Cabinet Veneer

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Upgrading and updating a kitchen is a popular home-improvement project, adding value to a home and making it look more modern, without spending a lot of money. New kitchen cabinets can be very expensive, especially if you need custom sizes. Even replacing the cabinet doors with new doors can be a costly undertaking, as those … Read more

Sam Maloof Rocking Chair

rocking chairs, poarch, wooden

One of the great woodworkers of modern time was a California man named Sam Maloof. Sam’s work is known for lean, graceful lines, with sculptured parts. His joints display beauty as well as strength, as his parts seamlessly blend into one another. His style, which involves a lot of sculpted parts, has been memorialized by … Read more

How to Make a Solar Chicken Coop

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As surprising as it may sound, chickens get cold. At least, they get cold if you happen to live in a part of the country where it gets cold in the winter. Actually, all animals struggle with cold winter weather, just the same as we do. Therefore, if we have those animals, we need to … Read more

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Building a Wargame Table

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Wargamers are a unique breed of people. I know, I used to be one, many years ago. Most wargamers I have known will go to great extents to make their games more real, spending time and money buying characters, building models and creating terrain to play on. This is not a new phenomenon, for I … Read more

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The Ins and Outs of Drawer Slides

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What Are Drawer Slides Drawer slides, sometimes called drawer runners, are device that attach to your drawer to help ensure that the opening and closing motion is fluid. I’m sure we have all experienced opening a stuck drawer, where the friction of the wood prevents the drawer from opening easily. Wood doesn’t like to slide … Read more