The walkout basement can be used for very different purposes. Of the roughly 133 million houses in the United States, about 37 million were built with a basement, giving the homeowner more usable space. In many of those cases, the homes were built without the basement being finished, either to use that space as a … Read more
Through the years, I’ve worked with several table saws, from my dad’s venerable Craftsman to a Delta Unisaw to the portable table saw I used in construction. I learned through all this that the fence is an essential part of any quality table saw. The fence included some essential buts. Most will say that the … Read more
Having a home with a garage provides a lot of options for a family. Besides the obvious possibility of using it to park cars, garages are used as workshops, general storage and to store toys, such as boats and four-wheelers. The only problem is, no matter how big the garage looks when the home is … Read more
Origins of Spurtle The Spurtle is a wooden kitchen utensil that originated in Scotland. As kitchen utensils go, it is one of the simplest ones for everyday life customers to purchase and use, yet performs to serve a very specific purpose extremely well. While other wooden cooking pans and kitchen utensils can and often are … Read more
Sliding cabinet doors aren’t used much in modern cabinetry, but they were a big part of mid-century modern furniture and cabinetry. With the resurgence of popularity in that style amongst the younger generation, knowing how to build cabinets with sliding doors is an advantage. But the advantages of sliding-door cabinets also don’t stop there. Sliding … Read more