Carpentry

While a building with concrete walls is sturdy, it can often make a room feel desolate if left bare. You may wish to make the room feel more inviting by adding photos to the walls. However,...

Kitchen cabinet hardware not only adds functionality to your cabinets but can add a beautiful design that gives elegance to your kitchen. The knobs, pulls and handles can match your other metals...

The craft of carpentry requires much concentration, planning and attention to detail. Carpentry requires the use of wood planes, chisels, saws, tape measures, hand levels, drills and joinery...

Closet door openings can vary in height. Some are framed a little short because of preference and some are framed to specifications to allow for the installation of a closet door without having to...

Prior to the 1940s, lath and plaster was one of the most common methods for preparing interior walls for paint or wallpaper. The advent of drywall has caused other building materials to steadily...

All home repair comes with its own degree of difficulty and safety needs. Installing new hardware on cabinets or other doors around the house is a fairly simple task. Before starting your project,...

Bathroom vents require openings in the ceiling, wall or roof which create a potential for air leakage around the penetrations. If you have air leakage, it is either due to the age of the fan or...

Let's say you are in need of a ruler or measuring tape for your latest craft venture and you suddenly realize that you don't have a ruler or measuring tape on hand. What are you going to do? How...

This article will teach you how to shorten a hollow closet door, if you only need to take off two inches or less. If you need to take off more than two inches off your closet door the project...

Interior closet doors are almost always hollow. This makes shortening them (if you change flooring, if you have house shifting issues, etc) a little bit more complex than just cutting them. This...

Wall paneling is common across America, and, for that matter, around the globe. It was prevalent in almost all house holds or dwellings before drywall came around, and, even so, it is still a...

You may be familiar with the arrows, located on a tape measure, at every multiple of 16 inches and 24 inches. In carpentry, these are the indicators of the standard spacing of wall studs, floor...

A tape measure is an indispensable tool when working on projects in which precision measurements are necessary. Whether you are installing shelves, laying out a flower bed or hemming your jeans, a...

Whether you are finishing your basement yourself or planning to hang pictures and decorations on your walls, it is important to know how many studs are in the wall and where they ought to be....

Installing drywall is usually one of the last steps in finishing a room after construction is completed. Drywall is the finished surface of a wall that you see before a room is painted. Installing...

Duct tape is practical and can be used in many different ways. When you use duct tape on household items, it will often leave behind a sticky residue when you remove or replace it. Here are six...

There was a small cigarette burn on my livingroom carpet once and it nearly broke my heart because the carpet had only been down for little over a month. I couldn't afford financially to replace...

Technical tape measures all share the same major components. They are all enclosed in either a steel or plastic case. They utilize a friction type hold mechanism to stop the action of the interior...

Have you ever left masking tape on too long until it becomes so stuck to the surface that it leaves a sticky dirty residue behind? Follow these easy steps to remove it!

Learn how to use different tools on a tool belt in this free video guide to basic hand tools - tape measurer.

Taking measurements with a tape measure is quick and easy to do. Follow these guidelines to get accurate measurements for any home improvement project.

Installing drywall is an art but is not impossible for the average person to learn. Here are the basics.

When you put in base molding, you must be able to measure accurately. How you measure in preparing to install base molding will determine how well the job turns out. There are some key things to...