How-to

How-To: Customize Your Compost Bin

Compost bins are a perfect way to re-utilize all those kitchen and yard scraps for a new purpose, to help… Read More

February 12, 2013

How-To: Build a Cedar Compost Bin

We love our compost bin. A compost bin is an easy-to-build project that we think does a lot for our… Read More

January 17, 2013

Check Out Extreme How-To Magazine’s January Issue Featuring ‘Crossing Over’ by Mark & Theresa

Mark and Theresa write about designing and building a bridge. And about how building on a volunteer project with Rebuilding Together delivers… Read More

January 13, 2013

Flat Screen TV Installation Tip

The biggest challenge to wall-mounting a flat screen television both securely and exactly where it's best to watch can be… Read More

January 4, 2013

12 Days of Buckets: Holiday Craft

  Decorating for the holidays can take several different kinds of approaches. It can be traditional, themed, crafty, or whatever… Read More

December 19, 2012

How-To: Jack’s Kid Bench

  Jack is a bench-builder if I've ever seen one. And since he is still in his pre-tall years, a… Read More

December 10, 2012

KidStuff: Jack’s Kid Bench

  Bench-building is in my blood. I've been building them since pre-school, where I developed my technique: two wide legs… Read More

December 10, 2012

Kitchen Renovation Mistakes: Flooring

Don't cheap out on flooring. We don't mean don't get the floor you want, we mean install it everywhere in… Read More

November 20, 2012

Kitchen Renovation Mistakes: Toe-kick

For the installer: Details are "custom critical" a term we stole from the FedEx service---not to mention, these are the… Read More

November 13, 2012

Kitchen Renovation Mistakes: Materials

Using lower end materials near a dishwasher can be vexing---especially foils or laminated trim stock instead of solid hardwood. Steam… Read More

November 6, 2012

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