Build Your Own Underground Root Cellar

Having a root cellar in your backyard is like having your own private supermarket of fresh fruits and vegetables. Any time you need potatoes for dinner or an apple for a snack, just open the door and walk inside. Anything you need is right there on the shelves. But a root cellar is more than…

Workbench serves as tablesaw outfeed, too

A hardworking workbench The workbench in my single-stall garage shop does dual duty as both a workbench and an outfeed table for my tabesaw. As an outfeed table it was critical that my assembled workbench (with top) had to be about 1/4″ shorter than the bottom edge of the miter-gauge grooves in my tablesaw top.…

DIY Guide to Building Kitchen Cabinets

Somebody lately asked to get a easy do-it-yourself guide to building kitchen cabinets. Bearing in thoughts that most DIYers aren’t expert tradesmen, this question seems to me a contradiction in terms. I’m a tradesman. I’ve expertise in each residential construction trade and also the family members company just occurs to become residential remodeling, handed down…

DIY Adirondack Chair Plans

Adirondack chairs are extremely well-liked in many places all through our world, particularly in out of doors and rural settings. The original chair was invented in 1903 when a guy on vacation in the Adirondack Mountains required chairs for his summer season house. This chair featured substantial armrests, a slanted back, and seat which permitted…