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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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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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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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Make a Roof Pitch Guess-timator

Make a Roof Pitch Guess-timator

This simple little device represents the kind of creative thinking that’s brought us to the point of living in houses (with roofs) and not in caves. Duane Mackey designs home additions, so he came up with this brilliant idea that lets you estimate the pitch of a roof safety from terra firma. He’s posted the [...]

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Big Red Barn Dance – Part 3

Big Red Barn Dance – Part 3

Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for… Today, Lee & Katelynn show off the beautiful results of all their hard work and creative use of “treasures” in the conclusion of this 3-part series. You can catch up on the back story here in Part 1. Enjoy! – Rick Decorating to suit the venue With [...]

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Big Red Barn Dance – Part 2

Big Red Barn Dance – Part 2

If you’re just tuning in, Lee & Katelynn, a couple of young engineers, took on the challenge of holding their wedding reception in a barn filled with 50 years of accumulated “stuff”. You can catch up on the story here in Part 1. Today, Lee gets into the nitty gritty of whitewashing the barn interior [...]

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Big Red Barn Dance – Part 1

Big Red Barn Dance – Part 1

As I mentioned in my Stonehaven Life 2012 Preview, Lee & Katelynn, a couple of young and energetic engineers, took on a mission last year that some of us (like me, and apparently Lee’s father) would have likely dismissed as “crazy”. Today, Lee lays the groundwork of how they transformed a junk-filled barn into a [...]

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Stonehaven Life 2012 Preview

Stonehaven Life 2012 Preview

Well, now that we’ve polished off the last of the turkey and we’re scrounging around in the bottom layer of holiday chocolates, it’s time to contemplate the year ahead. 2011 was hectic for some of us and a relentless economic challenge for many others. We were "#Occupied" and pre-occupied by an unprecedented wave of protests, [...]

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