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Lighting Tips for Photographing your DIY Projects

Lighting Tips for Photographing your DIY Projects

In my previous article a little while back – 5 Reasons to Photograph Your DIY Projects – I suggested several good reasons why you should take progress photos at various stages of your home reno or woodworking projects. Now I’ll share a few simple photography lighting tips that will help you end up with better [...]

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Cat Tree Plans and Ideas

Cat Tree Plans and Ideas

Our four-legged family members have become an integral part of our lives and we’ll do almost anything to make them happy. And by “them” of course, I really mean “us”. Here’s a statistic that will blow your mind. In 2011, in the worst economy in decades, US households spent $50.96 billion on their pets. Of [...]

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5 Reasons to Photograph Your DIY Project

5 Reasons to Photograph Your DIY Project

Odds are most of you reading this article either have a digital camera or a cell phone that can take pictures – maybe both. This is the new reality that allows us to document our lives in ways we never would have 10 or 20 years ago. We get instant results on colour displays that [...]

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3 Door & Window Jamb Extensions

3 Door & Window Jamb Extensions

A couple a weeks ago I wrote about the basics of how to make window jamb extensions. Today, in part 2, I’m going to illustrate 3 three different real life door and window "jambs" that I had to deal with when I trimmed out a mudroom addition a few years ago. I’ve included a section [...]

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Tips for Resawing with a Bandsaw

Tips for Resawing with a Bandsaw

If you ever wondered why it’s so hard to resaw large pieces of stock on the bandsaw – you’re about to find out. Engineer/woodworker Matthias Wandel builds woodworking tools out of wood – the kind of tools most of us buy – so we can build stuff out of wood. He’s written a great article [...]

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Dual-Flush Toilet Duel – Caroma vs Pegasus

Dual-Flush Toilet Duel - Caroma vs Pegasus

Several years ago we replaced our two old water-guzzling toilets and installed water-saving, dual-flush toilets. You’re thinking, a toilet’s a toilet right? Well sort of. They may look about the same, but performance can be dramatically different from one style or manufacturer to the next. Why replace working toilets? We really didn’t have to think [...]

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How to Make Window Jamb Extensions

How to Make Window Jamb Extensions

Details on jamb extensions for windows and doors seems to be one of those areas that gets glossed over in the DIY how-to arena. There’s lots of information online about how to install windows and doors, much of it showing a pre-hung door or window with a jamb that is just the right depth to [...]

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How to Clean Rusty Metal Parts

How to Clean Rusty Metal Parts

If you’re one of those hardy types that enjoys scrounging through piles of rusty metal, looking for useful pieces to recycle, then you’re gonna love this. John Todd likes to make things out of old rusty machine parts – you know, the industrial stuff that’s built to last. Years of experience He’s learned a lot [...]

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DIY Gender Trends

DIY Gender Trends

DIY Home Improvement and woodworking is pretty much a man’s world. Right? Nope. A pair of surveys show a surprising shift in who’s more likely to wear the tool belt in modern households. Ladies doing more DIY Bosch conducted a survey in Britain, France and Germany and discovered an increasing percentage of women are taking [...]

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3D Printers – DIY Custom Manufacturing

3D Printers – DIY Custom Manufacturing

Last week in Part 1, I explored the development of high quality 3D printers, already in widespread use by industrial designers. As with most technologies, the costs are starting to come down to the point where 3D printers are now entering the home user market, allowing you and me to create objects we never could [...]

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