What Not To Do When Trying To Sell Your Home
Guess what Homefixaters? I just bought me a house! Now I truly belong on this website as I will be really, really fixated on this new home for a while. But I’d like to chat …
Written by: Jen
How To
Freeze Resistant Footing Tube – Because Shift Happens
Wanna keep your deck, dock and porch posts and piers from shifting and heaving? Before the shift hits the fan, head it off with The Footing Tube. The form is made from lightweight, recycled plastic, …
Written by: Liz
How to Build a Ridiculously Easy Rustic Wood Coat Rack That Your Wife Will Refuse to Allow Anywhere but the Garage
This wood coat rack project is about a half step up on the challenge meter from screwing a hook into the wall. Think of it as my gift to all of you curled into a …
Written by: Liz
Gardening, How To, Landscaping, Videos
Smart Tree Planting – How To Plant a Tree Without Killing It
Planting trees has always been a bane on my existence. I have a hard enough time remembering to feed my kid and he cries when he’s hungry. The needs of a tree are so much …
Written by: Leroy
DIY Discussion, How To, Plumbing
How to Change the Distribution Box on Your Septic Tank – And Why You Shouldn’t
As I gaze out my front window at all the pretty daffodils, in anticipation of summer, I can’t help but remember some high points from last summer. Unfortunately, it is but one, low memory, (and …
Written by: Liz
DIY Discussion, How To, Kitchen, Woodworking
How to Maintain Butcher Blocks and Cutting Boards – Give them the Viagra Treatment
All of us who enjoy working with wood have made cutting boards or butcher blocks that we’ve glued up from scraps. We couldn’t throw those great pieces away after a project was finished. Of course …
Written by: Brad
DIY Discussion, Flooring, How To, Resources
Moving Heavy Furniture – Sometimes DIY Is Really Best
At Homefixated, we try not to bad-mouth products and instead focus our attention on items and ideas that you might actually get some use out of. We’ll be doing that in this post but I …
Written by: Jen
When Nerds Renovate – The Star Trek Door
As much as I like Star Wars, I have always been a Star Trek kind of girl. Sure, it’s easy to say that now, after JJ Abrams rebooted the series in such a hip way, …
Written by: Jen
Sweet Free Plans – MacGyver Worthy Piano Tool Bench and Conversation Piece
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. And while that may be true I contend, in at least this case, that ingenuity is the cranky old grandfather and boredom is the big papi! …
Written by: Leroy
How to Build a Rustic Picture Frame Using Half Round Birch
For those of you who like a rustic look in a picture frame, and I do mean rustic, the half round, birch wood frame is the ticket. As a custom picture framer hailing from Central …
Written by: Liz