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  • How To Make Your Own Manger

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    The weather is turning colder, and Christmas will be here before you know it. This year, you can add your own homemade manger to your decorations!  Here’s how: Here’s what my finished manger looks like: Step one:  Get some wood.  The look and feel is totally up to you, but I went with some rougher…

  • The Cat Condo

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    So, my sister-in-law Jenni and her husband Ray have a cat, Petey.  Though I am allergic to cats and thus keep my distance from Petey, by all accounts he is a cheery and delightful cat worthy of all the affection and adoration that can and should be heaped upon him.  So over Thanksgiving weekend we…

  • Matchbox Car Wooden Garage

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    This past weekend my son and I built a little garage for him to use to store all his matchbox cars.  I built the entire thing out of scrap lumber laying around in my shop.  I did take the time to sketch out some plans, which are posted below these pictures of the construction process…

  • Entry Hall Floor Part 2

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    I recently ripped out the tile floor from my entry hall, and prepped it for my new wood floor. The wood we used was a pre-finished acacia from Lumber Liquidators.  For those who may be interested in all the technical specs of the wood and floor, here are some details: Botanical Name: Acacia Decurrens Janka…

  • Entry Hall Floor

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    Seems I can never just leave my house as is – I’ve nearly always got some project or other going on.  Building shelves, adding a storage room, working on a garden, adding stuff to my shop, building towel racks, repairing stuff the kids break, etc. The latest project is replacing the floor in my entry…

  • Clock Resurrection

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    Until this past Friday we had a pretty cool clock hanging on the wall of our catwalk over the family room.  The face was composed of a small (about 4″ diameter) round block of wood stained a dark cherry with brushed aluminum bars (about 11″ long) set into it in a sunburst pattern – a…

  • New Family Room Shelves

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    Those of you who know me personally know that I like to think I’m pretty handy with power tools. Ok, so mostly I take big pieces of wood and make them into smaller pieces of wood. I’ve built lots of stuff around the house – storage shelves in the garage, a workbench, some invisible shelves,…

  • Invisible Shelves

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    The other day my wife mentioned an article on wikihow that explained how to make “invisble shelves”.  I have to admit that I am a sucker for simple and innovative projects such as this one, so when she also mentioned that she’d like something like that for her recipe books, off to the local thrift…

  • Coughin’

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    I like to pretend that I know a little something about woodworking, and occasionally even try to build something that won’t be condemned by the urban housing authority.  Since it is nearing Halloween and all, I thought it was amusing to see a new story pop up on wikihow about how to make your own…