Forum: Home Improvements
04-07-2009, 08:57 PM
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Replies: 54
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house colours
great ideas now here! I am also 'officially' in said 'cottage'
i still like lilac but no it will NOT be pink! but when i sit in my still concrete patio i do not see lilac working at the back of the...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
28-06-2009, 01:51 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,109
new garden/what to plant/veg etc
Not a great time to start building a garden or veggie patch.
What could i plant now, mid summer to produce either perennials or veg toward the end of summer/autumn.
Most veg i cannot eat but the...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
28-06-2009, 01:25 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 15,845
Fantastic idea
would love to know JTers around dun laoghaire/shankill/bray who would be interested in doing just this.
I would be so interested. it would be fun too.
xminnie pal
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
28-06-2009, 01:23 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,130
limescale?
I am sure this is common in England in bigger cities, maybe a solvant used for limescale or something.
Or even google a site that maybe 'relines' these baths. Just two thoughts on this prob.
minnie...
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Forum: Home Improvements
28-06-2009, 01:20 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 32,141
cottage colours
did you go to 'blooms' in the phoenix park? they had just such a colour scheme on one of their show gardens, cottage garden!
minnie pal
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
28-06-2009, 01:18 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,903
shade
gosh thanks for those two tips, would love to find the link to the broken umbrellas.
would the russian vine be ok to attract wildlife?
could i use the frame of a swingseat as a sort of pergola for...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
23-06-2009, 10:14 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,903
new garden, no shade!
shade is very important for me.
I know gardens are not instant but i need 'instant' but i want a natural instant.
I know most would go for the parasol or the swing seat, i would love the latter a lot...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
21-06-2009, 09:26 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 3,300
on concrete - again!
what ground cover works well in place of the standard grass? I would like to attract wildlife but would also like to walk on it in bare feet, and I believe some cover can be scented too, but i dont...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
21-06-2009, 09:22 PM
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Replies: 0
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new home trellis both sides
on either side of a small yard are very low walls with very very bare see -through trellis, i kinda want some privacy and wish to plant against these, climbers or sommut, but how do you tell the...
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Forum: Home Improvements
21-06-2009, 08:10 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 32,141
yes!
my twin said that last night and she knows nought about computers, i can do that, for sure.
thats a great idea actually, i never thought of it.
xminnie pal
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
20-06-2009, 10:45 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,756
environmentally unfriendly?
Is iT WRONG to go into the mountains and pick stones or small rocks for a very small patio.
I want to do the right thing.
dont want to disturb anything.
I was thinking of really dumped or strewn...
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Forum: Home Improvements
20-06-2009, 10:42 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 32,141
***what you think-colour bungalow-pics*****
I am VERY close to two small bugalows and sandwiched between em.
one is painted a pale yellow, a lovely colour indeed, the other a very harsh terracotta
i was thinking for mine which is in the middle...
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Forum: Home Improvements
19-06-2009, 11:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,466
concrete removal
thanks for that tip, thats great, may need a lump hammer for parts, eg wee pond? Larger plants?
xxminnie pal
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Forum: Home Improvements
16-06-2009, 09:06 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,466
removing solid concrete
Is solid concrete hard to get off a complete small yard, does one have to be careful of pipes underneath.
How do you prepare for soil and grass after removal.
What do people mean when they...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
03-06-2009, 09:26 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 5,756
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
03-06-2009, 09:19 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,477
my wicked idea
Saw something on sale on ebay which I am gonna try and borrow.
A long bamboo with clothes pegs. Hung horizontally I can put clothes pegs and for delicate hats use some kind of spong between the...
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
01-06-2009, 10:58 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 15,371
beautiful memory
My dear deceased Mum had one of these singer stand and she repurposed it as you did, but Mum had dementia and we showered our love as she made a pattern on the top of mdf, WITHOUT OUR help.
She was...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
01-06-2009, 10:50 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,477
hat stand - just an idea
I am going to trawl hotels to see if one can be got from them as they are NOT coming up here! Hat stands are not a common item anymore but I saw a few in a conference centre in a hotel in crewe...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
01-06-2009, 10:33 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 70,389
we forget quicker than we think we do!
needing to declutter in a big way as only living in three rooms, I 'bagged' EIGHT bin bags of old artwork, drawings, sketches and scribbles, from Art College days to today, 30yrs on. Some of it was...
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Forum: Home Improvements
01-06-2009, 05:12 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 6,408
thanks for tips
forgot to say, this is going to go OUTDOORS. Yes, I like the way you put the butterflies down, sounds more delicate than white paste all over the place.
Laminate might bubble in the heat but your...
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Forum: Home Improvements
01-06-2009, 05:00 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 6,408
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
30-05-2009, 12:40 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 70,389
decluttering
I very badly need to declutter, it is 'doing my head in' I want a sparse space because I believe in the quiet mind is reflected in the home. but I love stuff. Yeh, stuff. Not a lot of it is of...
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
28-05-2009, 10:59 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 29,770
bird bath
fantastic, when (?) I get my patch the bird bath is a MUSt. This is a fabulous one, so unusual.
Just check with BirdWatch Ireland about bread at this time of year when the birds have young cos it...
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Forum: Green Tips & Green Fingers
24-05-2009, 09:39 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 9,730
old money
coffee table idea great, make a grid with inch high stripes and in each grid make some with coins and others with old pics of your ma and maybe one or two small items she liked, or invites or small...
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Forum: Before & After (Upcycling)
14-05-2009, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 8,335
not a difficult job, honest
The wicker basket just needed 'hair trim' and a lick of dark stain and the mat cut from the wallpaper was done using a tracing paper template and taken to a stationers, they heatsealed it with A4...
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