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And then there’s always all the cursing that goes on whenever he does a project like this.

We still have a bit of work to do on that area but it really does look a million times better back there..The problem with these shutters is that they’re built right into the siding so they look really really fake.

They look OK from a distance, but they really bugged us.Also, white houses with dark green shutters are really popular around here and we didn’t want to be “one of the green houses” on our street anymore.. And now here’s how that window looks with new, slightly less fake-looking DIY shutters!.Just so much nicer, right?.

Here’s how we made them in like 5 minutes flat!.Chris picked up some 1×12 rough cut pine.

The roughness of it gives it extra farmhousey appeal!

We cut it down into 5″ strips.Honestly, this one has been years in the making.

Being of Irish decent, I kind of feel like I should know how to make an amazing basic stew just kind of automatically, but I. did.. not.I really thought that if I used my magical crock pot, then that would make it all somehow work out and taste better, but I just kept ending up with tasteless brown mush!

I’ve been messing around with my recipe for the last few years and I think I’ve finally found one that I really love and is still in keeping with my pre-requisites for a good crock pot recipe: It can’t take more than 5 or 10 minutes to throw together, and there is absolutely NO PRE-BROWNING ALLOWED!It seems silly to use an extra pot or frying pan when the whole point of a crock pot recipe is that it should only take one pot, right?