My favorite plants for your summer landscape Welcome to Friday at the Farm! It’s no secret that I love to garden around Duke Manor Farm. Any chance I can to dig in the dirt, weed or move plants or flowers around, count me in. And although summer is not entirely over, there is still a…
Where the heck did summer go and back to school Where the heck did summer go! My kids headed back to school last Friday and I am feeling a little sad …and weird. Sad that they are growing up and sad that our carefree summer has come to an end. Weird cause it’s so quiet…
Hey color lovers! I am so excited to share my newly built screen porch and the fun pops of color that I added for summer. Today, I am joining 9 other color loving bloggers who are revealing their spaces as well. Links will be at the bottom of the post. You don’t want to miss…
Although the official start of summer isn’t until next week….you wouldn’t know that around Duke Manor. My kids have been out of school for a month and we are totally settled in to our summer gig. Since things are moving a bit slower around here, I thought I would share random moments in this weeks…
Welcome to the 2017 Summer Home Tour at Duke Manor Farm.Thanks for stopping by the Summer Home Tour. Special thanks to our host Marty for coordinating summer home tours from 30 amazing bloggers this week. If you are joining from Inspiration for Mom’s , I am so glad that you are here! I love Laura’s newly styled front…
Building a screen porch…the plan. So, if the pool and pond projects weren’t enough to take on, let’s just add one more to the list. A new screened porch. But no complaints here. We actually have been wanting to create an outdoor screened area for some time. The thought of not getting eaten alive in the…
Our Backyard Dream Pool Adventure…..The before. Our backyard has been a little busy these days….. and so have we. Prepping it for our dream pool. The last time we did a project this big it made me feel nervous, excited and poor all at the same time . That was when we built Duke Manor Farm…
The Aquafresh brand has compensated me in connection with the statements made in this post. There are a few things we take pretty seriously around Duke Manor Farm. Two of them…. our sparkly bikes, and our sparkly teeth. I know you are probably scratching your head and wondering how in the world my DIY summer car wash and parade…
With each day that stays a bit lighter out, and temps warm enough to put away the coats and sweatshirts, I can’t help but think about being outside and sitting in one of the 6 amazing outdoor spaces….especially since my backyard is still very much an active construction zone….. with no shortage of Georgia red clay. This is where…
In less then two weeks, I will be boarding a flight to travel to Europe. And although I am filled with excitement and an overwhelming feeling of gratitude to be able to go, I am also nervous and anxious. I have never been away from my kids or husband for 10 days, and just writing this…
Not even 30 degree temps and whipping winds could keep us from working on our first outdoor project of the year over the weekend….an outdoor fire pit. All was good and moving right along until the temperature reached 25 degrees the next day, and so we headed inside and decided it could wait to get finished another weekend. I should back it…
Baby it’s cold out, which can only mean that it’s perfect time for tea time at Duke Manor Farm. How are you this week and how is the New Year treating you so far? Other then almost sending my kids back to school one day early (thank goodness for friends who told me they had…