I loooove me some blankets so in my living room. I have plenty of them however, I don’t have any place to store them so they are scattered everywhere. This week I’m fixing that by building a coffee table that has storage inside. I was thinking about building one of those tables where the top actually lifts up and turns into a surface to eat on (while sitting on the couch) but we actually never eat in the living room so I figured I would stick with a more traditional style of having a hinged lid that opens. For the hardware I used special hinges called torsion hinges and even though these are kinda pricy I picked them …
Since I was young I’ve always had a liking for trees. I find them relaxing and soothing so when we bought our house I jumped on the first opportunity to build a tree on a large wall in our living room. And as you might imagine, I love it. However, I took this project on as my very first which was before I was filming my projects. So this week I got a chance to build another one in my friends living room and this time I filmed the process and put together a step by step. This is a super cool project that could be changed very easily to suit different spaces such as nurseries, game rooms, or …
I bet my mom loves me being on YouTube because it means she gets her present early. I went ahead and did my mother’s day present a week early in case any of you out there needed an idea for a quick and easy DIY present for your own mom. My brother and I built a birdhouse hotel for our mom when we were just little kids (with the help of a family friend of course) and even though it’s hung in there for all these years it was just about falling apart so she asked if I would remake it for her this mother’s day. I was going to try and salvage the roofs at least …
This week Cody and I fixed a giant hole we had in the garage ceiling. The ceiling in my husband’s garage was beginning to fall apart. The previous owner of the house put a couple of light fixtures on the ceiling drywall and did not attach them to the rafters. This caused some the drywall to begin to sag and ultimately fall from the ceiling one afternoon (thankfully his Corvette was not in there at the time….eeek!). Now we could have just throw a few new sheets of drywall up but a few months ago. I tore down all the drywall on his garage walls and installed OSB instead (video here). Cody has been really happy with it …