Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Back in 2014, I had applied my own epoxy coating to the floors of the main garage at the Verona house. I did an okay job, but I probably didn’t prep the surface as well as I could have, and old school epoxy floors are notorious for failing after a certain period of time anyway. … Continue reading Garage Resurfacing
This spring, I traded in my Porsche for a McLaren 570GT. It’s my first true supercar, and has been unbelievably fun to drive, even if driving something that exotic takes a little bit of getting used to compared to something more traditional like the Porsche. It fits in very well with the rest of the … Continue reading New McLaren + Garage Shrine
I’ve lived in Wisconsin for 33 years, and somehow had avoided a rite of passage that most Wisconsinites have to go through at some point in their lives: hitting a deer. I was driving to work in the Bentley at highway speed, on a conference call when suddenly two deer jumped into the road. I … Continue reading Post-Deer Collision Bentley Repair
One of my birthday presents to myself this past January was upgrading the old Range Rover Sport into a new Range Rover Supercharged. It’s an unbelievably well engineered vehicle with a gorgeous interior and a fabulously powerful engine. The current fleet consists of a Bentley Flying Spur W12, Porsche Cayman S, Mercedes SL, Range Rover … Continue reading New Range Rover
One of the first tasks I did this spring as the weather started to warm up was to pull all of the cars out of the garage and vacuum and sweep the floors. It’s something I do every spring, and I’m usually able to keep the garage floors clean enough through the fall that I … Continue reading Spring Cleaning with an Interesting Discovery
After several years with an entry level John Deere zero turn mower that proved to not be up to the task of dealing with the uneven terrain of my land, I went to the Middleton Power Center and upgraded to a new Ariens mower. It has a much more durable frame, along with a bigger … Continue reading New Zero Turn Mower
Although it’s thankfully been a mild winter, we had some pretty impressive amounts of snow in February. Thankfully, the Range Rover and the Super Duty were able to plow their way through the snow and the rest of the cars stayed safely in the garage. Now that the calendar has turned to March, the weather … Continue reading Deep Snow
In my search for a new bar, I came to the realization that finding a pre-built, good looking bar with the right wood and other features was harder than I anticipated. I finally found one that I liked, but when I went to order it, I found that the company that made it, American Heritage … Continue reading New Bar from Indianapolis
As winter descends on Wisconsin, it was fun to take the new truck out in the first snow of the season! We’ll all be sick of the snow soon enough, but at least for a day it was nice. As anticipated, the truck handled everything really well and actually performed better than the old truck … Continue reading Truck Weather
Last weekend I finally upgraded my old Super Duty (a 2012 F250 Lariat) to a new F20 Lariat, this time with the 6.7 liter PowerStroke diesel engine instead of the gas engine that I’d previously had. It’s pretty astonishing how much Ford has improved the interior quality on the new trucks, with Mercedes caliber wood … Continue reading New Truck
