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Kids room decorating ideas for baseball fans
2015_Boy Cave_Bat Shelf_After 2

Attention parents of baseball fans: Check out this kids room decorating idea, purpose-built for your favorite baseball fan. FACT: Your children want your time, not…

Instructables: Project Question Answered
Workshop organization -- Instructables

So we’re really lucky and get to share our DIY and projects with the awesomeness known as Instructables. And one of the things we love…

8 Stair-age designs to save space
Understairs Seating

 Stair-age [Stair-age] – stairs that contain storage. We have found some amazing designs that will help save space in almost any home. Some stair-age is…

Grey is the new white?

Why grey? The color has been surfacing as an increasingly talked-about color in home finishes lately. And I have a few ideas why. To its…

FixitUp Find: Door, Drawer, & More
Wellborn Cabinet Henlow Square Inset in hickory.

  When I enter  a kitchen—especially a new one—the cabinets are among the last things I look at. Reason is, I want to savor them….

How to Build Clutter Cutter Storage for Garage, Shop, Shed
Clutter Cutter Garage and Tool Storage Solution

This easy-to-build Clutter Cutter is a simple, fun DIY storage solution for indoors or out.

Kitchen Island Installation Blunders
Installing A Kitchen Island

Question: What blunders might I expect—or try to avoid—installing a kitchen island? Answer: The main blunder is mis-sizing it. Just because a certain combination of…

Build an Inexpensive Firewood Rack

I come by my nickname, “the 2-by-Guy,” honestly. Whenever I’m scoping out new tools as an editor for HGTVPro, in the back of my mind…

Closet Shelves

 Closet space is one of the most under utilized but totally upgradeable spaces in our homes—particularly linen and hall closets. In the houses I’ve worked…

DIY Storage

Garages, woodshops and workshops are perennially starved for space and organization—and mine is one of them. It’s forever jam-packed with tools, materials and work surfaces…

MyFixitUpLife talk show: Eric Stromer & Storage Solutions w/ Merillat
Eric Stromer

Lazy Susan is on high alert, because she’s got some competition in corner. Her lazy days of having a corner on the market are over….

Cabinet Installation and Under-Cabinet Lighting

We like under-cabinet lights and specced them for our latest kitchen reno. Problem is, typical under-cabinet lights are placed beneath the shallow cabinet carcass (usually…