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Are you looking for a way to sort of spruce up the exterior of your home where you can
change out with the season? Got one for you. You watched us design and build this house
in 150 days, but the work is far from over. We're about to jump into my favorite part
of the process of bringing all this together. Join me for an exclusive look right here on
eHow Home. As you'll recall, when we designed the house I really wanted window boxes on
the upper story. Those two dormer windows really needed them. So I had Tony custom build
a pair of window boxes to fit there, and we designed them where grow boxes would fit into
them. However, now that we're into fall, well, I don't want to plant anything up there, but
I thought, what a great place to do a display of pumpkins. They fit with our fall decor
and they're very festive. Now what will happen after Thanksgiving, we'll shift over into
the holiday season, and what I can do is take the pumpkins away and fill those window boxes
with all kinds of greenery and all kinds of holly berries and things like that. So that
will take us into the new year. In the meantime, I have planted bulbs in the grow boxes and
they'll be dropped in just before spring and that whole front will be filled with tulips.
Not a bad idea, huh? What I love about these window boxes is Tony built them out of a Meritech,
which is the manmade material that we used as the trim on the house. You see, that stuff
has a 50 year warranty. So those window boxes are gonna last for a long time. Hey, if you
have ideas for window boxes, I'd love to hear about them. And make sure you subscribe to
eHow Home.