“Workbench Magazine”, now known as “My Home, My Style”, is full of great products, tips and info for woodworkers, but these under stair storage cabinets are the best idea I’ve seen in a long while. Few spaces are weirder and less usable than the area beneath the stairs, and so many of us miss the mark when attempting to make use of it. Please take a moment to gaze upon my better half’s half-ass solution to this common dilemma… [click to continue…]
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You’ve heard of food porn. You’ve heard of house porn. And we presume you know of porn porn (and if not, we can’t imagine how incredibly confusing this entire intro must be to you. That, and really? REALLY? You don’t know what porn is? What Internet are you using?). But now we’d like to bring something to your attention that you might not have heard of before: stair porn. Really. [click to continue…]
What to do…what to do…when you need to replace only a few porch spindles, but can’t locate ones that match? Or, maybe you live in an older home; you love the finials, but they have deteriorated beyond salvation and no way, will you find the same design at a home store. Cinder Whit & Company might be just the answer. They produce both stock and custom wood turnings for porches and stairs. [click to continue…]
I adore my husband, but a handy home-fix-it guy he is not. When he saw me fiddling with BalusterPro, an app for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad, the he immediately thought I was doing something kinky. To his disappointment, I was not.
A baluster (pronounced BAH-lis-ter … not bawl-LUST-er, as a certain someone first thought) refers to the structures (often made of wood or metal) that are installed between a staircase and the handrail. Some calls these “stair rails” and in less, um, refined parts of the country, they’re sometimes referred to as “stair sticks.” When people speak of banisters, they’re often thinking of the balusters and the handrail as if they are one whole part (even though they’re not one piece).
But, enough finickiness over the English language. Let’s talk about why the BalusterPro app could work for you, even if you’re not building or fixing a staircase! [click to continue…]
The Goonies really did a number on us kids at the time. Man, did that little film ever get our imaginations going on the possibility of finding hidden clues and treasure. I was soooo disappointed to not live in a home that had an attic – the starting point of all pirate maps, secret passages and treasure codes. The lack of an attic (and the fact that the house was built in the 70s) didn’t stop one little friend of mine whose parents one day came home to find the hatch to the ceiling crawl space busted in and insulation pouring into the hallway. I suppose it could have been worse – remember those little turds children who took to the sewers after watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
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