Skip to contentA step-by-step tutorial on how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding MDF trim to the door to create a DIY shaker style cabinet. When you moved into your home, you had an ambitious list of all the renovations you would tackle in the first year. How could you have known that you would soon be sitting on cracked foundations and sweating with a faulty HVAC system?  These unexpected emergency repairs drained your home improvement funds over the years.Today, you’re still staring at the worn, neglected kitchen cabinets. Their sad, rusted...…Skip to contentA step-by-step tutorial on how to update kitchen cabinets without replacing them by adding MDF trim to the door to create a DIY shaker style cabinet. When you moved into your home, you had an ambitious list of all the renovations you would tackle in the first year. How could you have known that you would soon be sitting on cracked foundations and sweating with a faulty HVAC system?  These unexpected emergency repairs drained your home improvement funds over the years.Today, you’re still staring at the worn, neglected kitchen cabinets. Their sad, rusted...WW…

Skip to contentA step-by-step tutorial on how to build a floating desk for your home office or kids craft room.After finishing our basement, we were fascinated by a useful little space at the bottom of our stairs. Originally, we designed it to be a mudroom but the more we thought about it, we wanted it to be a place for our kids. Any kids’ activity room needs a desk so we decided to build one that was permanent and out of the way. And that is why we were inspired to build a floating desk.The floating desk design is perfect for our kids because it does not move around and they...…Skip to contentA step-by-step tutorial on how to build a floating desk for your home office or kids craft room.After finishing our basement, we were fascinated by a useful little space at the bottom of our stairs. Originally, we designed it to be a mudroom but the more we thought about it, we wanted it to be a place for our kids. Any kids’ activity room needs a desk so we decided to build one that was permanent and out of the way. And that is why we were inspired to build a floating desk.The floating desk design is perfect for our kids because it does not move around and they...WW…

Skip to contentA DIY guide on how to build a closet system with drawers and shelves to expertly store all your clothing and accessories. It’s 6 am and the morning greets you with a sudden buzzing of your alarm clock. You scramble out of your bed to silence it, trudge over to your closet and blindly reach in to grab the essentials for the day.  Yet another challenge awaits you.The outfit that you were planning to wear is camouflaged in the chaotic, overstuffed space. Your jeans are scattered and hiding in dark, inaccessible places on the closet’s top shelf. And...…Skip to contentA DIY guide on how to build a closet system with drawers and shelves to expertly store all your clothing and accessories. It’s 6 am and the morning greets you with a sudden buzzing of your alarm clock. You scramble out of your bed to silence it, trudge over to your closet and blindly reach in to grab the essentials for the day.  Yet another challenge awaits you.The outfit that you were planning to wear is camouflaged in the chaotic, overstuffed space. Your jeans are scattered and hiding in dark, inaccessible places on the closet’s top shelf. And...WW…

Skip to contentA step-by-step tutorial on how to build a DIY closet organizer.Do you remember the day you finally bought that dress you have been eyeing, took it out of its delicate packaging and hung it up in your closet as soon as you got home? No? Is it still sitting in its shopping bag, near the front door? Or perhaps it has made its way into your abyss of a closet, shoved between your partner’s favorite well-worn shirt and your child’s last year’s piano recital shirt. (Wait, why is that even in your closet?!)You can’t even see the closet rod anymore because of all the clothes...…Skip to contentA step-by-step tutorial on how to build a DIY closet organizer.Do you remember the day you finally bought that dress you have been eyeing, took it out of its delicate packaging and hung it up in your closet as soon as you got home? No? Is it still sitting in its shopping bag, near the front door? Or perhaps it has made its way into your abyss of a closet, shoved between your partner’s favorite well-worn shirt and your child’s last year’s piano recital shirt. (Wait, why is that even in your closet?!)You can’t even see the closet rod anymore because of all the clothes...WW…

Skip to contentIt’s amazing how many items you can collect in your shed or garage over time. And of course, they’re all useful and needed but the chaos makes you nervous. So how do you organize everything so you can see what you have and access them easily?Build your own storage shelves!I have an easy way to build storage shelves for either the garage, shed, or maybe a storage room. And all you need are some 2×4’s, plywood, screws, and some tools.SIDE NOTE: Want to see how we build this shed, start at creating a shed plan.SIDE NOTE: I decided to build these shelves by attaching them...…Skip to contentIt’s amazing how many items you can collect in your shed or garage over time. And of course, they’re all useful and needed but the chaos makes you nervous. So how do you organize everything so you can see what you have and access them easily?Build your own storage shelves!I have an easy way to build storage shelves for either the garage, shed, or maybe a storage room. And all you need are some 2×4’s, plywood, screws, and some tools.SIDE NOTE: Want to see how we build this shed, start at creating a shed plan.SIDE NOTE: I decided to build these shelves by attaching them...WW…