Mark’s blog
Need to update your shed? Here’s how to update a shed with a ramp and some gardening features in a weekend.
Tool reviews come in many forms. Since our phones are with us during projects as anything from flashlight to ‘what do I do now?!’ machines,…
I love woodworking projects that blend materials. This one combines wood and copper to create a bathroom towel holder. This is for a hand towel…
This is one of those woodworking projects that started as one thing—a raised garden planter—then took on a new life as the cooler deck cooler….
I love tool reviews and hope they help you buying your next pro-grade or DIY home improvement hole maker or board shortener or thing measurer….
I call woodworking projects I make with regular carpentry tools ‘workbench woodworking’. I call working with 100-plus year old 3×10 lumber AWESOME! So what else…
Got the I-don’t-want-to-do-this Spring cleaning blues? Check out these tips and tools to make life easier when you just can’t live with the built-up gunk…
Pro, weekend DIYer, or somewhere in between, you probably find your miter saw is the center of what you do. It is for me most…
An old paint brush has a lot more uses than just slathering on paint. I use them all the time on remodeling and renovation projects….
Carpenters have lots of tricks: One of my favorites is how to measure hard-to-measure things, as shown in this video. Good for DIY too, this…
I love pallet projects. And I love my daughter, so I made this special box just for her. My daughter is growing up. Quickly. And,…
Lots of people make the same mistakes—me included—finishing drywall. Typically, we: – Use too much joint compound. Joint compound (sometimes called ‘spackle’ or ‘mud’ in…
