In this post, you’ll learn: – About jointers – How to use a jointer for tighter seams in your projects If you’re just getting started with some basic woodworking projects, you may have heard about or seen a jointer. While it’s not terribly common for DIYers to own one, it’s a pretty useful tool to […]
Well it’s been a while, but our latest set of woodworking are now available. To get access to the plans, just click the button below. Click Here to Get the Plans The media center plans includes: – A complete shopping list – Cut sheets for all the plywood components – Cut list for all […]
In today’s post you’ll learn: – How to Scribe a Cabinet In an ideal world, all walls and floors would be square and true (and all mortgages paid off). Since that never seems to be the case, you need to know how to modify your cabinets or built-ins to account for uneven walls. If you […]
In this post you’ll learn: – How to use a thickness planer – Why you should consider using one – The difference between rough cut lumber and S4S Back in 2005 when I was building my first set of kitchen cabinets, I made an impulsive purchase and bought a used thickness planer I found on […]
Happy Monday folks. Today I have just uploaded our latest set of free woodworking plans. The plans are for the sliding kitchen cabinet drawers. The plans are free to our newsletter subscribers. To get your copy of the plans for this project, simply click the button below. Click Here to Get the Plans […]
In this week’s installment of Your Home from Scratch, we’re showing off Bobbi’s beautiful router table. It’s perfect timing since we just released our own set of free router table plans, although my table isn’t even in the same ballpark as Bobbi’s. Bobbi is one of our newsletter subscribers and I was excited when she offered […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
So our Custom Media Cabinet is nearly complete. I’m hoping to get it painted and then assembled this weekend. Instead of putting it together and then painting it, I’m going to try painting most of it first and then gluing it up. It was a major PIA to paint our built-in once it was finished. […]
