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Build a Mirrored Coffee Table
Create a focal point that reflects your creativity. The base of this coffee table is a simple-to-build wooden box. Bevelled 12-by-12 mirrored tiles make it shine, and no cutting required.
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Create a Laundry Bag
Why is it that laundry seems to have a life of its own? Everyone has had mysteriously disappearing socks, somehow "eaten" by their washer or dryer. These easy-to-make laundry bags,sewn from unbleached canvas drop cloths, will not only helporganize your family's clothes...
Skill: Intermediate
Time: 1 hour
Create a Wall Hanging Clothes Rack
Using an ENERGY STAR qualified clothes dryer will help lower your electricity bill -- and benefit the environment as well. But you can save even more by damp-drying your clothes. The indoor laundry rack shown here is made from FSC wood and painted with low-VOC paint. It works...
Skill: Intermediate
Time: 3 hours
Create an Outdoor Privacy Screen
This hinged screen can conceal a multitude of outdoor eyesores, from your central-air unit to your composter, garbage bins and recycling boxes — even your lawn mower and collection of yard tools. Made from FSC wood and painted in the colour of your choice, it's simple...
Skill: Intermediate
Time: 5 hours
Create a Vine-Covered Privacy Screen With Ready-Made Materials
It's easy to make your backyard a lush, private retreat. Start with ready-made trellises, add quick-growing annual vines and before long you'll be relaxing in a cozy garden nook.
Skill: Intermediate
Time: 2 hours
Customize a Lampshade
Why throw out a tired lampshade when you can refresh it? This lampshade has been recovered using eco-chic wallpaper from Graham & Brown. For an even more eco-friendly transformation, use a compact fluorescent light bulb.
Skill: Beginner
Time: 2 hours
Create a Planter Box
This free-standing planter box is made in part from FSC plywood, and the white paint doesn't off-gas volatile organic compounds (VOCs), so the air in your home stays free of pollutants.
Skill: Intermediate
Time: 4 hours
Create a Notice Board
This easy-to-construct cork board framed with vibrant wallpaper from eco-chic company Graham & Brown makes a style statement as well as being useful for the whole family.
Skill: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Installing a Toilet
If you're installing a new toilet in a new location, you'll need to run (or have someone run) a water supply line and a drainpipe, which must be connected to the drain/vent system in compliance with code. Even if you're just replacing an existing toilet, you should...
Skill: Beginner
Time: 2 hours
Make a Display Strip
Making this display strip is as easy as A, B, C. We simply used metal strips, available at The Home Depot, painted them to match the room's trim and attached it to the wall at a height low enough for a child to access.
Skill: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Painting Jambs, Casings and Trim
Painting the trim around exterior doors requires special care so you don't get paint on the door itself or on nearby trim. Remember, this is the entrance to your house–you'll want it to look especially nice. As with all exterior trim, select a top quality exterior...
Skill: Beginner
Time: 3 hours
Installing Baseboard - Part 3: Little Pieces
With the moulding installed along the first three walls (having completed Parts 1 and 2), cut and install the small pieces required between the wall and door frames.
Skill: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Installing a Ledger on Siding
Installing a ledger on the house is the first step in laying out an attached deck. The ledger, which is actually a header for the joist, establishes the height of the deck and transfers the weight of the deck to the foundation of the house.
Skill: Intermediate
Time: 3 hours
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