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Magic Plan App: Floor Plans Without Measuring Tapes (aka The Coolest Thing Your Phone Can Do)

I’m trying really hard right now to write this posts without using excessive exclamation points.... 
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Tile 101: The Basics of DIY Tiling (Any Kind, Anywhere)

Once you learn the basic principles behind installing tile you can apply them to any number of projects–... 
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Rustic Wood Wall Art: Part 3

Creating this rustic wood wall art was a simple project when it came to building the panels and thinking... 
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How To Make a Glass Jug Lamp

When I decided to rent an old farm house with a bunch of falling down buildings on the property there... 
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How To Build a Pottery Barn Inspired Vanity

I think the most important thing on the list of stuff you need to build a vanity is the pervasive belief... 
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Joinery 101: Using a Kreg Jig

Interior work brings with it the joy of figuring out how to attach two pieces of wood in a slightly... 
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Chicken Coop Turned Coffee Table

First of all, I am admittedly not a chicken expert (yet) but I’m pretty sure this isn’t... 
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By Tools, For Tools: Quick (and Fun) Wood Toolboxes

During the Great Migration of One-Thousand Tools that has occurred over the last several weeks, it became... 
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Organization 101: DIY File Crates From Pallets

A recurring theme here over the last couple of weeks has been watching me desperately trying to dig... 
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DIY Spice Jar Labels

It might seem a little strange that even though I don’t have a working kitchen (or even really... 
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DIY Video: Building a Custom Door & Jamb (with a lot of people staring at you)

Back when I built the shelving for the closets in the Memorial House, I had this idea about building... 
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DIY House Addition: Building a House From the Ground Up

Building a house takes many things– tools, patience, several cases of beer, and most importantly,... 
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Weekend DIY Picnic Table Project

See this picnic table? I love eating at this thing almost as much as I loved building it. Detached benches,... 
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Out With The Old: A Look Back at the Beautiful Disaster of 2011

Just so we’re clear from the start, the “beautiful” part of 2011 was definitely how... 
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Drywall 101: Drywalling Basics

“Let’s hang and finish some drywall!” Yeah. Here’s my guess at the three most... 
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And Then I Bought a House

No. Not property to build my Hillside Cottage on, but an actual house. A 150 year old brick farmhouse,... 
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Now, With Less Stubbed Toes and Swearing!

It might have taken me the better part of three days to get it under control, but you can’t argue with the results. By the way, pre-addition this wall of…

August 25, 2011 | 8 Comments | Read the Full Article

I Mopped Something & Hell Has Not, In Fact, Frozen Over

Maybe I’ve mentioned once or twice that cleaning isn’t on the list of things I excel at. Also absent from that list: closing cabinet doors, picking up clothes, and doing…

August 24, 2011 | 18 Comments | Read the Full Article

Organization 101: Building Basic Wood Shelves

As it turns out having ten closets in your house isn’t even remotely helpful in keeping your life in order if nine of them don’t have shelving. Apparently the floor…

August 23, 2011 | 7 Comments | Read the Full Article

La Femme Makita, Part Deux

Any of you who were around the site before it was restyled a few months ago may be familiar with this picture: I snapped this pic maybe three years ago…

August 22, 2011 | 9 Comments | Read the Full Article

DIYcation Day 1: So This Is What Sane Feels Like

I’m officially counting today as the start of my DIYcation, also known as “getting my shit together again after a really long period of time where I ran around like…

August 22, 2011 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

Planning For a DIYcation

Many of my fellow powertool junkies will agree, days off from the Actual Real Job aren’t meant for “vacation” so much as they are an excellent excuse to spend more…

August 17, 2011 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

Rustic Wood Wall Art: Part 3

Creating this rustic wood wall art was a simple project when it came to building the panels and thinking up designs, but when it came to pulling the trigger and…

August 15, 2011 | 31 Comments | Read the Full Article

DIY Wrap Up: Things I Didn’t Do Because I Was Sleeping Edition

UPDATE: Now with actual links to the Bob Vila articles (seriously, I have no idea what I’m doing anymore) and the Found Magazine site was down yesterday but should be…

August 12, 2011 | 2 Comments | Read the Full Article

Build a Pottery Barn Inspired Pinboard

I’m working my way through several projects for my home office with the hope that, after a year of living in a garage, they might help me get a handle…

August 10, 2011 | 10 Comments | Read the Full Article

Pins, Pinned, Has Pun

So, yes, I did have a little project ADD relapse a couple of weeks ago and have been playing catch-up with half a dozen of the unfinished projects I started…

August 9, 2011 | 2 Comments | Read the Full Article

Wavy Edged Wood Siding: You Had Me At Hello

People tend to have a visceral reaction to the siding on the Memorial house. They see it, they love it, they ask what it is, then they recoil in horror….

August 8, 2011 | 3 Comments | Read the Full Article

Lunchbreak Study Organization

I’m slowly but surely making some progress on turning the study into an actual place where I can work without the fear of being crushed under piles of paper. What…

August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment | Read the Full Article

Rustic Wood Wall Art: Part 2

See this? This is me making a concerted effort to actually finish one of the projects I started in the last couple of weeks. Stranger things have happened. I’m actually…

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