Mary, these were such great projects and updates! Curious, have you thought about doing something like Stonecoat epoxy countertops for your kitchen? I've seen them make some pretty great looking faux stone designs!
Always love e your videos! No matter what it is there is usually something that makes me think of something new. Thanks that Mary and have a great week
If you ever do another floor like your bathroom... Start with a fun pattern, every other tile or a boarder around the edge. That way if life happens, you can press pause and the floor looks fabulous even if you know it's only half done. (I do that with my quilting. Do the main parts, get it bound, use it and work on the fine points as time allows.) 💖🌞🌵😷
Hi Mary, we had a muck problem in our koi pond and having it professionally cleaned was going to cost $750. So I did some research and found barley straw bales on amazon that seemed to work for many people. I have used two bales this summer and the muck is gone. These are the ones I ordered - Summit 130 Clear-water Barley Straw Bales. Hope this helps.
Oh. My. Goodness! We're coming up on November 18th because I've always wanted to meet you! You're a mini-celeb in my house. 😊 And, we love the videos/projects, of course.
What a blast from the past I was most definitely there when you did that beautiful bathroom floor, so inspiring I am still looking to do my own. Thank you Mary for the inspiration.❤❤
Great update , i remember all of the Videos and being amazed at how brave you are trying something new that probably most of us wouldn’t dare to do . That’s why you’re our hero , Mary 😊
Ty Mary for taking us down Memory Lane with you! I can't believe i've been watching you almost 5 years!! Still love your channel just as much, maybe more! You've become so much more comfortable in front of the camera, so obvious when you show clips- i'm so proud of how far you've evolved! Great video, as always😊
Mary we need the link to the Heritage Ctr you talked about for the Nov. 18th. I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since you painted the bathroom floor! I remember that and loved it!
This was a very interesting episode. I too have painted a lot of furniture and also a floor. Some turned out great, some not so much, so it's nice to see that someone as talented as you has regrets sometimes, too. I love your challenge, Mary, always enjoyable.
Re: painting the downstairs floor. Fun fact: there's two kinds of dirt... light colored and dark colored. So even if you had painted that floor white, the dark colored dirt would have shown. That's why your bathroom floor is stunning... It hides the light colored and the dark dirt! 💖🌞🌵😷
Oh, I remember so many of these projects!! Hope you get your kitchen makeover soon! That would be a fun inside winter project for us to watch! Consider doing the real quartzite countertops. Mine has lasted forever & I'm a scratch cooker/canner. I did the White Macubus that looks somewhat similar to your painted one only with some gray & occasional light blue & tan. So fun just to look at it.
Mary's counter redo inspired me to take on an old drafting table that's been sitting around the shed for years. Dark tilting tabletop that I hated, it's now a soft taupe shade thanks to a sander and a little bleach spray. It's in the house and makes a beautiful hangout for my plants.
I love updates! Thank you for providing it. Not too difficult to think of Christmas because we got a few inches of snow last night here in Chardon. Hope we can make it to the November show and see you!
I am so glad that your projects are holding up still after four years! Doing this follow-up video gives some of us more timid ones the confidence to try out new ideas. I do believe that you are blessed with a gift of creativity and generosity in sharing your knowledge with others. Thank you for this informative video!👍
Hey Mary :) I knew an old gal that would sponge paint her kitchen floor it was sooo.. many colors as it would wear shed get a couple colors and dab a lil here n there it was very pretty actually. So how about some texture painting over the black? Maybe look like wood planks? Splatter? Sponge? Rag roll? Using left over paints? Doesn't hurt to be creative. You can always paint over it! :D
I admire all your hard work, and your honesty about how projects weathered the years. You have a lovely home and property, and y'all work hard to maintain everything. So warm and welcoming. Happy November and Happy Thanksgiving!
I can not believe that that is the same kitchen. What a transformation! You really make everything look so beautiful. I wish I had half of your talent!
If you haven’t tried using microbes to treat your pond I highly suggest it. I used them for years to treat 2 retention ponds. One with a spring. It worked fabulous. You throw a biodegradable sphere in once a month. And in hotter summer days a blast packet. It’s called Aquasphere biodegradeable pond treatment. You can use multiple spheres idepending on pond size. Get from healthy ponds.
Mary that was a really nice video. I was watching your channel during most of those and like seeing how they are years later.. The only one you did not mention was when you painted the basement ceiling. I mention that because you deserve the credit as it was a BEAST to do. Thanks
I painted my kitchen cabinets white about 20 years ago, they are really distressed now.😂. So I am forward to remodeling next year new counters, new cabinets. I want to add some. We will get someone to design the new space. We want to add value to it. Maybe raise the valuation.
