Category: Home Improvement
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A cabinet for art supplies and arf supplies
This weekend, I finished building a craft cabinet to hold all of our kids’ art supplies; plus, it has a built-in faucet for refilling our dog’s water dish so we don’t have to carry it to the sink every day. The faucet for the dog dish is spring-loaded, so it only runs while it’s being…
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I made a patio with stones mined from my backyard
This is the story of how I turned this: into this: and how it only took me 411 days. It all started when I pried some flagstones out of the hill next to our house. They were sticking out of the grass, and I thought I’d use them for a path somewhere. As I pulled…
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Today’s CNC Carving: A towel rack that says Towels
What do you hang your towels on? A plain old towel bar? Ha. A hook on the back of the door? Sad. You drape them over the shoulders of a mannequin like a cape? Ok that’s pretty cool. But what would be even cooler would be to hang your towels on a towel rack that…
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Abandoned workspace
Took this picture of the just-drywalled kitchen after calling it quits for the day, and it turned out to have a really eerie feel (which I love).
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Own a piece of history
For the low, low price of $189,900, you could own this piece of Web software history: This is the very building where I worked on such projects as Slashdotter, Netscape Navigator 9, OPML Support for Firefox, ScribeFire, the Digg Top Users list, and most recently, Twits Like Me. If you act now, I’ll even throw…
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Software isn’t the only thing I build
Christina and I just finished remodeling the stoop in front of our house. What used to be crumbling concrete steps covered in peeling outdoor carpet is now a wider and more inviting stairway complete with flower boxes and new handrails. Except for the handrail parts, we designed and built it ourselves from scratch (scratch being…
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America’s Next Top Remodel
My wife and I recently remodeled our back entryway, partly because it needed it and partly as preparation for remodeling our kitchen. We replaced 25 year-old linoleum with laminate flooring, stripped off the textured wallpaper, painted the walls and doors (after repairing some pretty big holes and cracks hidden by the wallpaper), and put up…