Projects
Tips and tricks for working with plaster walls – from pulling it down to patching it up.
Mark and Theresa shared a quick fix for repairing basement cracks and how to get started staining wood on NBC’s The 10! Show. View more…
I love home improvement, but some days are better than others, notably, those NOT spent renting, using, and returning a jackhammer to break up concrete…
Mark & Theresa replace the original door on their 100+ year-old American Foursquare. Theresa had been holding on to the original door, as it has…
Lead paint in our homes—just the presence of it—can be dangerous, especially to our kids. And the scary thing is, it’s the dust that you…
Measure for square by making a triangle: A2 + B2 = C2. The bigger the better.
Coping crown molding is awesome, but not all crowns can be coped.
If you notch a joist, you reduce the strength of the entire joist–not just the notched area–to however much wood remains.
Mark & Theresa designed and built the custom wood playset for their two kids and fortunately for us they are sharing the plans and materials…
Here’s one of the awesome things about design: it reinvents things. It takes the common and makes it uncommon. I’ve seen a lot of this…
Sometimes the hardest part about taking care of our homes and the people inside them is getting started. You know you need a new roof,…
