I've spent years making stuff. I renovated our entire house, built climbing walls, tree houses, and decks. But I had never designed and built a complete structure from the ground…
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I had never heard of a noodle grabber until recently. Turns out it's that weird pasta spoon thing with the teeth on the side that helps you pick up and…
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I'd been fighting a losing battle with my desk ever since I built it. Every morning I'd clear it off, trying to keep things minimal and clean, but by lunch…
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I picked up this weird aluminum flight case at a yard sale a while back, and honestly had no clue what the thing inside was supposed to be. The original…
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I needed a table for our new poolside lounge chairs, but not just any table would work. These chairs sat really low to the ground, so whatever I built had…
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I got a little carried away at the end of summer clearance sales. When I saw pool noodles marked down to 50 cents each, something clicked in my brain. These…
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Last week I installed some sliding doors to separate our music room from the rest of the house. But looking at them every day, I realized they were pretty bland.…
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I had been putting off renovating two rooms in our house for way too long, and it all came down to one thing: our piano. If you've never dealt with…
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I had a problem. Not the kind where I'm out of ideas - I've got a huge list of projects I want to tackle. The real issue was that every…
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My LEGO collection has been a lifelong obsession. I've kept just about every set since childhood, and they were creating a storage nightmare in my office. Those boxes stacked against…
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