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Interior Projects
The metal hood over most ovens and cook top ranges serves several different purposes in most modern kitchens. Almost all range hoods include a lamp or bulb which shines direct light down onto the stove so that you can more easily see what you are cooking and almost all ranges include a fan or...
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I’ve found that one of the easiest ways to really update a room’s look and feel is to replace or at least paint all the baseboard molding and trim around the doors in a room. If I have more time I usually go ahead and install painted crown molding around the room as well....
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If you live in a climate that gets cold, dry winters then your home might be equipped with a whole house, or central, humidifier. These whole house humidifiers are designed to put moisture into the air during winter months when you’re running your forced air heat. The humidifiers are usually added on to the...
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If you’re going to remodel a kitchen or upgrade a bathroom in your house then chances are that you’re going to be faced with the job of removing the old tile from a floor and replacing it with something more modern. Removing the tile from a floor can be a long, messy and sometimes...
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When I wrote about removing wallpaper in my small second bathroom I alluded to the fact that you be in for some surprises under your wallpaper as your tear it down. I mentioned this because I actually found a few different things in the tiny room that were surprising, interesting and just plain weird....
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Removing wallpaper is one of those messy and tedious jobs that nearly every homeowner grumbles through at least once. Most people tend to do it right after they move into a new home and want to remove the wallpaper from a previous owner or they want to do it right before they move out...
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Squeaking doors and squeaky door hinges are common problems that everyone has experienced in a house or apartment at one time or another. We generally have two ways of dealing with these annoying squeaks: we either learn to ignore them or we squirt some sort of grease or lubricant on the hinges and hope...
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My basement finishing project is almost done! I took part of my unfinished basement and updated the partially finished room and completely framed out and finished another small room. I have lots of photos and lots of different ideas I want to get down about my experience with finishing my basement myself. I’ve made...
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Sometimes when you’re working on a home improvement project you need to throw away the rules and get a little creative. I recently had to do this when I was refinishing my basement and had to frame out a room while still allowing easy access to a drain clean out. I could have just...
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When you think about cleaning the bathroom you probably don’t immediately think about cleaning your exhaust fan. The fan is usually high on the wall or in the ceiling and difficult to get to, but it’s still a major source of dirt, residue and bacteria in your bathroom. Bathroom exhaust fans are designed to...
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The sales and marketing of Christmas lights and decorations is only superseded by the even larger sales and marketing of wild and clever plastic containers and gadgets that are meant to be used for the storing Christmas lights and decorations. I’ve tried several different clever containers and methods for storing my Christmas lights from...
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After putting up the drywall and finishing the walls in my basement room it was finally time to apply some primer and paint. I was going to just use a regular paint roller, but I had a unique chance to try out the new Wagner TurboRoll Power Paint Roller and I’m glad I did....
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After refinishing most of the drywall in my basement remodeling project I decided to try to tackle two little areas of drywall where my drywall tape had “bubbled up”. There was actually a layer or two of dried joint compound over these two spots, but they had popped out from the wall a little...
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After I had put up the drywall in my basement refinishing project it was time for me to finish my walls with joint compound and tape and make them nice and smooth. I’ll be the first to admit that I wasn’t an expert in joint compound when I started this, and I’m certainly no...
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Like many home improvement projects, hanging drywall is one half art, one half science and one half luck. I learned this first-hand as I completed hanging the drywall in my first real full room renovation. I’ve mentioned before that I’m refinishing a room in my basement that was framed out and paneled years ago....
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Now that we’re into some of the hottest days of the summer those of you with central air conditioners might be finding that on the really hot days your home isn’t staying as cool as it once did. Maybe you’re even finding that your central AC isn’t able to keep up with a stretch...
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If you want to help the environment by saving water and save yourself some money then you should consider checking all your bathroom fixtures for leaks. If they do leak then you’ll want to repair those leaks as quickly as possible. This is one home improvement project that just about anyone can get a...
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I’ve shown you ways to completely hide your flat screen TV, but a lot of people aren’t interested in hiding their entire TV as much as they want to hide the television wires, cords and cables. The easiest and fastest way to get your TV cords out of sight in most cases is to...
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I’ve been doing a lot of home improvement projects around my main bathroom lately and most of the work has been DIY plumbing projects, but this time I thought I’d show you how I took out an old dated bathroom light and installed a new light fixture on the wall. The process is relatively...
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I have a combination bathtub and shower and over the past three months or so I noticed that whenever I turned the knob to “shower” I still had a fair amount of water coming out of the tub faucet. Basically, water was leaking from the shower valve and coming out my tub faucet. My...
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My big home improvement project for this year will be the start of a large basement remodeling project. I’m going to start with a partially finished room we already have in the basement and then slowly expand the finishing to other parts of my basement that are currently concrete and cinder blocks. I’ve never...
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With the arrival of the colder weather comes the inevitable worrying about whether your heating system furnace will actually start up and run this year reliably, or whether you’ll end up being stuck in the cold (literally!) in the middle of the night one snowy January evening. If you have any doubts about your...
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This is the last of three posts about installing baseboard molding. We’re finally ready to install the new baseboard molding. We’ve just removed the old baseboard molding and trim and we’ve installed the new trim around the doorways. Just like when we installed the trim, you’ll want a nail gun or a hammer with...
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We’ve had a few days of warm weather here on the East Coast lately and my wife and I have been running the ceiling fans in most of our rooms to keep the rooms cool without having to turn on our central air conditioner quite yet. Even though its been relatively mild outside we...
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This is kind of an optional step, but trim around a doorway really helps tie a room together. First you’ll have to read Step 1 and remove the old baseboard molding and you’ll want to use the same methods for removing any trim that might already be around the doorways of a room. My...
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Baseboard molding, the wood trim that lines a room where the walls meet the floor, is an often an over-looked part of any room, but it can really make a big difference in the overall look and feel of a room. Baseboards not only serve as a decorative function, but they also protect the...
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About two weeks ago my wife and I were sitting in our dining room when I noticed that one of our 45 year old original baseboards was cracked. I should have kept quiet, but I mumbled to myself, “Hmm, I guess I should replace that baseboard…”
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Like a lot of people I used this weekend to take down the Christmas decorations, take the Christmas tree out to the curb and generally put the house back into “post-holiday” status. It can be a lengthy process, taking all the decorations and lights and putting them back into boxes and packaging so they...
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If your home has ceiling fans, then you know how absolutely disgusting and dirty they can get after running for 24 hours a day for months at a time, especially if your home has central AC or forced hot air heat. Ceiling fans naturally move the air in the room and by doing so...
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It’s only gotten cold here on the East Coast in the past two weeks so I really wasn’t thinking about how efficient my forced air heating system was until I really had depend on the heat every day and night. I knew that the previous owner (supposedly a carpenter by trade) had begun to...
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