Welcome back to our custom media cabinet series!  If you’ve been following along, so far we’ve unveiled our concept design and dimensioned the face frames.  In today’s post, we’re going to design and dimension the cabinet box portion of the media cabinet.  We’re nearly done this drawing and dimensioning phase of the project and I […]

Hope everyone had an enjoyable and restful weekend!  Last week we started the design work on our custom media cabinet by constraining our overall dimensions and making a rough drawing of how it should look.  Today, we’re going to pickup where we left off and do some detailed design work starting with the face frames. […]

Very happy to be diving into another carpentry project.  If you’re new to our blog, last spring we made a built-in from scratch and installed it in our sitting room.  This time around we’re building a custom media cabinet to match.  Over the course of the next few weeks, we’re going to show our readers […]

I had high hopes for today’s post.  I thought I had learned from my mistakes enough to get this one right.  You were supposed to stop by today and see a black, concrete planter on our front porch freshly adorned with festive orange mums. Not so much. Instead of being stuffed with fall flowers, this […]

If you caught yesterday’s post, you know that Koostik is giving away one of their $95 Walnut Original models to one of our lucky readers. *****THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED***** Koostik’s designs amplify the music from an iPhone, iPad or iPad Mini 10 to 20 decibels without electronics. Their models come in a variety of […]

This week we have some exciting news.  On Tuesday, we’re hosting a Giveaway sponsored by Koostik.  If you’re not familiar with Koostik, they make beautiful all-wood docking stations for iPhones, iPads and iPad Mini’s.  They’ll be giving away one of their Walnut Original models valued at $95 to one of our readers! Here’s what it looks like: […]

It’s finally starting to get a little chilly around here.  I’m not calling it Fall yet though.  I’ll wait until the official start of Fall before I give up on summer.  I have one week left.  I’m going to enjoy it.  In the meantime, we finally finished up our garage improvement series that we started […]

This post stinks.  Well, our trash cans do anyway.  Before we wrap up our garage improvement series, I felt I needed to go where no home blogger has gone before and talk about the trash.  There are two types of people out there: those that keep their trash cans in the house and those that […]

With our summer winding down and the fall quickly approaching, it’s finally time to do something about our garage floor. A few months after we moved into our current home three years ago, I applied a grey, 2-part epoxy paint to the garage floor. We had mixed results. In some areas, the epoxy seemed to […]

In our home, there’s always something that needs fixing.  If it’s a big enough problem, I usually get right on it since there are some problems that are just not worth avoiding, like a leaking sink for example.  Then there are those problems that are not in-your-face noticeable, but over time drive you mad.  In […]