Painted Patio DIY

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Painted Patio DIY

The inside of our house has everything I could possibly wish for…the backyard has so much potential, but we haven’t been able to do anything with it yet. We had a deck that only seats two (I don’t understand that 1960s style choice). We don’t have the budget to add onto the deck at the moment so we are going to work on a little patio at the end of our property.

First, we took down a dilapidated shed, which left us with a pile of old bricks (score!) and a 8' x 10’ concrete slab. This is just phase one so hang with me….

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How we renovate on a budget

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How we renovate on a budget

Someone dm’ed me on instagram and asked if I would share about how we have been able to renovate our home while pinching some pennies. My words…she didn’t actually say pinching pennies.

This is how we have done every house we have renovated, really. This is our fourth house and 3rd fixer upper. My husband is a five on the enneagram and so basically is always in fear that we need to save money and not spend anything, and as a result, we have learned to do a lot ourselves and tried to find ways to have high end design on a low-medium budget. For most of our lives, we have done this on a small ministry budget and we just are careful about how we spend money.

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