Category : Architecture : Home & Garden

Types of Wooden Sheds

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Imaginative builders use wood to create sheds in an endless variety of colors, shapes and sizes. However, regardless of scale or aesthetics, all wooden sheds share universal structural components. Variation among basic structural features leads to substantial differences between sheds, particularly

How to Build a Makeshift Closet

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Some older homes were built without closets, relying on large free-standing armoires or clothes chests for hanging clothes and storage. Other homes may have limited closet space or you may be converting a room that was not intended for use as a bedroom. Whatever the situation, you can build a makesh

How to Repair a Warped Floor

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Warped wood floors are usually caused by moisture damage. There's generally no way to repair those boards that have warped, and they have to instead be replaced. Getting the damaged boards out, and the new ones in, requires some alterations to the boards, as the tongue-and-groove connections on the

How to Build a Small Egg Turner

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Incubators are used to regulate the temperature of fertilized eggs before being hatched. In nature, the mother will heat the eggs by sitting on them. But once they are moved from the mother's nest, the eggs must be heated using light. To make sure these eggs receive plenty of heat, they must be turn

Cutting Crown Molding Angles

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Cutting angles on crown molding is not easy to do only because crown molding sits on a wall at a 45 degree tilt. The 45 degree tilt of the crown molding forces you to cut crown molding angles both on the face and the profile of the crown molding. Luckily, some power saws, such as miter saws, have th

DIY Suspended Ceilings

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Suspended ceilings are designed to hang below the roof or floor deck. They are typically made up of pieces of metal arranged in a grid pattern. Acoustical ceiling tiles are installed within the grid, along with various types of light fixtures. You can easily create a variety of looks with a suspende

Do it Yourself Cedar Shingles

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If you want to install cedar shingles to your home's roof or walls, there are a few things that you should know before beginning. Cedar shingles (roof) and cedar shakes (walls) will last for 20 to 30 years and provide complete protection and beauty for your home, providing that they are installed co

How to Make a Drywell

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Many properties suffer from poor drainage. Whether it be rainwater from your gutters or just water that collects on the surface of your yard, this can be unsightly and possibly harmful to your property if the collection points are near to your foundations. One reasonably easy solution is to build a

How to Glue Down Carpet Tiles

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Like any flooring option, carpet tiles have their pros and cons. Carpet tiles allow you to create different patterns, like checkerboards, using the same carpet with the nap facing opposite directions. On the other hand, you have to lay each tile down one at a time, which leaves plenty of room for mi

How to Lay a Hard Wood Floor

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Hard wood floors are among the more complicated types of flooring you can lay, but many people consider it worth the trouble. Unlike tile, which is laid out from the center of the room and outward, wood flooring starts at one side of the room and moves across it in courses. You hide the flooring sta