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Grab a saw, a measuring tape, a piece of wood, and these step-by-step instructions for projects that will update and personalize your home. Projects include coffee tables, headboards, decorative boxes, steps for a deck, and even a garage workshop.

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Designing Stairs

This project will take the mystery out of designing stairs for your deck and have you quickly marking the stringers.

"… location for the stairway landing pad and cut stringers (the diagonal supports) to meet it … Time About seven hours to measure and cut the stringers and install the treads, not including … those in the middle will be open stringers . Mark and cut one stringer and use it as a template …"

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Can-Do Coffee Tables

… or reproduction sign, two 2x4s cut the length of the sign, and … the same size; adhere to plywood with spray upholstery adhesive. Cut a 30- x 50-inch piece of … employee at a home center cut the plywood top to size for you. Or … width of the arrangement; cut 3/4-inch-thick plywood to match for the base. For …

Inchworm Headboard

Cabin Crafter's precut wood headboard or 3/4 x 20 x 44-inch plywood Pattern in the pattern … Peppermint 65053, and Purple 65058 1. Transfer the pattern onto plywood ; cut out. Drill holes on the headboard where shown in the photograph …

How to Build Modular, Contemporary Built-ins

… drill cup holes and will be useful for other drilling tasks. Cut 2x4s for the base rails (G) to length. Cut enough base crosspieces … bottom of the cabinet to the wall. To make the filler panels, cut plywood to the height of the cabinet minus the base. If the walls …

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Building Exterior Steps

Step-By-Step Instructions for DIY Steps.

Wed, 14 Jan 2009|More from Home & Garden
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steps used to be a very intimidating thing, but now, with the precut step stringers like this, it's made a lot easier. With again by measuring the width of the opening and cutting the tread to 2 x 4 to serves as an anchor for the steps. We drill through it and into the bricks so that we can attach it with masonry screws. On each end, we now wanted the stringers . We cut an inch and a half of the top of the remaining 3 stringers and toenail them into the 2 x 4 at 16-inch intervals, a 1 x 8 nail across the front. Hold it altogether so that we can again put on the treads, in this case, 5/4 x 6-inch deck boards butted up against each other and overhanging the ends slightly. The risers are cut from the 1 x 8 stock to cover the remaining vertical openings, and our stairs are done. Oh, our steps just turned

Garage Workbench

Increase Workspace by Installing a Built-In Garage Workbench.

Wed, 14 Jan 2009|More from Home & Garden
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made up from short pieces of 2 x 4's and 3-quarter inch plywood cut into triangular gussets. With careful layout, you can get a whole lot of these out 1 sheet. The supports were assembled using wood glue and drywall screws before they go on the wall. On each end, we nailed a 2 x 4 to the sidewall, then we began attaching the gusseted supports to the studs along the back wall. This is where the open stud base really worked to our advantage. A 14-foot 2 x 4 is nailed across the front of the support, tieing everything together and giving us a sturdy base with the 3-quarter inch plywood top that we nailed on it. Okay. Now, I have a good sturdy workbench. And you may have noticed we've only made this 24 inches wide, so that it wouldn't be so wide that you couldn't reach any of the pegboard or shelf we're about to build. Another thing we did with the plywood is we allowed it to overhang 2-1/2 inches. This will make it a lot easier to clamp anything that we may need

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Edge Banding for Exposed Edges

… or white. Simply cut it to length and iron it in place. For a bookcase or shelf made from furniture-quality hardwood plywood , cut and attach molding or thin strips of solid wood. A quicker method is to apply wood-veneer edge banding. Like …

House Tours: Adding Style on a Budget

… striped sale fabric. The homeowner used a staple gun to attach batting around a 3/4-inch piece of plywood (it was cut to size at the hardwood store). She completed the look by wrapping the fabric around the headboard and adding buttons to …

6 Easy Steps to a Homemade Compost Bin

… lattice panels (each cut into 2 4X4-foot pieces) -- 4 2X4s cut 5 feet long -- 2 Large clothesline hooks -- Shovel -- Drill … measure Note: For convenience, we had the lattice panels and 2X4s cut by the staff at our local home- improvement center. You can …

Spooky Decorations for Halloween

… self-respecting witch goes anywhere without her broom. Let trick-or-treaters know she's home with a sign make from a precut wood plaque and a gold glitter paint pen. A ghoulish broom was created from green raffia or dried grasses attached to a weathered …

Wonderful Witch Decor for Halloween

… self-respecting witch goes anywhere without her broom. Let trick-or-treaters know she's home with a sign made from a precut wood plaque and a gold glitter paint pen. Create a life-size outdoor witch statue that is sure to creep out the neighbors …

Halloween Outdoor Makeovers

… self-respecting witch goes anywhere without her broom. Let trick-or-treaters know she's home with a sign make from a precut wood plaque and a gold glitter paint pen. Create a ghoulish broom by adding green raffia or dried grasses to one end of a weathered …