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Stephanie won the Arrow Fastener! Her winning entry: “My mom’s woodworking business is is still in the works. She has all of her talent perfected…
Mark says I always bring everything we talk about back to shoes. Perhaps that is true. Whether it’s home furnishings, building products, tools, clothes, dessert,…
Find the best tools and home improvement gear that Mark and Theresa recommend from their 20 years of remodeling homes.
In a switch from our usual tool reviews, two of our residential construction aces take a look at a couple of the new TimberlandPRO work…
Year after year tool companies find ways to make tools better, easier to use, safer, or just more useful. Some years see gradual improvements, but…
We begin our bathroom’s anti-transmogrification by gutting it. The birch paneling (ack!), plaster, lath, strapping–all of it has to go leaving us with the tabula…
A good table saw is essential equipment for getting well-crafted results, keyed in details, and for cutting critical elements required for dialed-in, looks-like-it-grew-there kind of…
Question: An 1890s era home (OK, mansion) in my town has a unique window cut into the roof. It’s slender all of 8 inches wide…
I came up in the trades using the circular saw that the carpenters who hired me used: 7 1/4 inch sidewinders. Re-framing an old house…
Sorry, but I have very little to good to say about no-name snow shovels. I do have a lot of nice things to say about…
After many years fixing and remodeling houses I finally got around to getting a rolling scaffold. Prior to that I used my 4 and 6…
At MyFixitUpLife, we’re lucky to check out cool new products all year long. And 2010 brought some really amazing DIY favorites to our attention. Here’s…
