Katie Marks
Katie Marks is a California-based author who loves finding cool life hacks, sharing them with friends, and diving headlong into craft projects. If there is a garden somewhere, you can probably find her outside playing in it. She also enjoys cooking, reading, and being a full-time nerd. Don’t be fooled by her profile picture: She is a person, not a vegetable, who has written an incredible amount of insightful articles for Networx.com.
Among her written works, Katie has written about Earthships, which are highly sustainable buildings created entirely from recycled and natural materials, typically integrated together in a seamless whole (see her article “Extreme Earthships in Extreme Places” for more details: https://www.networx.com/article/extreme-earthships-in-extreme-places). She has also written about dressing up a home with wainscoting, in which she recommends adventuring into using unusual materials such lincrusta, hemp, sewn paper, fiber, and mosaics, if you are wanting to achieve a more unique look than that of wood paneling.
(https://www.networx.com/article/dress-up-with-wainscoting).
For those wanting recommendations for the best paint colors for the exterior of their home, I’d suggest checking out Katie’s article entitled “Go Bold With Exterior Color” (https://www.networx.com/article/go-bold-with-exterior-color), where she provides images and slideshows of homes that take advantage of the more saturated parts of the color wheel. This article provides exciting ideas for color schemes for those who have too big of a personality to settle for painting the exterior of their home in a dull grey or beige hue.
Katie also gives simple day-to-day tips for activities such as storing food properly (https://www.networx.com/article/store-food-right) and starting gardens (https://www.networx.com/article/gardeners-start-your-seedlings), where you can really see her passion for gardening shine through her writing.
See more of Katie’s articles below for more life hacks, home improvement tips and gardening how-tos!
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 16, 2013
You know how they say it takes one to know one? Researchers in Australia took this to a new level recently with the development of a water filter based on bugs and slime that cleans...
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 13, 2013
I want to go to Singapore just to stay in this hotel. The Parkroyal Hotel Pickering is not your average luxury hotel, although it has all the fittings you'd expect, including stunning...
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 12, 2013
Mmm, milk. For those who aren't allergic or refraining for ethical/religious reasons, milk is pretty awesome. But you don't just have to put it in your mouth (and there are uses yet...
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 12, 2013
I love the look of creative painted furniture projects. Truly crafty people can come up with outstanding stuff, and their projects can be such an inspiration. Even better, they're usually...
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 11, 2013
When you're building a house from the ground up, you have a lot of important choices to make, and you get to make some key decisions that will affect life in the home for the rest of...
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 11, 2013
Paper bags have a whole litany of fun and interesting uses beyond the obvious. I took a look at our friends over at Hometalk to pick out some of the most creative to get your inspirational...
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 10, 2013
Some home improvement tasks are best left to the pros, unless you're very confident, very skilled, and very ready to get them done right. If you fail, you'll find yourself with problems...
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 09, 2013
Ah, the sound of happy clucking in the backyard, the pleasure of seeing chickens sun themselves in the garden, and the joy of knowing that your soil is being thoroughly worked over...
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 09, 2013
Annuals and most vegetables have one distinct disadvanage: at the end of the season, they're gone, poof, and you have to start all over again next season or next year. That can be a...
Posted by Katie Marks
| Sep 06, 2013
Ugh, pastels, right? Watery, bland, utterly boring, and completely beyond redemption. No one likes pastels, except maybe little old ladies who have frou-frou living rooms filled with...