Cleanly cut holes set your leather craft projects apart from leatherwork with ill-defined piercings. There are two approaches to punching clean holes in leather. Pliers-style punches are convenient and easy when it comes to making small holes, but they don’t offer the ability to create dies with large diameters.
When the weather turns warm, patios often do double and triple duty as kitchens, dining areas and living rooms. Since your family and friends spend so much time in your outdoor space, consider giving your patio a refresh with some inexpensive touches. Be playful with fabric, lights, color and texture, and add unique finds that work outdoors. You may just never go back inside again.
In a professional kitchen, the tallest hat indicates the person in charge. Next time your child wants to help in the kitchen, put them in charge with this fanciful, yet super simple chef’s hat. It takes just a few minutes of folding and taping and you more than likely already have everything you need to make one!
With a little effort you can enhance that fascination by turning a couple of cardboard boxes into a race car complete with a storage trunk for other toys.
Halls are passageways to other rooms and are often ignored in the overall decorating scheme. Include your narrow hallway in your decorating plans to achieve continuity and visually expand the space.
Invented by a Swedish company in 1977, Pergo is the original laminate flooring, and it remains a go-to flooring choice for budget-conscious homeowners. Consisting of 3-foot planks that snap together, Pergo floors float over the subfloor rather than being attached by nails or glue.
Train mandevilla vines from the day you plant them to greatly simplify the vine training process, which will continue throughout the growing season. This twining vine appreciates having new shoots twisted through fence or trellis sections as it grows.
Prized for its fragrant blossoms and foliage, lavender (Lavandula spp.) has been grown in Europe and Mediterranean areas for centuries. It's estimated that more than 40 species of lavender exist and more than 400 varieties, or cultivars. Because of the variability, a wide range in cold hardiness exists, from U.S.
All fireplaces and wood stoves need a solid base to serve as the hearth, not just for the stove itself, but to keep fire hazards from damaging the home.
Making crepe paper flowers has become popular again as a way to create unique and economical decorations for special occasions as well as for use in weddings. In the early 1900s families who did not have real flowers available designed their own patterns based on common flowers they saw.