Hi Mary...a great video first. But..got a bit off about your pond. Here in Manila...if we live in province.. that's maybe country in yours.. each lgu have done dredging coz we suffer from floods,can be dangerous to some. Maybe you can ask your local government for help upon dredging your pond. One story I have... A business magnet here.. scooped out a portion of a Lakeshore sea and filled it up with soil cement or what. Turns out a majestic shopping mall. All the best❤
Cement needs to be painted with epoxy paint. We have painted many garage floors and after YEARS of parking hot tires on it….NO DAMAGE! We did add sprinkles to hide any dirt.
We’ve used the Pond Guy for years, as has our nephew, and our ponds have improved greatly. I’m thinking there must have been something disturbed underneath your pond muck that has caused the problem. Just wondering if you’ve had your water analyzed. That may provide some answers as to what’s causing the trouble. Hope you can get it worked out so you can enjoy your beautiful pond again. I enjoy your videos immensely. You are an inspiration!
I love that color, is it gray or green. I agree about the dish washer. Until I had one. I really wish I had another washing machine. But I have a slab under my house. No lovely basement. For a sewing, nor another desk for my beading. Sometimes, I like to play with Drawing and painting. So now I watched the indigenous Americans. Working on art. One did painting, another pottery, and another did beading, I think the young man that did the beading. He was learning to bead from his mother, not from his father, he disappeared. They all felt compelled. To do it the art. I was wanting to knit when I was a child. When in high school I wanted to to learn to sew. So I did learn. I taught myself. I help my best friend sew. But she didn’t feel compelled. In my senior year I learned to sew a bonded wool. Well that was not just like
Another compelling hit for me. I had a dream when I left my first husband. He was an horrible man, so I left him. I would enter a shelter for abused woman. While there I got funding for a education. I felt compelled to be a LPN To 2 semesters. Well I still had one more semester.
Well, I came to my interviews with a dress on. I think they thought I was that religion. They that wrong religion were except I wasn’t that wrong. I was Methodist, til My fifth grade teacher she was terrible. And She was the ministers wife. The next year I went to the Presbyterian church. I went the next year with another I added Catholic friends. I learned not be amused by Baptizt. Our town had 2 Catholic Churches. And one is closed now, when I was I baptized it was in the Lutheran. Well, to German Lutheran of in my community. My mother, was raised in that church, my grandfather Remt, His father Juergen, went too, his father George, and Hinrich. I may have the spelling incorrect. There is only one page and I don’t want remembers correctly. My Heinrich may gone back. Some of them went back. One of my cousins went over to Germany to finish the genealogy. I won’t get to go since I am 70 and my mom would not get one. The family didn’t like that my step brother was not include in the genealogy
I love watching your videos and you make beautiful things. Is the “Filoli Ballroom” a greyed green or is it grey? It looks greenish to me but it might not be. That’s what translates as I’m watching. I’m wanting a nice, modest, soothing green for my kitchen cabinets.
Mary. I can’t believe the majority of the projects you referred to I have seen throughout the years. I guess I’ve been watching you for a long time! Look at how much you have accomplished. Congrats. I look forward to many more years of videos.
Thanks for this update, Mary. I have been watching your videos for at least five years and I have enjoyed them all. Not sure when you started. My kitchen cabinets are in need of painting after 22 years! They are white and I’m thinking of painting at least the island some shade of green. I may keep the rest white or change all of them. I did paint my former home’s cabinets and it wasn’t that bad! Maybe my winter project! I hope your pond can be fixed. Nothing worse than bad smelling air. Looking forward to whatever you bring us next.
Loved the video. I thought it was a good idea to share. It gives all of us some inspiration. My favorite was the bathroom floor. It still looks great. I’d give just about anything to have a kitchen like yours. I love the layout of it n everything still looks good to me. I would love to do my cabinets over ( there white) but I just don’t have the energy like you. ♥️♥️😊👍👍🌟🌟🌟
Thank you Mary for sharing this video. I only started watching you a couple of years ago but I've watched all the videos you have ever made. So I've seen how you did these projects. You inspire us & I enjoy each & every video. Yours are my favorite to watch!❤
Thank you Mary for sharing this video. I only started watching you a couple of years ago but I've watched all the videos you have ever made. So I've seen how you did these projects. You inspire us & I enjoy each & every video. Yours are my favorite to watch!❤
Thank you Mary for sharing this video. I only started watching you a couple of years ago but I've watched all the videos you have ever made. So I've seen how you did these projects. You inspire us & I enjoy each & every video. Yours are my favorite to watch!❤
Thank you Mary for sharing this video. I only started watching you a couple of years ago but I've watched all the videos you have ever made. So I've seen how you did these projects. You inspire us & I enjoy each & every video. Yours are my favorite to watch!❤
You do a beautiful job on painting your different projects. And it's okay when they get chipped little through the years. When I look at every chip I see a memory and the chips on your kitchen table just shows that a happy family sits around that table enjoying meals together. Although I'm still trying to figure out how you accomplished all these projects and still cook for your family?
