Inspired by an article in an old issue of This Old House, this weekend we decided to use a French Cleat to hang our new flat screen TV on the basement wall. It seems really simple. It wasn’t. First, o...
How to what? Oxidize? What does that mean? Oxidized wood is just wood that has weathered, or been made to look weathered. Weathered wood has a patina that commercial stain and other finishing applicat...
Apparently this piece is actually called a “hall tree” among those in the know, but whenever I call it that people look at me like I’m nuts. So, Entry Bench it is. Inspired by this o...
Do you have a baseboard return air grille that looks like this? Not especially attractive, right? I’m pretty sure ours was original to the house and I see it every time I walk in and out through the g...