As a designer, I often counsel people, "You can't do it all at once." Okay some can, but most of us can not. And we did replace the majority of the windows...
Fall by far has been my best season for diy. Ironic perhaps, the easy, cooler temperatures setting in, but a sorta kick in the pants somehow. I mean – I inevitably find...
The most important things to remember when you’re refinishing furniture with paint is that several things need to work together to ensure your success—a stain-blocking primer, a paint with a durable finish,...
The zen master, an artist in aluminum, Tom Struble pointed me to this technique. While Stephen R Christopher called out the term "Brick Bend" for me, it was Tom who suggested that...
This front yard, when the home was purchased, had a rather medium-sized and unruly tree smack dab in the middle of it. In an effort to make the home more curb-appealing, Mrs....
This particular house, a Colonial (I guess), sits less than a mile from ours. After a short shopping period, she purchased it for a near rock bottom price . . . after...
It can be a fun project, a great investment, or even a good way to settle into your forever home without spending a fortune to get what you want. But before you...
Now, it would have been lovely not to have disturbed the grass’s edge while installing this border. But of course that was not happening. I needed soil both behind and in front...
Much like a wall in a home can provide partition, and in some cases, it can be bearing. It always includes such things as plumbing or electrical, and it is contained by...
Moving forward with their basement remodel, I told them that this particular faucet was what is known as a centerset faucet. That is – the faucet is made for a top that...
Re-screening is actually a pretty easy diy procedure, and especially since the only tools you really need are a screen/spline tool (like the one pictured and not my hoopty one) and a...
This tile was thick at a solid 1/8” and rigid, much like what I know as Resilient Tile, but lacking much of its signature heavy-fill and graining. It was “dry backed” and...
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