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Free Shoe Organizer Plans

Over a year ago, we completed a shoe organizer project to help clean up some of the cluttered mess of shoes we have in our garage.  We don’t wear shoes in the house so we had a good 8 pairs or so of shoes just piled up in there.  Since that post went live in […]

January 30th, 2014
Home Office Layout Options

In this post you’ll learn: – How room layout options can be tweaked to get desirable results – How SketchUp can be used to design and build room layouts With all the snow we’ve had this week, I had enough down time to work on our home office layout options.  To make things easier on […]

January 23rd, 2014
The Home Remodeling Process

In this post, you’re going to learn: – How your home improvement project is exactly like the space shuttle – How to use the Home Remodeling Process for your next home improvement project After another full weekend of labor and our home office floor is finally finished.  Now it’s time to turn our attention to […]

January 20th, 2014
Custom Woodworking Plans

Since we started releasing our free woodworking plans to our newsletter subscribers, I realized that not everyone may be interested in building projects that are exactly the same size as the units in our house.  Fair enough.  So, I decided to open up an Etsy shop and sell custom dimensioned versions of the projects we […]

January 15th, 2014
How to Remove Hardwood Flooring

So last weekend we ripped out some of the hardwood flooring in our vestibule and got started with adding in the new boards.  Since we were super busy with work and our Free Built-In Plans, we haven’t had much opportunity to continue work on it.  Even though the office floor is roughly half done, it’s […]

January 13th, 2014
Free Built-In Cabinet Plans

Well, we’ve had another busy week.  Fortunately for you, we’ve been busy working on our next set of free woodworking plans. These plans took FOREVER! I kinda went a little overboard too.  They’re more like an ebook than plans.  Complete with a material and tool list, step by step instructions, etc.  It’s more than 30 […]

January 10th, 2014
Hardwood Floor Installation

Happy 2014!!  We’re back.  Cue the theme music. A few weeks ago, I finished up my last grad school course and headed into the holidays ready to take some much needed time off.  Consequently, we decided to take a blog vacation until the holidays were over.  Hope you missed us. This past week, we kicked-off […]

January 5th, 2014
Our Home Office Ideas

Happy Friday folks! Christmas is less than two weeks away. Hope your shopping and decorating is going well. I have yet to purchase a single item. Pretty par for the course for me though. Today I wanted to start sharing some of our home office ideas. If you follow our Pinterest home office ideas board, […]

December 13th, 2013
Free Mobile Workbench Plans

We are excited to finally make some woodworking plans available.  We’re starting with our Mobile Workbench.  The plans include a complete material list  as well as detailed, graphic instructions.  The workbench plans are absolutely free to our newsletter subscribers.  You may have seen our How-To post on this workbench on our DIY Projects page.  The […]

December 9th, 2013
The Next Project: Our Home Office

Even though we’re still wrapping up some work in our sitting room (paint and some decor still to-do), we wanted to let everyone know what project we’d be starting after we finish.  We’re psyched to be switching gears soon and finally getting to work on our home office. If you took our home tour, you […]

December 5th, 2013
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