Intimidated by furniture making? I was too, friend. I thought it required a whole lotta fancy dove tailing, planing, jointing, maybe a little biscuit or domino joinery, extensive routing, your grandpa’s hand tools, all of your time margin, and the lingering stale scent of patchouli …

Do NOT do what I did. Hand-me-down cordless drill. Zero “how-to” tutorials or mentorship. Pseudo-masculine infused confidence (the reason all things break before warranty). 10 minutes worth of power per battery, maybe. The amperage to drill through some mean cardboard. Or to effortlessly predrill through …

We closed on our first house the day before Halloween. House-buddy knew getting a makeover was his destiny, so he staged the house accordingly.

What does your table stand for? Is it only functional, or does it serve a deeper purpose?

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(Read with House Hunters sterile RoboLady voice) We enter our perfect-for-entertaining open floor plan with high ceilings, hardwoods throughout and an updated kitchen for better resale (end HH voice). Mail, keys, wallets and coats are dang EVERYWHERE, or gone forever. Clutter is the proverbial endless …

Welcome to the Rez, friend! We’re super glad you stopped by to try your hand at beautifying your custom piece of woodworked art we like to call a headboard. But feel free to use this finishing technique on any and every piece of wood you …

Good ole Pinterest, all the DIY blogs, the Google machine and home design magazines are “inadvertently” wooing and beckoning your gaze with their custom-built rustic chic furniture pieces. Is that a droplet of drool I spy, easing itself out of the corner of your jaw-dropped …

Part I – The Build? Crushed it. Part II – The Finish? Dominated. Now we’re ready for the finale: Part III – how to install this really friggin heavy piece of art you just created with your Behr hands (stuff never comes off). Let’s get …

Welcome back, DIYer! Part I was quite the journey (the build). This is Part II of the Restoration Hardware copycat headboard tutorial. We’ll be covering the “finishing” component in this post: painting the casing, waxing the casing, adding white ribbon to the edge of the …

Visual home marketing has a strong hold on your psyche. Don’t believe me? You cruise & peruse Restoration Hardware, West Elm and Z Gallerie showrooms (what is this thing you call a “mall”? Never heard of it). You jump on the computing device to glance …

It’s a relaxing work-night (you convince yourself), and you’re practicing your adulting by home-cheffing a dish that includes a little green green. You’re thinking local kale or sage from the garden out back, right? Thought so. You hipster. But it seems you have reached an …