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Thursday, December 31, 2015
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The Proper Way to Use a Plunger
If your toilet’s overflowing or your sink’s stopped up, it’s time to take the plunge! Up to about 90 percent of clogs...
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Some People Just Don’t Think Over Their Renovation Decisions, Do They?
Some People Just Don’t Think Over Their Renovation Decisions, Do They? What do you think about Renovation #12…?
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Art Barn by Robert Young Architecture & Interiors
Designed by for a pair of artists, this 10,000-square-foot residence located in Greenwich, Connecticut, features a green screen that creates a living skin over the majority of the concrete-block structure. Designed for a pair of artists, this 10,000-square-foot “Art Barn” features a “green screen…
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2015 Year In Review: Favorite Posts
A Year in Review: Favorite Blog Posts
I can’t believe that 2015 is coming to an end. Where has the time gone? Is it just me, or did the year fly by? I guess part of the reason it flew by so quickly is that I’ve been busy chasing around 3 little boys who are growing before my eyes, and my little Jonah especially keeps me on my toes. It was a great year, and I always enjoy sharing a year in review of favorite blog posts.
Most Visited Posts of All-Time
Let’s start with your favorite posts, based on my web stats/analytics.
My most popular post of all time continues to be my tutorial for how to paint furniture from a few years ago.
This post went viral, which was a shock because I had just started blogging and didn’t know what on earth I was doing, and didn’t expect anyone to even read it. Even though my photography was atrocious (I’ve since added the pictures seen above), and I was learning the ropes of blogging, I owe a lot of blogging “success” to that post. It’s funny, as a blogger you just never know what’s going to do well and what posts are going to have crickets.
My other most visited posts of all time are:
How to Whitewash a Brick Fireplace
How to Stencil a Rug on the Cheap
Fabric Covered Diaper Box (Storage Solution)
My top 5 most popular post from the past year
Swap it Like it’s Hot: Thrift Store Transformations
Boy Mom Madness Series: Boys Bedroom
And my personal favorites
My trip to the HGTV Dream Home. This goes without saying — it was such a fun experience and definitely a highlight of my year.
Our DIY Kid’s Art Table. My kids loved this project, and I love doing special things for them, so this is definitely one of my favorite projects from the past year.
Our trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains and our beach vacation to Hilton Head Island. I always enjoy sharing our travel experiences, and our annual family vacations have a special place in my heart.
Our dining room makeover. This room was a labor of love and I was so happy to finish it! Since it’s one of the first rooms you see when you enter our home, I really worked hard to make it presentable.
DIY Nursery String Art Tutorial. This was one of my favorite projects for Jonah’s room. I love how easy string art is, but at the same time it can make a big impact.
If you have a favorite post of mine from the past year, I would love to know what it is just so I can have an idea of what types of posts you love seeing the most. I would also love to know what the highlight of your year was! Leave a comment and let me know. Happy New Year!
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
A Fast and Low-Cost Way to Prevent Frozen Pipes
Homeowners who live in seasonally cold climates dread having their pipes freeze. At the very least, a frozen pipe can...
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Genius! The Free Sled You Can Craft in Under 10 Minutes
For kids, nothing beats the thrill of the first snowy day of the season. While they get busy building a snowman, you ...
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Monday, December 28, 2015
DIY Confetti Poppers for New Year’s Eve
Easy, Inexpensive DIY Confetti Poppers
Just in case you guys have more exciting plans than we do for New Year’s Eve, I thought I would share this fun little tutorial for DIY Confetti Poppers! These are super easy and inexpensive to make, and they would be perfect for a New Year’s party or even just for the kids to throw if they stay up to watch the ball drop at midnight.
Supplies you’ll need:
- Paper towel rolls or bath tissue rolls
- Scissors
- Tape
- Tissue paper in the color or pattern of your choice
- Thin ribbon or twine
- Confetti (You can make this yourself or purchase it by the bag.)
How to Make DIY Confetti Poppers
First, cut your bath tissue roll in half (or cut your paper towel roll in segments) — I made mine about 2 inches wide, but you could make them longer if you’d prefer.
Next, cut a segment of tissue paper that is wide enough to wrap around your piece of paper towel roll, and about 3 times the length. Center your roll and attach the edge of the tissue paper to it with tape.
Then, roll the tissue paper around the paper towel roll and then tape the other edge in place.
Secure one side with a piece of ribbon or twine, tying it tightly in a knot. Make sure to pull it very tight so there is no gap that confetti can spill out of.
Pour confetti into the open end of your popper, filling the tube as much or as little as you’d like. This just depends on how much vacuuming you want to do later. (Haha!)
