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Hedlund Hardware in Broad Ripple: Ninety Years of Having the One Part You Need
There are two kinds of independent hardware stores left in Indianapolis. One is a destination: large, bright, seven days a week, with events and a restaurant. The other is a room packed floor to ceiling with things, where the aisles are narrow and somebody behind the...
The Greater Brownsburg Chamber of Commerce: A Guide for Residents and Homeowners
Most people never think about their local chamber of commerce. It is one of those organizations that sits in the background of a town, doing work that only becomes visible when you go looking for it. For a homeowner in Brownsburg, there is one specific reason it...
Nature’s Choice in Brownsburg: A Garden Center Built Around Outdoor Living
There is a stretch of State Road 267 between Brownsburg and Avon where a garden center sits back from the road with a small pond out front. People stop to feed the fish. That is not usually why they came, but it is frequently what they remember. Nature's Choice has...
Country Harmony in Brownsburg: A Garden Center and Gift Shop Since 1974
Country Harmony opened in Brownsburg in 1974. To put that in perspective, the town had roughly a fifth of the population it has now, and most of the subdivisions its customers live in today were still farm ground. Fifty two years later it is still on North Green...
How to Clean, Seal & Maintain Your Paver Patio: The Complete Care Guide
A paver patio is close to the lowest maintenance outdoor surface you can build. There is no staining schedule like a wood deck and no resealing requirement like a concrete drive. Left completely alone it will still be there in 30 years. But left completely alone it...
Patio Paver Calculator & Size Guide: How to Measure, Plan & Estimate Materials
Ordering materials is the part of a patio project where a small arithmetic mistake turns into a second delivery fee and a lost weekend. The math itself is not hard. What trips people up is that the same phrase means two different things, the waste factor changes with...
Paver Patio Base Prep, Drainage & Leveling: Essential Technical Guide for a Long-Lasting Patio
Nobody admires a base. It gets buried on day two and never seen again, which is exactly why it is where corners get cut and where nearly every failed patio traces back to. There are really only four technical decisions underneath a paver patio: what the base is made...
Paver Patio Feature Ideas: Fire Pits, Retaining Walls, Pergolas, Seating Walls & More
The patio is the floor. The features are what make people stay out there after dinner. They are also where budgets get away from homeowners, because a fire pit and a seating wall and a pergola can each cost more than the surface they sit on. Worth knowing before you...
Types of Patio Pavers Compared: Concrete, Brick, Stone, Porcelain & More. Which Is Best?
Every paver looks good in a showroom. The differences show up four winters later, when one surface still looks new, one has faded a shade, and one has a hairline crack running through three stones near the downspout. A paver is simply a manufactured or quarried unit...
Can You Put Pavers Over Concrete? How to Overlay or Extend Your Existing Patio
Yes, you can lay pavers over a concrete patio. Whether you should depends almost entirely on the slab you already have. Done over a sound slab, an overlay is the best value in hardscaping. No excavation, no spoil hauling, no base building, and the project takes days...