Mary I have seen all these episodes and have loved them all. I really love the bathroom floor it still looks beautiful. Thank you for taking us back to all these episodes. Have a blessed week! ♥️🙏
Love your videos! I’ve learned so much from them. Also, those videos that are calming to me such as the cats, wildlife and outdoors… Thank you and God Bless!
Mary I love seeing how the projects have held up. You had said in the video that, “back when we were Amish.” Do you have a video that tells that story? About your transition out of being Amish?
I think your project are holding up great, I am a paint girl too and although I do love the scrubbed raw wood look that’s back in style I couldn’t live with dark colors in my house throughout Ohio winters. I love things bright and light. Your bathroom floor stuck looks great. How are the cottages doing? Do you still get lots of bookings? I would love to stay there one day xxx
Thanks Mary enjoyed seeing all the painting projects and they are still looked great. I wanted to ask I know you mentioned before you don’t have a problem painting in the cold (outside) I was going to paint my back porch railing and it’s about 65 degrees- you think it would be ok ? I just got too busy during the warm season to get it done. Thanks
I seem to remember hearing about when ponds like yours freeze over in winter, spreading a layer of gravel over it to sink into pond when it thaws, helping clarity in the pond.But just a suggestion maybe it wouldn’t work.
Love your entire home Mary,and the work you put into it is commendable! You really do put everything into each and every project and it shows! I had a pond many years ago and the smell you spoke of was caused in mine from the rotting leaves falling into it,they almost smelled like a dung pile at the local cow farm but just really strong and yes gas like,that was the fermentation of the leaves at the bottom. Everything compacts down to the bottom of the pond and turns to a slurry hence the smell,its definitely off putting and not a smell you would want while eating your dinner outside or sat watching the birds ect. I think when you have a pond the size of yours the only way would be to dredge the muck out from the old leaves and such but yes i think it would be very costly. Hopefully mother nature will lend a helping hand and work some magic for you and resolve the problem. Great video mary as ever.😊
Omg... we planted winter radishes last year, ALL growing season I was pulling radishes. I will never plant them again. I hope you have a better experience
My suggestion like others I'm sure is try if you have one your local extension agent ( a person that helps near by farmers and ranchers). You will likely reach him from are get information on the agent from your local high school or university agricultural proffessor. The agent often has the best knowledge of what's around you as investagation of risk on local commercial help save the populations food source. Have had surgery and hope you can understand me.
Great video. It's really interesting to see how the projects have weathered. I'm not surprised that you have had very few failures. Thank you for sharing.
I have a question, my kitchen cabinets are stained (yep they are that orangie color) can I restain them without sanding them down? I want to go darker so I was wondering. Any help would be appreciated
I pray that many here know Jesus. Just as the bible warned would happen, this present world is winding down. Jesus warned of many signs that would be precursors to His return. We are the generation that will see His return. Please seek God while He can still be found. He will turn no one away who earnestly seeks Him. You do not want to be here for the 7 year tribulation described in Revelation. We are watching the stage being set for it now.
You may want to run your aerator. It might be gases that were trapped on the bottom released from being stirred up. I'd still ask but I saw this on Lake Erie in October. They even put out an alert for it.
I want to paint my oak cabinets but hubby ain’t liking that idea..lol..I’m waiting to ask what kind of paint is good besides the oil based that was used..like interior satin..or there’s a paint called beyond paint that bonds to everything thank u❤
Love all your projects! I used the exact same peel n stick vinyl you put on your basement countertop. I put it on my kitchen counters about 3 years ago and it is still holding up!
I have painted our kitchen cupboards in the pandemic lockdown time and up to today i am so happy with it. As you say we spent a lot of time in our kitchens....we have to like the look❤❤
I appreciate your honesty about being stressed at times doing certain projects and you are the perfect go to person for painting advice. Enjoyed this video!!
