Have you ever noticed those little tags on outdoor plants at your local garden center? They might say something like, "Hardy to Zone 3." This information is indispensable to a gardener. Why? Without it you new plant may not survive the winter.
What is a Hardiness Zone Map?
Hardiness zone maps designate individual zones to let us compare climates to other places where a plant is known to thrive--taking into consideration average temperatures and… Continue Reading
Sometimes, hand painted just isn't the look you're going for, and you long to add some machine printed accuracy to your latest project. Here's two easy ways to add printed images to canvas, plastic, glass, paper, and whatnot.
Materials:
Image from a magazine or book, or printed via laser printer or photocopier. (Inkjet printers will not work)
Warm water
Large bowl or pie plate
Credit card or bone folder (Credit card not pictured...forgive me.)
The voting margin was narrow, but Terryswaler pulled out the win in the "Curbly Think Spring Giveaway". Her spring project is to finish up her gutted kitchen; and she estimates it'll cost around $4,000.
Well, congratulations, Terryswaler! We'll get you 2.5 hundredths of the way there with a gift certificate to Amazon.com!
Honorable mention goes to Balubalu, who came in very close with his genius idea for a DIY rolling hideaway bed!
And thanks to… Continue Reading
To honor this most holy of holy days, let us join together in the creation of a symbol of our joy: the baseball mitt.
What You’ll Need
A section of newspaper. (I’d suggest the sports section.)
Optional: a Sharpie
What You’ll Do
Fold 1/4 of the way in as shown below.
Fold corners to center.
Fold corners to center, again.
Turn over.
Fold up bottom about 2 inches three times.
Fold tip down and tuck into band.
Fold side as shown, tucking it… Continue Reading
Some of us are lucky to have spare rooms in which to work on our projects. Others convert basements, garages, utility rooms into their creative headquarters. And some must make do on their kitchen tables.
So, show us your space! In which room do you best DIY? Is it more of a woodshop, sewing room, or artist studio? What are your essential tools and supplies? How do you keep it organized? Do you even keep it organized? What are its… Continue Reading
Here's a how-to for every 007 wannabe: A hollow-bottomed soda can safe perfect to hide your family jewels. Or you can buy one at Diversion-Safes for about 11 bucks (plus 7 bucks for shipping and handling, of course.)
Pic via instructions at How 2 Do Stuff.
Don't have a garden? Don't let that stop you from using your design genius to create one.
This one is by Skye and is called Cheap Trinketville 
Go HERE to make your own
Pros: You don't have to mow the lawn. You don't have to obey the laws of gravity. You can make it just a loopy as a bucket of frogs, in fact you could put a bucket of frogs in it...
Cons: It's 1 dimensional. You can't sit in it and drink a nice glass of wine.
This is… Continue Reading
This stream sink, also known as The Mystic, is about 48" long and slopes from 2 1/8" depth to 4 ½". Not exactly good for washing up the dishes, but it’s addition to the kitchen would be more for its entertainment value anyway. Elkay's The Mystic sells for about $1500. And if it proves to be THAT entertaining, you might be able to take tickets at the door to help you pay for it.
Check out Queenie, a bed ‘gable’ made of Plexi glass, available through Scandinavian Design Center. At about 320 bucks, it’s not terribly expensive, but for a fraction of the cost, the look could be easily replicated out of a piece of MDF and a jigsaw. Yes?
*Not for use in all emergencies...
These curtains probably wouldn't be that useful in say, a VOLCANO.
BUT
If you've got your in-law equivalents coming to stay for two weeks and you realise THE DAY BEFORE THEY ARRIVE that the room in which they will be staying is totally exposed to the prying eyes of Yonge St.
AND you're flat broke,
AND there is already a curtain rail in-situ, well, then these could be useful.
So the title of… Continue Reading
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