Building a Trash Can Pad :: Another Landscape Challenge Solved
Building a Trash Can Pad or Stand, is much like installing a paver patio - just on a smaller scale. Both why and how I built this stand using scrap 4 x...
Tag Archives: Salvage
Before You Thrift or Junk, Salvage By *Shopping The House*
Shopping the House – searching your house for something that is laying around, taking up precious storage space, and that in its present unused state could maybe help finish (or maybe it...
Inside the Trend :: The Pros and Cons of Reclaimed Wood
The use of reclaimed wood isn’t a new concept, but it’s seen a surge in popularity especially with the green building and remodeling boom. Reclaimed lumber is simply wood with a past...
The Four P’s of Refinishing Furniture with Paint :: How to Paint a Table
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,...
DIY Paint Project Ideas: One Can of Paint, 5 Things to Do With It
It’s always good to have a little paint left over from a recent paint project for just-in-case touch-ups. But when you have a bulk of leftover paint to spare, why not put...
Installing a Door Slab & a Glass Knob, Mortised Style LockSet
We finally decided on a single raised-panel door. This post covers installing a door, including installing a salvaged antique mortised-style lockset. Includes Videos :: Routing for Hinges in a Door Slab, plus...
Repurposed Shelf Brackets from a Chair :: Installing a Shelf to Hold TV Components
I wasn't necessarily digging on the TV consoles, credenzas, crates, shelving, brackets and etceteras I found in our price range (read: at many of the more popular home (furnishing) stores). So I...
How to Select an Interior Door (Building Moxie Style)
I was naked . . . and stepping into the shower when she started, “Are you crazy?!”. . . but she continued, “I mean – do I really have to have you...
Interior Design on a Budget :: Focus on a Feature Wall, Furniture & Flooring
Young families also may find it difficult to find the extra money to change their homes and add luxuries such as reclining sofas. But to make a difference, you don’t have to...
The Fancy Painters are Here! :: What to Know about Faux Finishing & Decorative Painting
When asked What do you do? and I invariably answer I'm a faux finisher, I sometimes get a quizzical look. I may follow up with I'm an artist...a decorative painter but I...
Removing Rust from Hardware that Cannot Be Removed :: Options
I have worked rusty hinges with either steel wool and/or sandpaper. In extreme cases, I have even loaded up my detail sander and went at it that way. There are a few...
Paint Removal :: Using a Professional ReFinisher
So . . . you might have read my rant on hastily painted hardware. We removed the shutters from the building before painting its body. Twenty-four windows on the house proper makes...