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Making a small bun look fuller is also something you can do with a chignon if you choose. Make a small bun look fuller with help from a hair and makeup artist in this free video clip.
Decorating a plastic pencil box is a great opportunity to put some of those leftover stickers to good use. Decorate a plastic pencil box with help from an experienced crafts expert in this free video clip.
Making the guy small in "Halo 3" is something that you do in the theater mode. Make the guy small in "Halo 3" with help from an experienced video game expert in this free video clip.
Texas washers, also known as Texas horseshoes, is an indoor or outdoor game where participants toss washers at holes in washer boards. The boards are set up 10-feet apart using a connecting rope that's attached to each board. As a do-it-yourselfer, you can make your own boards and save the cost of a manufactured set. The job requires basic carpentry skills, a few tools and materials that you find at lumber stores and home centers.
You'd be surprised by how easy it is to make your own planet right at home with a few simple tools. Learn about the things you'll need to make a planet out of with help from an artist and crafts expert in this free video clip.
Making wood with fondant is a great way to really test the limits of your cake decorating capabilities. Make wood with fondant with help from a cake designer and decorator in this free video clip.
Duct tape is a lot more versatile of a tool than you might think. Learn how to make cool things out of duct tape with help from a graphic designer and illustrator in this free video clip.
Making chairs look like they're in sand in Photoshop will use a variety of the program's many powerful tools. Make chairs look like they're in sand in Blogger with help from an experienced graphic designer in this free video clip.
Making a block letter outline page is a lot more straightforward of a process than you might think. Make a block letter outline page with help from a graphic designer and illustrator in this free video clip.
The careful application of the right types of makeup are great for making cuts less noticeable. Make cuts less noticeable with help from a celebrity makeup artist in this free video clip.
Changing the capitalization of something in Microsoft Word doesn't require you to retype entire words. Make small capitalization using Microsoft Word with help from an experienced web developer in this free video clip.
Making steel cut oatmeal taste better will depend on your own personal taste and what you personally feel the dish is lacking. Find out how to make steel cut oatmeal taste better with help from a nutritionist, chef and media personality in this free video clip.
A great way to recycle old doors is to make floating shelves out of them. The best doors for floating shelves are hollow core doors. These doors are lightweight enough to be suspended with a floating attachment, and they already have the hollow cavity that will make hanging them a breeze. Floating shelves are not difficult to construct. If you know your way around a few basic carpentry tools, this project will fly by in no time.
Modern variations of the deacon's bench veer from the traditional spindled or slat arms and back and may look boxy in style. By cutting out a rectangular hole in a box-like deacon’s bench, you can insert a planter, which is concealed by the front of the furniture. If you plan to use the deacon’s bench outside, use treated lumber so it can endure the elements.
PHP Nuke is a content management system, or CMS, that lets website administrators create and manage dynamic, database-driven websites. By default, PHP Nuke 7.9 comes with a number of blocks, including the Encyclopedia, Top 5 Articles, Login, Search and Online Users block. You can configure the placement of these blocks in the Blocks section of the PHP Nuke admin panel. If you have experience with PHP, you can also make your own blocks that you can add to the site.
Until the mid-19th century, the heavy weight of glass necessitated piecing smaller glass panes wrapped in wood and putty into grid-shaped grilles to form windows. With modern glass production offering large, light-weight single pane glass, grilles made of materials other than wood are sought for their architectural and secure elements.
Many homes have a kitchen corner cabinet that extends deep. Even with modern pivot-and-pull shelving to try to access this space, often items will fall off or become lodged so that the shelving doesn't work. This can be a problem that the homeowner wants to solve permanently. If you have plenty of storage, there is no reason you have to maintain the deep cabinet. It is a simple problem that you can solve with a false partition that blocks off the inaccessible cabinet.
Base cabinets offer plenty of room for storage. However, sometimes the depth of the cabinet becomes a hindrance because things get shoved in the back. One way to ensure everything is within reach in the cabinet is to modify the depth. Modifying the depth of kitchen base cabinets requires placing a new wall in the back of the cabinet. When installing a new wall, it is important to make sure the top of the wall doesn't interfere with the operation of the drawer above the cabinet.
Composed of a series of stacked chipping disks, a dado blade is designed to cut channels of varying depth into wood. Defined as a rectangular groove in a board, dados are often cut into a cabinet frame to accept the ends of cross members and shelves. Dado blades are used in conjunction with a table saw, where the height of the table platform is adjusted to create the depth of the channel.
Building an atrium is an excellent way to enjoy natural light and an outdoor feeling with limited exposure to the elements. Constructing a small enclosure with four walls and glazing overhead will permit you to use the space in a variety of ways. You can treat the atrium as a sunroom, greenhouse, family room or foyer. While you can build an atrium surrounded by walls in the center of a house, it's possible to construct an atrium from one or two solid walls and additional glass.
Built-in cabinets are a storage solution that blends in with a room and looks like part of your home. While freestanding furniture is a good option, you may need cabinetry to fit into a particular space without looking bulky or out of place. Built-in cabinets can span an entire wall or fit into a small space where you want some additional storage. Use trim on the cabinetry to coordinate with the accents in the room to help complete the look.
