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DIY shed to playhouse conversion before photo of old sheep farm shed

DIY Plans To Convert A Shed To A Kids Playhouse

April 7, 2025

Two terracotta saucers sitting on a black surface, the top one filled with seed starting mix and the bottom one filled with potting soil; a small flat of cucumber seedlings and a garden trowel sit beside the saucers

Seed Starting Mix Vs. Potting Soil: Which To Use?

March 31, 2025

Dark green built-in bookcases filled with fiction books in both paperback and hardcover; a small black table sits in front of the shelves and holds a stack of books, potted houseplant, jar, and small brush

Tips For Decluttering Books To Downsize Your Collection

March 27, 2025

Testing all of the dark Minwax stains on samples of douglas fir wood; colors include Dark Walnut, Early American, Ebony, English Chestnut, Espresso, Honey, Jacobean, Mocha, Provincial, Red Mahogany, Red Oak, Special Walnut, and True Black

Comparing Dark Stain Colors On Douglas Fir Wood

March 24, 2025

Organizing seeds in a plastic photo storage box turned into a DIY seed organizer, seed packets fill the photo boxes which are labeled by seed type and placed in the larger storage box; packets of seeds are spread out on the floor next to the photo boxes

How To Organize Seeds Easily In A Photo Organizer

March 10, 2025

A dirt road during mud season in Vermont around early March, dirt road filled with ruts and water, snow banks on the side of the road, blue sky with not leaves or buds on the trees surrounding the road

A Country Girl’s Guide To Mud Season In Vermont

March 6, 2025

The kitchen pantry zone before picture of our kitchen including a vintage cream jelly cabinet, low green bookcase filled with pantry items and jars, vintage cabinet hanging above the bookcase with storage baskets on top, and a stone blue tall cabinet for a microwave

Meet The Pantry Zone In Our Kitchen We Have Yet To Get Right

March 3, 2025

A collection of seed packets spread across the black table top, small glass jar filled with beet seeds, a wooden dibbler on the table, and a pair of hands holding beet seeds in one hand while selecting a seed with the other hand

2025 Kitchen Garden Grow List

February 27, 2025

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Bedroom plants including a spider plant, aloe vera plant, ZZ plant, and succulents basking in the bright light from a South facing window in early spring

DIY Articles

Rough cut wood boards stacked with spacers in between the boards, acclimating inside a home

Is Acclimating Wood For Furniture Building Necessary?

A DIY playground deck attached to a renovated, old playground to make a deck extension, playground painted white with a black and white striped canopy over the old section of the playground deck

How To Build A DIY Playground Deck In Your Backyard

A vintage 1700s white colonial house with a slate roof, flag pole in front, and a family of four in front of it

Projects Plans And Goals For 2025

Craft room with a large wall to wall standing desk and dark painted walls peeking through the doorway with a small, wooden rolltop desk next to the door

The Best And Worst Of 2024

A trio of paintbrushes in a variety of sizes next to a HomeRight Finish Max paint sprayer sitting on white painted playground decking

Paintbrush Vs Sprayer For Painting A Playground

Decorating Articles

Holiday home tour 2024 featured image with a fireplace mantle decorated for Christmas with pine garlands, white knit stockings, light blue beaded garlands, gilded mirror, and red candlesticks

Holiday Home Tour 2024 Of Our Vermont Farmhouse

A DIY Christmas tree stand bucket using a fresh cut mini pine tree, galvanized bucket, some rocks filling the bucket, and vintage ornaments adorning the tree which is sitting next to a window in a hallway

How To Make An Easy DIY Christmas Tree Stand Bucket

A ceramic Christmas house that's hand-painted in red, green, white, and gray with Santa coming down the chimney; house is sitting on a board surrounded by bottle brush trees and white ceramic houses from Target

Adding Nostalgia With A Ceramic Christmas House

December 1st box with a Classic Christmas Stories box, Merry sweatshirt, pagamas, card game, Yoto card, and fuzzy holiday socks in a pink gift box on a tree skirt

50+ Ideas For Your December 1st Box Tradition

The best Thanksgiving read alouds for kids with all the Thanksgiving picture books on the bookshelves, decorated for Thanksgiving, and a wicker desk underneath with books and art projects on it

Best Kids Thanksgiving Books And Favorite Read Alouds

Gardening Articles

Four packets of new seeds for the 2025 garden season displayed (including green arrow pea, rich sweetness melon, green globe artichoke, and onions) in front of a galvanized tote filled with seed packets

Do Plant Seeds Expire Or Go Bad?

A photo of the biggest reason why I garden, teaching my children how to grow food with a toddler using a green watering can to water cucumbers in terracotta pots

Three Goals For The 2025 Vegetable Garden Season

A collection of six seed varieties in small glass mason jars to showcase a variety of seeds and where to buy seeds both online and in person

Where To Buy Seeds For Your Vegetable or Flower Garden

How to plant flower pots featured image with a mix of terracotta pots filled with white and purple flowers on a deck

How To Plant Flower Pots And Decorate With Containers

What is a kitchen garden featured image with several raised beds filled with vegetables ready for fall harvesting

What Is A Kitchen Garden?

Homekeeping Articles

How to clean a messy room fast featured image with a kid's messy bedroom, toys and dirty clothes all over the floor, unmade bed, and little space to walk through the room

5 Steps For How To Clean A Messy Room Quickly

A messy playroom within a messy house with toys all over the floor and a craft table covered with toys and art supplies

When The House Is Messy, Dirty, And Overwhelming

DIY memory box for school keepsakes with hanging file folder, filled out school years interview sheet, memories tucked inside the folder, and hung in a portable file box

DIY Memory Box For Kids School Year Keepsakes

Storage ideas for kids school papers with stack of kids worksheets, artwork, newsletters, and more on a desk

Easy System For Collecting And Storing Kids’ School Papers

Declutter challenge end featured image with a basket corralling donations including a pair of women's boots and some kids' slippers

Conclusion Of The Declutter Challenge

Dirt Road Diaries

Turn your waiting room into a classroom featured image with a stack of design books sitting on a shelf in front of framed ship art print, dried flowers in a vase, and coral

Turn Your Waiting Room Into A Classroom

My homebody rich life featured image with a lakehouse bedroom all in white including a lofted ceiling with exposed beams

What Does A Rich Life Look Like As A Homebody?

40 Greatest Moments blog post featured image with wood kitchen island

The 40 Greatest DIY And Decor Moments on Angie’s Roost

I am a homemaker raising two little girls in the countryside of Vermont

I Am A Homemaker

Where we have been featured image with Angie and her two girls on a dirt road

Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Been Up To

Angie's Roost family in front of their old Vermont farmhouse

About Us

Hi There, I’m Angie

I’m Angie (and that’s Colby and our minis). Together, we’re on a mission to renovate our #circa1781 farmhouse in Vermont into our dream home. One budget project at a time. We aim to inspire others to learn DIY and cultivate a home with character.

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