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How To Build a Simple Tray to Expand Your Deck
DIY Plans for an Easy Handrail Serving Tray Build this simple serving tray to sit on top of your deck handrails and create more space for food and drinks on a small deck while entertaining outside! A beginner DIY project you’ll use for many years!
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How to Paint a Door to Look Like Wood
Changing the Color of our Fiberglass Door If you have a fiberglass door, you can paint it to look like stained wood with these few simple steps! And it only takes a couple of hours. Materials English Oak Base Coat* Honey Oak Finish Coat* quality paint brush* OR Giani Honey Oak kit*
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DIY Kid Height Keepsake
Quick Way to Track Kids’ Growth Each New Year Easy project to measure your children’s growth each year with this keepsake chart that can be tucked away when not in use! Growing up, my dad always insisted on marking my sisters’ and my height. We usually ended up doing it sometime around Christmas or New Years because it was an easy milestone to remember. We did it on the doorstop inside our hallway closet. Now, my parents are building a new house and planning to move sometime this year. So they’ll have to cut the doorstop out to take our growth chart with them! Since my husband and I don’t…
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How To Remove Latex Paint
Removing paint from your jeans All you need are 2 things you probably already have laying around your house to remove dried latex paint from your clothes! Materials rubbing alcohol* scrub brush* old toothbrush See, that’s it! I hate changing into clothes to do a project and prefer to wear whatever I already have on, so this is not my first pair of pants that have been ‘decorated’ with paint before! And most certainly won’t be the last, no matter how careful I am!
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DIY Live Edge Floating Shelves
How To Build Shelves with a Live Edge How to select boards, prep, seal and hang rough sewn wood for decorative shelves in a bathroom. Materials cedar boards 3 inch corner brackets* sander polyurethane* spray paint* (stain bronze) If you’ve never seen the episode from Today’s Homeowner where Dad and I have an old cedar tree cut into 1 inch planks, here’s the link to watch it now! We had to tear down the tree from my front yard because it was all over the roof and a hazard to the safety of my house. After it sat behind my garage for about a year, we drove it to a…
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DIY Artwork Display Wire
Inexpensive Way to Hang Kids’ Art Projects A quick trip down the hardware aisle and you’ll have all you need to create a a simple display for your kids’ or grandkids’ artwork and school projects! Materials Everything you need for this project cost less than $10! Except for the kids. They cost A LOT more than that.🤣 <–that’s me cracking myself up! 1/16 inch steel cable kit* wire cutters* cup hooks* cute clothespins* or these* cute kids😊
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Pink and Neutral Baby Girl Nursery
Simple Updates to Create Girl Nursery A few changes we made to turn our former hand-me-down, boy nursery into a fresh, pink nursery fit for a tiny princess! Paint Is Great When we found out we were having a boy in late 2016, we didn’t bother painting our then guest room because it was already blue! In fact, most of Mister Gus’s first room was thrown together with what we had around because I felt like I had just finished his big sister’s nursery. So this time around when we found out we were having a girl, the first and only thing I KNEW I wanted to do was paint…
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How Not to Hang Wallpaper
Lessons I Learned While Hanging Wallpaper I made a few mistakes hanging wallpaper for the first time. And I’m sharing them with you so you don’t have to make the same ones! Have Plenty to Go Around I purchased my wallpaper many years ago at a local Goodwill store for around $5. I bought it to use in the back of bookshelves or some other small space as an accent. When it came time to update our 3rd bedroom as a girl nursery, I thought it’d be a sweet, subtle accent on the side of the room with the closets. But since it was old, I’m not even sure it was…
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Fireplace Mantel Printable Plans
Free Printable Plans for Fireplace Mantel 3 years ago on this day, I published an episode on building a beautiful fireplace mantel. Unfortunately, it was a rather large project, despite its appearance, which left a lot of information unshared. BUT today I’m remedying that situation with FREE PRINTABLE PLANS!
