One of the most compelling reasons to remodel a home is to gain additional living space. Many couples buy their family home shortly after marrying and end up with a home that’s too small for their growing family. This leaves them with two options: sell their home and buy another or find a way to … Read more
Building code requires that all bathrooms be ventilated. There’s a good reason for this and it really doesn’t have anything to do with getting rid of the noxious odors sometimes found there. It’s actually to get rid of moist. Bathrooms are humid places, with the hot water in the shower and tub rapidly increasing the … Read more
Sewing is one of the oldest trades and usually the first sort of cottage industry to emerge in an industrializing society. We all need clothing and the industry that makes that clothing is one of the more essential ones to society. Yet today, that work is carried out by major corporations, with most of the … Read more
Anyone who has ever had to cut plywood for a project, has run across the big problem of working with it; that it chips and splinters along the cut edge, especially when cutting across the face grain of the sheet. This damage is commonly grouped together under the name “tearout,” although woodworkers use other terms … Read more
Wood serving trays have been in use for thousands of years, ever since mankind started serving food on wood. While the style and material of those trays have changed considerably, modern wood trays still maintain the same sort of functionality as they did in ancient times, even though the shape may have changed. Modern trays … Read more