Finally, tie the other end tightly with ribbon or twine, and run scissors down the ribbon to curl it or you can tie it in a bow. Just tear one of the ends open when you’re ready to throw the confetti!
These party blowers, “Cheers” coasters, and confetti balloons I found online would go perfect with these too!
What are your plans for New Year’s? I’ll probably be sound asleep by the time the clock strikes midnight. I’m pretty wild and crazy these days. Ha!
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Furniture Assembly by Handyman Services
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Furniture Assembly, Should You Consider Handyman Services?
Have your furniture assembly done by a skilled handyman carpenter and have your furniture put together quickly and professionally. This lets you enjoy your furniture earlier and safely. You also can use the time you save by having the assembly be done for you to enjoy quality time with family or other projects you are better skilled at.
You could take up the challenge and put the furniture together yourself. Some of the things to consider why to use a skilled handyman to assemble your furniture areas is as follows.
You could run into the chance of missing a step causing a timely re-do, like not applying glue to certain parts. You could attach the wrong components, not that uncommon with the difficult to translate directions. This could force you to break apart glued parts after they’ve dried. Not a fun task. You may not have the tools to complete the assembly. This can be extremely frustrating to find out you may need power tools to fasten the furniture together that could cost the same as the furniture itself.
A costly surprise you don’t want to deal with.
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If you have heard of someone or done some furniture assembly yourself, you know that the process is not as simple as the manufacturers promote in the advertisement. I have been frustrated, as maybe you have, with some of the terrible directions of assembling items you look forward to using right away. Years of putting items together for woodworking and cabinetry has taught me the quick route to how items fit together naturally.
I have been able to add additional supports and fastening that even the manufacturer hasn’t offered as an option. Furniture manufactures don’t offer extra reinforcement to make the sale price less or the packaging convenient for shipping. I help get past these roadblocks and also some you may not realize you may run into.
You might forget a step in the process
You read back and forth, up and down through the instructions written in a language not for human consumption. You feel ready to put together great new office desk you just picked up from your favorite big name warehouse store. You move confidently through the directions feeling you can put this together without much though. Now it’s the moment of truth.
You stand up that rich deep walnut stained bookcase off the floor. Then the glass doors fall to the ground and shatter into a million pieces. You forget to read the sub-assembly of how the glass doors need to interlock into the bookcase frame. You forgot a step in the assembly process and now you have spent good money on covered shelves that have been a total waste of time on your part to assemble.
A handyman with a systematic approach to furniture assembly is always a good choice. Handyman services will have the right tools and the professional experience to save you the aggravation of having to ruin a piece of furniture. Instead of having to re-buy a piece from your furniture assembly mishap, call on a handyman / carpenter to make the assembly and installation process easy and enjoyable.
You might assemble the wrong parts in the wrong order.
Both sides look the same, cabinet doors look the same inside and out. The knock down furniture manufacturers make the pieces look strangely alike. Is the shell face this way or the other? Do the dowels fit in either way? Wow, you can get confused real fast putting together furniture.
Before you know it you’ve put that desk or chair together, upside down and backwards. It can be really frustrating if you assemble furniture on in the wrong order or mistakenly the wrong marked parts. You’re friends won’t let you forget your mishap either.
You might not have the right tools
Not having the right selection of tools can not only stop your furniture assembly it can damage the piece if try to use the wrong item for the tool needed. Using a butter knife for a flathead screwdriver is asking for a deep gouge in the side of your furniture.
As simple as it might appear in the directions, assemble-yourself furniture still needs patience to read the directions and to utilize tools that are the norm for a cabinetmaker to use. A small list of tools you should at the ready before you start are;
- Hammer
- Wrenches
- Level(s)
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Full set of screwdrivers
- Pozidriv
- Nut drivers
- Utility knife
- Putty knife
- Allen wrenches
- Pliers
- Battery operated screwgun
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Clamps
- Bar / Pipe
- Spring
- Extra wood or white glue.
I could list more but this would be the least I would have on hand to start furniture assembly.
You can see taking on a furniture assembly project from a pack set you buy at the big box store or online can save you a lot of money at the register. If you’re able and have the patience, tools and a little hand skills you can put these sets together from minutes to several hours without too much hassle.
If you have a difficult time doing things using your hands, don’t have a good selection of tools as I listed above and have some spatial relation issues. You may want to heavily consider hiring a handyman service to come and assemble your items and use your time saved to thinking about if the item will actually fit where you thought it would. It wouldn’t be the first time an assembled furniture piece didn’t fit in that “perfect” spot.
Contact us today to get your free no obligation evaluation of the work you’re in need of getting done. No job is too small, call (339) 970-9825 or email us (handy4homes@gmail.com) today.
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