Tag: DIY
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How to Make a Bow
Like you, I have been in self-isolation for the last few days and probably like you, I have been watching lots of tv about how to flip a house and other useful YouTube videos on things like how to make a bow. In this current economic climate I didn’t think it was possible to flip…
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DIY Bread Making Table Update
Update to what I thought was my super clever DIY bread making table. Remember how I said I intentionally made it taller so that I could more comfortably work my bread? Yeah, it was too tall to work at comfortably. So I went back to the plumbing supply store and bought four 8″ sections,…
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DIY Bread Making Table
Yesterday I mentioned the new DIY project I was working on. That project was a DIY Bread Making Table and the good news is that I managed to complete the project before the end of the day yesterday – with the help of my daughter. I started out with a sketch book where I drew…
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New DIY Project
Much to the chagrin of some people in my home, I’ve started another DIY project! Unlike the other DIY projects I’ve completed (yes, I’ve actually successfully completed some of my projects!) this one is being done in our home, NOT at the cabin. More details to follow!
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Woodworking Project Part 2
My woodworking project continues. My latest step was to take my block of wood and find a way to get it “stable on the table” so that I could run it through the bandsaw. Once I had a flat enough surface (I trimmed it with an axe to flatten out the one side) I began…
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The New Kitchen Floor; Plywood Plank Floor
Finally, the kitchen floor update! To cut right to the chase I will say that I put plywood plank floors in our kitchen. Yes, a plywood plank floor.And I have to say, they look and feel incredible. I started by stripping off all the existing flooring – the top layer of crappy looking laminate flooring and…
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My Farmhouse Kitchen Table Continues
I’ve made some progress on my farmhouse kitchen table. Perhaps most importantly, I’ve got the table and parts at home in my garage! As you can see, all the pieces are now glued together, cut to length, cut to width, and planed and sanded to the desired thickness. Did I show you how I took…
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Making a Farmhouse Kitchen Table
I decided to make myself a new “farmhouse style” kitchen table for my cabin from a couple of bug-killed trees I cut down around my cabin years ago. After cutting the trees down, my friend and I used an Alaskan-Sawmill and milled the trees into dimensional lumber. That was 10 or 15 years ago and…
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The DIYZ app: A Kind and Confident Guiding Hand
Disclosure: This post is in collaboration with the DIYZ® app. As always, all opinions of apps and companies that help me complete DIY projects are my own. In the past, if I needed to do a home repair, I would turn to my grandfather for the how-to on any DIY issues I may have run…