Floating cubes make versatile shelves you can build in many shapes and sizes for a custom look. The construction process is the same regardless of a cube's size. As long as the two sides are the same length and the top and bottom are the same width, you can't go wrong. Using medium-density fiberboard (MDF) instead of plywood helps to ensure smooth cut edges and results in a cube that’s easy to paint. If you lack the tools to cut the boards yourself, have the home center where you purchase the MDF cut the pieces for you.
Mica cabinets are built from Formica, a patented form of laminated wood, and therefore must be built with care if damage is to be avoided. Cutting a piece of Formica incorrectly can cause the laminated surface to crack, scuff or split off from the wooden core, leaving the wood looking in need of repair. Once the wood is cut, however, the process of building a mica cabinet is a similar to that of building any other kind of cabinet.
In its most basic form, a carport is a simple structure consisting of a roof and a series of vertical posts to hold it in place. But this doesn't mean that a carport can't also be a decorative element on your home. One way to give a carport a less industrial or more finished look is by enclosing the underside of the roof supports with a finished ceiling, such as one made from wood slats. This also presents an opportunity to add insulation, which will make the carport more comfortable and protect your vehicle from the heat of the sun.
Steel wire mesh is durable, inexpensive and easy to shape with pliers, making it an ideal material for making miniature furniture pieces. With a few common hardware supplies, you can shape wire mesh into a chair or sofa for model scenes or dollhouses.
A tall kitchen cabinet needs to be hung in a very specific way to make sure it is stable. Hang a tall kitchen cabinet with help from a professional kitchen designer in this free video clip.
A wood miter joint can really never be too strong. Learn how to make wood miter joints stronger with help from a home improvement expert in this free video clip.
Certain natural products are great for killing roaches in kitchen cabinets. Learn about a natural product you can put in kitchen cabinets for cockroaches with help from an expert on green pest control in this free video clip.
Adding a cabinet to a kitchen, bathroom or work area provides additional storage to keep your living or work space clutter-free and help you organize items for easy retrieval. Although you can purchase ready-made cabinets from home improvement stores and online retailers, you can also build your own custom cabinet to fit your work space or living area. Creating the layout and cutting your own custom cabinet is a straightforward process that requires only basic carpentry and drafting supplies.
Veneer makes it possible for nice-looking furniture to come with an affordable price tag. Tables, desks, bookcases, beds, chairs and dressers can all be produced from particleboard or plywood, which is much less expensive than solid wood, and covered with a very thin layer of real or faux wood, vinyl or plastic. Often, it's hard to tell that a veneer-coated piece of furniture isn't solid wood without close inspection. Unfortunately, veneer is prone to chipping, which can leave your piece with an ugly patch of exposed particleboard. Don't get rid of it: repair it yourself.
Gustav Stickley began designing Mission-style furniture around 1900. Simplistic, well-constructed furniture with clean, straight lines and medium- to dark-stained wood typifies Mission style. Fussy, ornamental trim and gaudy, glitzy hardware isn't a characteristic of Mission-design furniture. Adding minimal, simplistic trim to pieces of furniture reflects the Mission style, following the "less is better" concept.
Minnows make for terrific fishing bait, and if you’re a serious fisherman, you’ll go through a large number of them throughout the year. The costs of live bait can be a large chunk of fishing expense over time, but you can save on the costs by breeding your own minnows in a concrete block minnow tank. Building the tank is much like building a small pond. A liner holds the water without leakage, and the concrete blocks provide the edging that keeps the liner in place. With the addition of an aerator, you can keep your minnows alive, healthy and…
Not only must you have enough storage space in your kitchen cabinets for food and pantry items, the cabinets must also hold dishes, cooking implements and serving ware. Determining the cubic inches gives you an accurate picture of the storage space available. Although this is usually a straight-forward process, it's best to measure each cabinet separately because they might vary slightly in size and shape.
Recycling furniture and building fixtures allows you to find new uses for quality materials. For example, repurpose a wooden bench into a coat locker to complement your entry. A Holbrook bench that is 18 inches tall, 60 inches wide and 18 inches deep provides ample space to hang coats. A bench with the legs and frame flush with the bench seat avoids wasted space in and around your completed coat locker.
Building a cabinet surround for your oven so that it can match the rest of your cabinetry is an excellent way to ensure that your kitchen presents an appearance of organization and unity. This can be useful when installing a new oven or can be done to improve the appearance of the area around the current oven. This procedure should be customized to fit your oven and the area of your cabinetry enclosure. Building the oven into an existing space requires only the bottom frame of the cabinet to be built, then installed into the space and the existing countertop.
Cement borders serve to block off portions of property either for aesthetic purposes or to create curbing to help hold back soil or vehicle traffic. In order to pour a cement border in a landscape, you must first create a mold or frame along the path where you want to install the border. Once you've poured the concrete and it has set, remove the frame to leave only the cement border.
