Build candle holders from leftover hardwood flooring
In addition to wrapping your cold-air return grill, you can make door trim and other projects that make use of factory-finished hardwood scraps. There’s also nothing stopping you from planing off that...
View ArticleBuild a cold-air return frame from leftover hardwood flooring
After installing a new hardwood floor, we just couldn’t face reinstalling the old metal cold-air return grill. Yet throwing it out seemed wasteful, too. That’s where this wooden frame comes in. It...
View ArticlePush and play noisemaker toy
I’ll warn you right up front: this push mower makes lots of noise, but it was fun to build and kids love it. That said, in my experience, noise is exactly what all kids like in a good plaything. As...
View ArticleBuild a custom cutting board
All woodworkers, at one time or another, will try their hand at making a cutting board. Both of the boards here are quick and fun projects that use small pieces of wood that are too nice to throw out....
View ArticleRolling shop cabinet
I suspect that all woodworkers love getting new tools. Opening the box, putting the parts together, trying out the tool-maybe even reading the owner’s manual. But for those who work in a small shop,...
View ArticleBuild a curious bookcase
A child’s imagination can turn ordinary objects into exciting and creative things. They look at a big cardboard box and see a fortress; they turn a plain milk carton into a rocket ship. When I decided...
View ArticleSeedling Shelter
While it’s not easy to spread SPF-30 sunscreen lotion on your young garden plants, those little guys sometimes need a bit of shelter from the sun. But you can use some wooden SPF instead. A lath house...
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Folding beach chair
Folding, canvas camping chairs are everywhere. They’re light, inexpensive and they collapse into small, cylindrical packages. They’re also flimsy, easily broken and bad for your back. I made a wooden...
View ArticleBuild a sailboat sandbox
My family loves a day at the beach—the hot sun, the cool shade of an umbrella, the feeling of sand between their toes, and watching the sailboats along the horizon. Yet for all those other days, when...
View ArticleTime-honoured toy: Block wagon
I played with blocks when I was a kid. So did my parents, and so did my grandparents. I expect that my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will as well. Like skipping ropes or a tire swing, building...
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