Updated Front Porch
As the weather has continued to warm, I have started making small landscaping and other exterior improvements, as well as power washing the garage and the front porch. First, I replaced the arbor vidae on the Range Trail side of the wall, since the previous ones had died over the winter: After that, I planted … Continue reading Spring Landscaping
The last previous project post that I’m planning on writing for awhile covers one of the first, and still most ambitious, projects that I took on at my current house (the basement remodel at my first house could be a series for another day). This project involved the construction of a 100 yard long wall … Continue reading Wall and Gate
This week’s past project falls in one of my favorite categories: large outdoor construction. I really love projects that involve moving a lot of earth, and involve working with concrete and stonework. A future post will cover my wall and gate project, which remains one of my most ambitious project to date. This post, instead, will … Continue reading Fire Pit and Stone Seating Area
