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Removing paint and putty from old windows Our Victorian house has its original windows. They have lots of divided lites of different sizes glazed with lovely old wavy glass. Every…

The setup shown in the drawing shows how we use a couple of sawhorses, some long screws, and a few pieces of plywood to make a spinner for supporting a…

I am working on a low-budget kitchen remodel. The cabinet frames and doors are in good shape, but the carcases are made of flimsy particleboard. The bottoms of the base…

Before I made this jig, I checked the fit of my coped crown molding the conventional way by climbing the ladder and holding the coped piece in place against the…

Before caulking in a corner, I cut the end of the nozzle at a 45° angle, then draw a solid line with a felt-tip pen on top of the 45°cut…

Running new wires through existing walls is a routine task for electricians who work on remodeling projects. But as I point out in my article about electricians' tools, I don't…

My new living room sports a cathedral ceiling with a flat center section and a sloped section on each side. This design  left me with two long joints to tape…

I use my compound-miter saw all the time, so I generate lots of sawdust. By taking advantage of a bench located against an outside wall of my shop, I built…

Arched openings add a nice touch to a doorway, an alcove, or even a piece of built-in furniture. Architects and builders typically choose the easy-to-draw, equal-rise- and-run section of a…

In an ideal world, all the trades involved in building a house would be finished by the time the really delicate, vulnerable woodwork begins. But it doesn’t always work out…