The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Renovating a home can be expensive. If you need to make some minor additions, like adding or updating handrails along a staircase, blacksmith Celeste Flores suggests doing it yourself. Her company Clay and Steel offers tons of DIY instructional videos for all kinds of renovations, including forging a handrail. The first step in forging your […]
When it comes to creative home decor, craft supplies can make great design elements. A perfect example: this DIY embroidery hoop photo display. Looking for a creative way to display your favorite snapshots? Transform old wooden embroidery hoops into an eye-catching piece of multi-tiered art with this cool and crafty embroidery hoop photo display tutorial […]
Cool off with a refreshing red, white, and blue treat. Up your summer sips game with this fun, kid-friendly patriotic punch! Perfect for cookouts, backyard barbecues, or Fourth of July celebrations, this colorful non-alcoholic libation is also a lesson in tasty kitchen science! Really, you can use ANY red, white, and blue drinks that you […]
These 6 bike storage methods should give you some ideas for how to make your own so that your bike can have a place to live when not in use.
Brighten dreary rooms with a fun burst of light and a few eye-catching hand-painted lines with a colorful leaning mirror! A touch of paint can give your favorite furnishings a whole new look, and it definitely works wonders on otherwise plain wooden surfaces. Love what you see? Grab your painter’s tape (I swear by Scotch […]
Assembly has long been emphasized as a selling point for children’s toys, from Lincoln Logs and Legos to Tinkertoys, Hexbugs, and K’nex. After all, what’s the fun in buying and playing with something that you don’t get to assemble yourself? In the latest iteration of such kits, artist and designer Tomoo Yamaji has created an elegant […]
Rube Goldberg has really become an adjective, thanks to the strange, enduring attraction to his devices