A corner closet is ideal to use wooden shelving in, since it is not too big to support the shelving without additional central supports. A corner closet is easier to build because you only need to make two additional walls. The closet will make a good linen closet or storage closet. You can determine how many shelves you have, so that it works perfectly for your needs. A corner closet can be put in nearly any room without disrupting the flow of the house.
Double sinks give a master bathroom a sense of pure luxury, with the practical addition of allowing each occupant of the bedroom his own space. This fact can be particularly appreciated in the morning, a time when even the most patient are in a hurry to get going. Having two sinks necessitates either two vanities or a vanity which is twice as long. A double vanity is often the most practical choice, as it provides an appearance of uniformity within the bathroom and effectively organizes the personal belongings of both bathroom occupants.
In the early days of the United States, some Native American tribes living along the northwest coast in permanent settlements carved totem poles in front of their homes or villages. The totem tells a story using animal, human or symbolic representations carved in wood. If you want to create a family totem or honor the Native American traditions, you can carve the totem pole in sections as you create your story.
Large rolling cabinets are an especially effective method of storage for large, flat areas like garages or workshops. This storage unit can easily be rolled to your project location for immediate access to all of the contents. The dimensions of this storage cabinet can be adjusted to fit any space or need, though if the cabinet is any larger than 36 inches in width it needs another set of casters in the middle to support the weight.
Your kitchen is a power fiend. Just think of all the electrical appliances you use in the kitchen and the fact that each of these requires an outlet to supply electricity. To ensure that your kitchen is safe, you must follow electrical codes for placement and types of outlets. While putting outlets in and around cabinets in your kitchen is one way to hide them from view, you cannot do that with every outlet.
Kitchen cabinets are defined in large part by the style of their doors. The doors often feature a distinct panel in the center of a mitered frame. The panel has a distinct profile that adds a decorative element to the cabinetry. If your kitchen cabinetry needs an upgrade, one option is to change out the center panel in the doors. You can do this by disassembling the miter joint frame around the center panel. There are many options for center panels included leaded glass, restoration glass or even country-style punched-tin inserts.
Recessed ceiling fluorescent lights are a reliable and cost-effective way to light a room, but the standard florescent fixtures are often strikingly unattractive. These utilitarian fixtures work well for areas that do not require an attractive work space, such as warehouses or factories, but their installation in places of customer-based business benefits from some measures to make them more attractive. One simple and easily customizable way to improve the overall presentation of fluorescent lights is to build a wooden frame box around the fixture, camouflaging the light's industrial nature and matching it to the wooden structures in the room.
The European cabinet system arose in the wake of World War II as a means of mass producing essential home items to rebuild quickly all the infrastructure destroyed by the war. This system incorporates line boring as a means of ensuring that mass produced cabinet units fit any and every application. Kitchen cabinet line boring specifications describe the spacing and size of holes, and also dictate the type of hardware you must use with these holes.
A gamer's chair is low-slung with a high back, and it is designed to move with the body as you get into the game. It may have pockets for keeping game system controllers at the ready and should be made from sturdy upholstery fabric or vinyl that can wipe clean. Instead of shelling out for a store-bought model, polish up your sewing skills and put together a gaming chair -- sized just for your gamer -- based on a classic bean bag chair.
Balsa wood towers are constructed primarily for competitions that emphasize the physics of engineering. Though these competition towers are typically bare-bones, having few decorative touches added to them to reduce the tower weight, it is possible to use the same building techniques to construct models of actual towers. These models can then be shown in your home as works of art, crafted objects that demonstrate functional engineering skills as well as artistic ability. Before display, however, you’ll need to use certain construction techniques to ensure that the towers are strong enough to last.
Considered a more natural way for most orchid species to grow, mounting boards are re-creations of how orchids thrive in the natural world, where they often grow on exposed surfaces of rock outcrops or rooted to tree limbs. Mounting boards allow you to observe the state of the entire orchid because potted orchids might be overly damp at the roots even if the pot appears dry. Create your own mounting board using cork backs or thick pieces of fallen bark.
Originating with American religious groups in the early 1800s, Shaker style focuses on simplicity. Cabinets reflecting Shaker style are simple, warm and casual. They are constructed with straight, clean lines. Arched cabinets are designed with a curved, sweeping ornamental arch across the top of each door, imparting a sophisticated, elegant flair. Refacing cabinets changes the look of your cabinets without replacing them. New cabinet doors and paint can transform your arched cabinets into Shaker-style cabinets without breaking the bank.
A thick, wooden mantel helps to add character to most fireplace styles. You can use several kinds of wood for a mantel, which can be in a number of styles. The wood should match or complement the home's other wood, especially the wood in the room with the fireplace.
Space between cabinets and countertop is some of the most valuable storage real estate in the home. Those who spend a lot of time in kitchens are always looking to maximize this storage space. Hanging a silverware drawer under a top cabinet is a convenient way of having access to some of the kitchen’s most used items, providing the bottom of the cabinet is not too high. This is an excellent way to store knives and other potential kitchen hazards out of children's reach.
