Fountains are beautiful additions to any landscaping design, bringing water, the element of life, to your yards. With so many fountain choices at Blackhawk Hardware's Garden Center, you'll be sure to find just the one that suits your design style. We carry traditional, contemporary, whimsical, nature-inspired, and more styles of garden fountains. Whether you're prominently [...]
The weather in Charlotte has been simply fantastic and so of course cook-outs are on everyone's mind. And what better way to feed a crowd than with some smoked Carolina pulled pork BBQ? We got ourselves some pork butt, rubbed a nice rub on it, let it rest in the fridge overnight, and smoked it [...]
Have you noticed that things are a little stale in the bed room? You've gone in and out of the same room for years and things have gotten a little boring? From time to time I like looking at a room with some scrutiny to make sure elements are still matching and don't look dated. [...]
It is spring cleaning time and Blackhawk Hardware has all the cleaning solutions you'll need. Our cleaning department will make it at lot easier for you to make your home sparkly clean. We carry all the common cleaning products and gadgets you have come to love and then some. Take a look at just one [...]
Pruning can be beneficial to shrubs and serves to encourage new plant growth, clean out dead or diseased parts, and maintain a shrub's shape or size. For many a shrub, late winter is an ideal time for pruning. With February upon us, now is a good time to trim back quite a few of the [...]
In addition to this year's color of the year, Shadow, Benjamin Moore has curated a whole pallet of on-trend paint colors that give design direction for 2017. The collection encompasses 23 swoon-worthy hues. In today's blog post we're going to feature some of these gorgeous shades for your inspiration. One color that immediately stood out [...]
Baking pizza on the Big Green Egg had always seemed pretty intimidating to us and so we are happy to report that it was pretty darn easy! And not only was it easy but it was so tasty, it brought back delicious memories from our recent trip to Italy. Now you can enjoy that wood-fired [...]
We're known as the best place in Charlotte for houseplants for a reason, our garden center is stocked with indoor plants that not only help purify air but also make great decorative elements in any room. Air Purification In the 1980s NASA conducted a study (read it here) to explore if common houseplants are improving [...]
It's that time of year and even though we're used to somewhat mild winter days here in the Carolinas, winter storms are not unusual for the Charlotte area. Remember the that storm pretty effectively shut down most of Charlotte two years ago? Many driveways and sidewalk sections in our Dilworth neighborhood were still snow and [...]
True to the phrase 'out with the old and in with the new', Benjamin Moore has selected an on-trend color of the year for 2017 that could not have been any more different from 2016's if it tried. If you remember our post from last year, the company had chosen a timeless white, Simply White, [...]
