Ideas

If you haven't been on Pinterest you need to get on it now.  If you have you know what I am talking about.  The idea is that you have electronic pinboards where you can post pictures which link to the websites they came from.  This website can be useful for so many things but the main reason I am writing about it here is to share with you how it can help you improve your home.

I have one pinterest board dedicated to things that inspire me or that I could do to my house.  There are a wide variety of things on their from gardening ideas to colors I like or tips and tricks for cleaning.  It can really be anything you want. Most of my "pins" as they call them I get from looking at what other people have already pinned. So what if I am not being super original? I do the same thing when I walk by a person's house and steal their ideas. This way I don't look all creepy walking down the street staring at people's houses!

So here are a few examples of what I have pinned:

A succulent wall hanging. Apparently you can hang plants on a wall.  I think this look really interesting and cool and for only a few dollars you can make great outdoor art.  Just get an old frame at Goodwill, tightly plant a few small and inexpensive succulent plants in it and hang. Great for a patio.

We have a small yard so any space saving ideas are welcome.  This one not only saves space it also reuses old materials and I am a total hippy in that I love recycling.  We have one area on the north side of our house that is wasted space because we never go back there and there is not a whole lot of sun.  But lettuce and some other veggies do fine in the shade so if I find some old gutters at the reuse store this spring I might have to try this.

There are a lot of great ideas floating around out there but it can take a long time to find them. Using pinterest I don't have to find them because someone else already has!  This is a great idea for a slow release watering system instead of just dumping a bunch of water on top. We have a rather slanted yard so a lot of the water runs off anyway!  This will keep your plants wet longer but it does take up a chunk of space if you are limited in that department.

I usually pin garden things because it is spring and that is my main focus right now. However, we do have an attic that could look a lot like this. I generally try not to dream to big because of my small budget but maybe someday we can finish that space and make it nice. Although I doubt it will every be this nice. 

This last photo is to demonstrate the fact that there is MUCH more on pinterest than just stuff about gardening and home design.  There are good and bad things, funny and sad thing, useful and utterly useless things on pinterest just like the rest of the internet.  It is all about how you chose to use it. I hope this post has inspired you to use pinterest or some other internet website to better your home and/or life. 

Fat Squirrel says "Get going!".