There are three big benefits to building your own kitchen cabinets: Customization and quality, and affordability. When you build your own cabinets, you can choose better materials. When you build your own cabinets, extras like crown moulding or open shelves or an odd...

One of the big reasons you'd want to build your own kitchen cabinets is to be able to customize the size.  So I decided to create a template that is easy to adjust and customize on our sister site, Shelf Help, that has a free design configurator.  Here' the links:...

There are three big benefits to building your own kitchen cabinets: Customization and quality, and affordability. To help with customization, we created this tutorial as a template on Shelf Help, where you can use the design configurator for free to figure all the...

The free plans for this dollhouse are designed by me and available for free on our sister site, Shelf Help.  You can cut the plywood yourself or have us do it for you through the Shelf Help link.  If you do choose to cut your own plywood, also add edge banding to the...

photo by Estate of Bliss LLC Want to make your living room instantly gorgeous (and tidier)? A barn door door console can change everything! Instead of paying over $1000, have you thought about building it yourself? No particle board You choose the finish Rustic look...

We love these fun, festive pumpkins at the front door!  They make festive planters or treat holders for trick or treaters. This is a very easy DIY project, perfect for a beginner.  These pumpkins are fun to customize, and they are almost impossible to mess up! You can...

We love these fun, festive pumpkins at the front door!  They make festive planters or treat holders for trick or treaters. This is a very easy DIY project that you can make using just a few tools. Here's the steps:

Our Modern Farmhouse Collection of plans has been quite popular, making living spaces more functional and beautiful everywhere, all with just a few tools.  All the rustic charm, but in a fresh, new form.  We love it! We love it so much, we are adding a NEW plan to...

YESTERDAY My sister called me and said she wanted to build my niece a new bed in the next 24 hours.  She wanted something beautiful, sturdy, but also inexpensive and simple to build.  So we got our heads together and designed a 2x4 framed bed (the plans are below)....