Inspire and Empower Beginner Woodworkers
After I built a temporary guest room in our house for the arrival of our 3rd baby, we decided to install a king-size bed in that room. Well, why stop at building the room when you can build a bed for that room too, I [read more …]
A mistake I made in a recent woodworking project had me looking for the best way to hide pocket holes. Long story short, as part of my farmhouse kitchen table project, I was making a tabletop by edge-joining multiple boards using glue and pocket screws. [read more …]
My wife and I were ecstatic to find out in early 2020 that we were going to have a 3rd child! New addition to the family meant we needed an extra, 4th bedroom to accommodate guests who would stay with us after the baby was [read more …]
My family of 5 spends a LOT of time around the kitchen table. 🤗 Making plans for a farmhouse kitchen table for this special space in our home and building that table had been on my to do list for a long time. I finally [read more …]
A mistake I made in a recent woodworking project had me looking for the best way to hide pocket holes. Long story short, as part of my farmhouse kitchen table project, I was making a tabletop by edge-joining multiple boards using glue and pocket screws. [read more …]
Up until the 2020 COVID pandemic, both my wife and I were working full time. And our twin girls were being sent to daycare (pre-K). As the pandemic dragged on without end in sight, we made 3 major changes to our family: We added a [read more …]
A few of years ago, our kids’ bedroom door suddenly started rubbing against the top of the frame when closing. It was a summer season when the door suddenly started sticking to the frame like that. As any self-respecting dad would do under the circumstances, [read more …]
My wife and I were becoming increasingly frustrated with the dining furniture in our kitchen. The kitchen chairs especially were old and falling apart. They were also hard to clean because of the upholstery which trapped food crumbs that our young kids spill all the [read more …]
My wife loves to grow vegetables in our backyard. As a dutiful husband, I had built her raised vegetable garden beds as described in this post. But the only problem is that the critters in our backyard, including insects, lizards, squirrels, and bunnies just don’t [read more …]
My wife wanted to plant some vegetables in the spring of 2019. Well, you can guess what that means for me. Yep, a honey do project. 😀 I knew going into the project that this would be fairly straightforward, given I had already completed relatively [read more …]
Big-box home improvement chain stores are one-stop shops for for your home, from construction materials to furniture, accessories and home décor. Of all home-improvement chain stores, Home Depot and Lowe’s are the biggest. I have multiple stores from both chains within 30min driving from my [read more …]
My wife and I were ecstatic to find out in early 2020 that we were going to have a 3rd child! New addition to the family meant we needed an extra, 4th bedroom to accommodate guests who would stay with us after the baby was [read more …]
There is one activity that often takes more than 50% of my time every time I plan for a new project. And that activity is answering this one question: what materials should I use for each component in my project? 🤔 More specifically, what primary, [read more …]
