001 ProjectsInspired ProjectsPaint ProjectsProjects ShabbiliciousShabbilicious LinkShabbilicious FridayDecor LglimitlessdesignDiy Frame TrayEasy FrameForwardThis easy Frame Tray is made from a thrifted tray painted with Americana Decor Chalky Finish and some of my favorite tiles! It's a perfect gift or make one for yourself! The other night I went to The Home Depot to challenge IKEA. In the process of setting up a home office, I wanted to see if THD can serve me better. Flat packed stuff from IKEA is too obvious. No wonder there are so many IKEA "hacks" out there. Heck, even I created a downloadable ideaBook on how to "upcycle" IKEA. At The Home Depot, I do not need instructionsFor a home office, first thing one needs is a desk. When you build your own, you can make it fit exactly right. It's up to you to decide what kind of a desk it should it be. You can make it narrower or wider than "standard." It will depend on your exact needs and space constraints. Your designer within can choose materials, finishes, and colors.
The Home Depot supplies all of the components When it's made from scratch, all of the design decisions are totally up to you. The Home Depot provides the ingredients and you combine them based on personal preferences. You come up with your own unique solution! Everything in your home can proudly represent who you are. With a desk or a table, first thing to consider is what to use for the work surface. Here are some of the choices: solid maple, birch, and red oak planks in ¾" thickness; I can double it. I can also go with a hollow core door. Next step is to explore various leg options With the help of The Home Depot associate, I locate a few designated contenders such as a carved ornate and streamlined 1 ½" square wooden leg varieties. Then, he shows me dowels of various diameters. Once he leaves to assist someone else, I come across something called "goth post." There are also a few options in gas pipe -- I love the color of the coating. Galvanized fencing posts of various diameters could work as well.
I want my home office desk to be on casters IKEA choices do not even come close There are some workable storage solutions available at The Home Depot. Here's a designated display even. I like the wooden crates. They can be set on casters as well. I can combine two of them and make a cart. But then, I can make my own bins and shelves out of the same material as the desk. If it's made out of plywood, I can carry that through. Or I can use solid wood planks. That way it will be a set, a carefully considered composition. Something else comes to mind. Besides a desk and storage/shelving I need a place/wall to arrange work-in-progress in my home office No problem. The Home Depot has natural cork available in rolls. There is also such a thing as a Serrated Lay-in Ceiling Panels. I can create a pin-up surface over my desk.I don't need IKEA instructions. I can set up my home office using The Home Depot as a springboard for my own creativity. I would love to get your comments.
Maybe you can even share your latest projects with me. Alla is an architect on demand advising DIY home improvement enthusiasts online.Building a Giant Wooden Stacking Blocks GameToday I'm here to bring you a quick tutorial on how to build a really fun game to play during any season! So weather it's nice outside and you're looking for a great game to play out in the yard with friends and family, or something to liven up the party on a rainy day-- Giant Stacking Blocks. Skill Level: Under-Over Rating: Step 1: Cut Pieces Step 3: Position the Planks Line up your planks in rows of 3 just like you see below and then start on your next row, position the planks in the opposite direction from the ones below. Keep stacking them up as you go! We got ours to be about as big as me! Yes, we call the game Giant Jaynga here in our Chicago office. Feel free to use that when playing, I'd be delighted! It's a game of skill and patience, so be sure to take your time!
We decided to play a round here on a really rainy day, and it made for great fun! Just be careful how many you pull off the tower though! Not what you were looking for ?We followed these instructions and are having trouble getting our Jenga pieces to slide. We bought the smoothest 2x4's available and even sanded them. I'm about to use furniture polish on them ;)Thanks,Kim Kim ( CatLadyKim) We are going to be making our blocks soon. I have played this before but the wood was not stained or polished. Try rubbing them with some wax paper , on the flat sides to add a little wax. I know you can do this on a plastic or metal slide to make it "slide" a little faster. You wouldn't want the wood blocks to be too slick or have anything soak in and raise the grain. Just some ideas .... Strength, Storage Solutions and Styles That Fit Any Home We work hard to create cabinets that deliver superior strength, innovative organization solutions and designer inspired colors to fit any style.
In fact, the more you think about Thomasville, the more unthinkable buying anything less becomes. Thomasville cabinets are at the forefront of kitchen decor because we promise to bring you beauty, function, strength and performance, along with an unwavering dedication to provide easy, flexible design solutions that work for any vision.I didn’t steal the whole thing. Only one track of it, a stealer engine maybe. Me, Dogwalker Bill, that’s what they called me. Then they called me with a phone. They said I couldn’t walk dogs for them anymore and I promised not to lose any more. I promised not to like the sound of chains unlatching. Then they said that was why they were calling. Said they were trying to run a business. I had already let too many go. It was then I was fired. Anyways, I needed a job and was trying to work there at the Home Depot. Actually, I wanted to be a roofer cause it sounded good and I like heights, so I went to the Home Depot to get tools in my best sport coat, hoping to make a “good impression.”
There were mini orange forklifts beeping and just as many people in orange vests pounding on paint cans with rubber mallets or sawing smelly vinyl roller shades or walking slow behind you with their orange aprons tied to you by some invisible leash. I found the loneliest aisle I could and climbed an orange ladder to get to where they keep hex bolts for going around corners. Then it dawned on me. Why not work here? And so I went to the back looking for an office maybe, and the manager. He’d hand me a piece of paper and see if I got my own pen and when I don’t, I’d borrow his orange one, real polite. And when I can’t fill it out right there, he’d show me to some stool or chair where I could fill it out and give it back and then jump off a building. All of us together. Manager, pen, me, filled-out paper, and fast receding clouds. We’d form a pattern like skydivers in the shape of a crankshaft. I was going to go back there to do all that. Whenever you go where you’re not supposed to be it looks very interesting no matter what.
There’s a bathroom in the back of the grocery store I go to. To get there you have to pass through a gate made of long strips of heavy dirty plastic, the kind the back wheels of semi trucks have to keep the rain off the tires. You feel like unwanted rain when you go in there. At the back of the Home Depot was only a door, not orange, and no flaps. The room it opened to was big, empty. I felt like a mouse who’d just crawled into some old lady’s ranch house garage, the rakes and shovels labeled and dangling from yarn knots on church white pegboard. I scampered along the sawdust until I passed what I thought was the bathroom and another door. I knocked and somebody shouted “Command!” So I shouted “Get a job!” I was going to keep on, but the door opened. It was the manager with some nervous guy in a chair, almost a kid, and another guy: older, fatter than the manager, dressed like a cop. The cop laughed and patted my arm like we were friends saying, “Well, here he is.” He showed me the kid like he was mine.
Before any talk of payments, I was going to say the kid looked nothing like me. Plus, I was only here for the job. But I didn’t have to on account of them nodding so much. To them, I was on the job already. I tugged on the collars of my sport coat to make sure I was still making a good impression. I must have been because they told me real slow and real serious how the kid, head in hands, had taken something from the Home Depot. It left them no choice but to call me. The kid wouldn’t sign all the orange forms they wanted him to. They said more about security cameras and how glad they were I was there. The manager agreed and said that my partner was going to come for the paperwork afterwards like it was a question. He nodded more too. That must have been the cure, because once the cop shoved the kid up, out of the chair, and toward me—just like that, the pain in my chest was gone. When I turned around and walked back to the memory of the plastic strips, the kid was trailing me like a dropped leash.