Home Improvement

How To Make A Quadratic Diffuser

The quadratic residue diffusor or Schroeder diffusor (Schroeder was the scientist who pioneered the development) is typically a bo...
How To Make A Tambour Door

To get started, we have to go back two years when I made the corner cabinet for my kitchen. I designed it to include what’s ...
Making Cabinet Doors – Again

Making the big cabinet doors is the final phase of my remodeling project for the front of my shop. I need three and they are built...
How To Make Cabinet Doors

The next phase of my big shop corner remodel is to make and install the doors on the upper cabinets. The cabinet door style is the...
Replacing The Door On My Shop

Over the six years I’ve been here, I’ve been making constant improvements to my shop to make it more comfortable to us...
Wooden Barn Door Hardware

Moving right along with the work I’m doing in my office, next on the list is this closet: The closet itself is unfinished an...
How To Make An Acoustic Ceiling

Moving forward with the improvements to my office, the room acoustics are the next on the list. Along with the video editing, I...
Making Shiplap Wall Panels From Plywood

This is part of an ongoing remodel of my office to make it more comfortable to work in. I actually started kind of at the end by b...
How To Make Frame And Panel Cabinet Doors

With all of the upper cabinets for my kitchen made and installed, I moved on to making the cabinet doors. The style I picked is a ...
Building A Corner Cabinet for the Kitchen

For me, motivation can take a strange path, and this project is a pretty good example. It actually starts with fixing up my shed f...
How To Make Triangular Gable Vents

I’ve been fixing up my garden shed to use for metal working projects and started by putting in an insulated ceiling with lig...
Making A Custom Bathroom Mirror

Continuing work to finish my bathroom, I built the vanity cabinet and stained it a dark colour that would provide some contrast to...
How To Install A Door – Hang A Door

Moving along with the interior finish on my house, I turned my attention to the doors for the ground floor. These need to be done ...
Installing A Tile Countertop

While planning my new kitchen I considered a number of different materials that I could use for the countertops, but like my last ...
Easy To Make Economical Storage Shelves

With the ongoing fixing up of my house, trying to find places to put the various things that take up space inside while I’m ...
Making A Rustic Wood Feature Wall

Now that my house has more or less moved into the interior finishing stage, I’ve given a lot of thought to how I want it to ...
Making Tapered Craftsman Style Columns

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m drawing heavily on American craftsman architecture for the overall look for the exterior...
Rebuilding Stairs And Railing

With the skylight finished, it was time to get the stairs and railing rebuilt. I did some planning in SketchUp, to work out the de...
Making Wooden Soffit Vents

Early on, I decided to do the soffit for the overhangs (eaves) with plywood, rather than the usual perforated vinyl or aluminum pr...