Projects

How hard can it be to add three pieces of wood to a door jamb? Um…Check this video to see how I trim a door…

A tool pioneer I know once told me that tool brands ‘innovate in a very small space’. What does that mean? It means that small—and…

Replacing a hose bib should be—should be—easy. Often it is. Hurl in the old house wild card, however, and there can be more than just…

Wood wainscoting is one of my favorite interior finishes. It’s fun, clean, and all carpentry. And it looks sensational. In this video I run through…

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I love it when my home fixes are real simple. And I hate it when someone says it’s easy and then it’s not easy. The…

I haven’t used skulls in my Halloween decor before, and with my son’s current obsession with jump scares and creepy things, the idea of using skulls became a natural fixation for this Halloween.

In my world, I have two versions of how to build a fence: 1) Laser-straight and awesome-looking. 2) NOT laser-straight and NOT awesome-looking. This blog…

Home maintenance, to me, is about way more than caulking windows or sprucing up the lawn before cold weather hits. So much of it is…

One of my very favorite home improvement projects is building a deck. I’ve built many—along with fences, playgrounds and other sweet outdoor stuff. I love…