Dear Chicago House, Question: What can you make with water, food coloring, freezing temperatures and a silicon baking mold? Answer: Why some icy valentine hearts that’s what! Aren’t these just […]
Garden
Decorating with House Plants
Dear Chicago House, When I moved into you a little over a year ago I arrived with NONE of my gorgeous house plants. The removal company had I used had […]
Chicago Flowers
Dear Chicago House, I know I moaned that it took forever for summer to start this year but you are now in full swing and I have to say I […]
Staining a deck that’s gone green
Dear Chicago House, Eeek one of your decks has gone green, you know I am not that keen on brown but when you go and try to disguise it with […]
Flower pot in bloom
Dear Chicago House, Remember those terracotta pots I painted a while back? Well they are well and truly bloomed up now with “impossible to kill” impatients. Don’t they look pretty! […]
A Garden Room
Dear Chicago House, After a very late start your your garden is at last looking like summer. You have lots of lovely places to sit, I like to call them […]
How to paint a terracotta garden pot
Dear Chicago House, I had a rummage though your garage the other day and found three terracotta garden pots that had seen better days. Two of them had been painted […]
Homemade Deer Repellent Spray
Dear Chicago House, You are a dark horse. Who knew the short burst of heat we had last week would produce such abundance of color in your garden. I had […]
A vegetable garden experiment
Dear Chicago House, See this patch of nondescript grass with that weird thing in the corner? Well I have plans for you. I have wanted to have a vegetable garden […]
A spring Chicago garden
Dear Chicago House, It’s May 4th and your trees still look like this. I have to say I am shocked as to just how long your winter lasts. Everyone says […]
