All cabinets should have adjustable shelves. If yours don’t, then you must be assuming that everyone has the same needs and issues that apparently you have, and that your needs and issues will never change. Flexibility to move your shelves around allows you to adapt to your current situation and needs and keep everyone happy. [click to continue…]
Hardware
Well, Skil’s iLevel has just made my life a whole lot easier — can’t imagine why I didn’t think to try this out before now. However, Skil’s HomeFixated sponsorship status, and their offering to send us an iLevel to check-out definitely helped me broaden my approach to leveling! As a professional picture framer who loves the framing aspect of the job, but cringes at the thought of installs, the iLevel removes at least 50% of the “hanging stuff up” headache. And, whether you need to hang a series of pictures, shelves or cabinets, or install chair rail, wainscoting, tile or a slew of other things…Skil’s iLevel will make the job go that much smoother. [click to continue…]
No, we’re not talking about that thread that keeps your marriage together through times of thick and thin, through times of late night writing when you should have done it the week before. (Or maybe even just a day or two before midnight on the deadline date…) And no, it’s not about two perverted spools of thread that….. never mind. It’s about the handy little tool that can save the day when you don’t have the two hundred-piece tap and die set you bought with your first credit card at Sears. [click to continue…]
Sliding barn doors are kind of a “thing” of mine. Really, anything barn and/or door related jazzes me, especially when an old door, be it barn or carriage, has been reclaimed and incorporated into a living space. After stumbling across this article at Cupboards Online, (an Alabama retailer of KraftMaid cabinetry), and being blown away by the photos of different, interior applications for barn doors, I was moved to do some further digging; mainly to answer the question, “Where the deuce can I get my hands on barn doors like these?” [click to continue…]
I know it can be tempting to use whichever screws or nails you have laying around; I’ve been guilty of doing it myself on more than one occasion, but it really pays to use the proper fastener for the job. Otherwise, the result can be disastrous. It’s kind of like when a recipe calls for some crucial ingredient you realize you don’t have, but you just don’t feel like wasting the time on a trip to the store, so you substitute carob for chocolate, or throw in some cooking oil rather than an egg. The result just isn’t the same. [click to continue…]
