Successfully select, protect wood for projects
Successfully select, protect wood for projects Wood decks and exteriors can last long and wear gracefully, but you need to select the right wood and protect it in the right way, says Sjoerd Bos, Vice President of Sansin, the leader in environmentally-friendly wood protection. According to Bos, wood not only is beautiful, it also is strong, durable and kind to the environment. In a time when its all about green building, wood is about as green as it gets, notes Bos. Wood feeds the atmosphere as it grows and nourishes the earth at the end of its lifecycle. Wood is our only truly renewable resource and should be the go-to element for any building project. View more…
Workbench Build #2: Starting the glueup + the Sweetheart No. 62
Two points in this post:
1. Dealing with tricky glue-ups2. Obtaining a decent quality plane……finally!
I need to say – this is probably not the conventional approach to making a bench, by building the top first – but I don’t build off of plans – rather I build from the materials at hand – so the final product is not always known up front.
What I’m trying to say is – I will later build a base that fits the top. Definitely not the textbook approach – but I’m doing it anyways…. 
Part 1. The glue-up<
Win a makeover for your ugly kitchen
Win a makeover for your ugly kitchen 
Would your kitchen take home a prize for Most In Need of Repair, with its cracking cabinets and countertops dating back to the 1950s? If so, you might consider entering Milano Granite & Marbles Staten Islands Ugliest Kitchen: $10,000 Kitchen Makeover Contest. According to manager Jennifer Remauro, the Bulls Head company is seeking the most horrible, horrendous and ugly kitchen, one in desperate need of professional help. This is the first time the firm is sponsoring the contest and while Ms. View more…
Must your garage door be repaired or replaced?
The garage door is one of the most important parts of the house because it is so important. It must be repaired or replaced depends mainly on how the injury occurred. Whether by garage door accidents, over the years due to exposure to the elements, or otherwise, one of the many garage door repair shops can help an owner determine the best option to resolve the problem.
The wooden doors are repaired quite different than most modern metal. Often, an expert in the field can serve as a valuable resource on this issue. View more…
Eco Friendly Carpets Are A Great Choice
If you need new carpeting in your home, you might want to look into some of the great eco-friendly carpets on the market today.
Recycled carpet is no longer the ugly step-child of the industry. It’s stylish, durable, easy to clean, comparable in price to virgin fiber carpet, and it’s Earth-friendly. Shaw carpets alone will keep over 100 million pounds of old carpets out of the landfill with their Anso nylon carpets.
There are a couple of different major manufacturers that were recently featured in the BH&G article that deserve mention.
Shaw carpets has quite a few recycled carpet products.
Building Falling Waters Lamps #4: Vive la différence
If you’ve been following this series, I’m sure your scratching your head and saying to yourself “That sure don’t look like walnut to me!”
So when I said “I’ll do it my way!” one of the things I meant was that I wouldn’t use walnut for the pieces that make up the shade on this lamp.
Not that I don’t like walnut. I really like walnut. I might even go so far as to say I love walnut. But, (here’s the catch…) I don’t have any walnut. And there’s nowhere I can buy it locally. So instead of walnut, I’ll