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 myself out from under a mountain of
A recurring theme here over the last couple of weeks has been watching me desperately trying to dig myself out from under a mountain of
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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