I was “blog hopping” this morning and came across another “how to” that caught my eye. It was about DIY whiteboards. I have a large (48″x60″) whiteboard in my workshop which I use for project notes. I knew I would miss it once I moved since I had decided not to pack/store/ship it. I also [...]

I’ve been following the Mala saga over at RTTC. Now it’s time for me to dive in an attempt my first Mala. I will follow the instructions as closely as I can with one exception - the Guru bead.
I am taking a lesson from my grandfather; “when working with odd shaped pieces of wood or [...]

There is not too much I can do at the moment on the farmhouse. If all goes as planned, the steel arrives in less than two weeks. It will still be a while before I get my shop out of storage.
I have designed the bathroom as a wetroom. Wetrooms are pretty popular in [...]

For the farmhouse project, I will be building the kitchen. One of the big tasks will be building the cabinets. I learned my lesson from my last kitchen and will have few if any base cabinet doors and shelves. Instead, I will have drawers - lots of drawers.
There are some very nice high-end hardware for [...]

I am planning to build my kitchen cabinets. Part of the motivation is I enjoy spending time in my workshop. Part of hte motivation is cost - as the farmhouse construction budget seems to have taken on extraordinary amounts of helium and is drifting toward the stratosphere. This post is not able any of that. [...]