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NewAge Products Pro 3.0 Series Storage Cabinet 10-piece Set (Review and Installation)

Projects, Reviews, The Workshop, Tools / April 10, 2022

NewAge Products manufactures various items from outdoor kitchen sets to garage storage solutions. In this article, I’ll cover their Pro 3.0 Series 10-Piece Storage Cabinet. From deliver to installation. Damage Upon Arrival Things definitely didn’t start out well. Unfortunately, multiple cabinets had sustained some damage. I promptly contacted NewAge, and they did send replacement doors […]

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How to Install a Bi-Fold Door

Projects, The Cabin / April 7, 2022

In this post we’ll go through the steps to install a bi-fold door. The installation time took me around 20 minutes. Everything is fairly straight forward, however this is the first bi-fold door I’ve ever installed and it did have to figure out a couple things along the way. I’ll provide some of these lessons

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Custom Wood Wall Plates for Nest Thermostats

Projects, The Cabin / March 24, 2022

After we bought our cabin, I wanted to make sure to install a smart thermostat. This would allow me to control the temperature setting from anywhere with the app on my phone. If we’re heading over to the cabin in the winter, I can pre-heat the cabin so it’s warmed up before we get there.

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How to Build a Hidden Door Pool Cue Rack

Projects, The Cabin, Wood Projects / December 30, 2021

This is another in-progress project I’m working on for the cabin. With the scrap wood left over from the Murphy bed cabinet I had enough to build a door. There’s a few kits available on the market for hidden doors, and specifically hidden doors with pool cue racks, but one’s I came across started out

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How to Build a Barrel Stave Pool Cue Rack

Projects, The Cabin, Wood Projects / December 29, 2021

This is another in-progress project that I have underway. This post will be updated as I continue the project. Here’s a dry fit of what I’m building: A temporary screw to hold the triangle that will most likely be replaced with a wood dowel setup. Also using the bottom mount of a pool cue rack

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How to Build and Install a Murphy Bed Kit

Projects, The Cabin, Wood Projects / December 16, 2021

I recently purchased a Rockler I-Semble Murphy bed kit. This kit comes with all of the hardware needed to build a Murphy wall bed, minus the wood to build the cabinet. It also comes with dimensions for the plywood cuts to build the cabinet. I took advantage of using the cutting service at our local

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How Much Does It Cost to Have a Pole Building Built?

Projects, The Workshop / November 22, 2020

Variable and Total Cost, Things to Look For, and Tips on Hiring a Contractor In this article, I cover the build process of our 24×30 foot “daylight” pole building. I’ll provide detailed first hand experience. How much we paid to have this shop built, only doing the pad site prep ourselves and having everything else

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How To Install a ChargePoint Home Flex (Home EV Charging Upgrade)

Automotive, Electric Vehicles, Projects / October 7, 2020

Over the last couple of years my previous GE EVSE has had some intermittent problems. I had been eyeing the ChargePoint EVSE’s for a while now as a possible replacement. That time has come, follow along as I swap out my existing EVSE with a brand new ChargePoint Home Flex. Using the existing wiring from

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Archery Backstop – Step by Step DIY and Lessons Learned

Archery, Projects / May 7, 2020

I built a previous archery backstop that didn’t survive, so it was time to a build a new one. For the first archery backstop I built I had some extra landscape timber lying around, so this is what I decided to use. I initially built it to where it could be moved as a portable

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Home Drive-In Theater (or Driveway Theater?)

Automotive, Projects / April 28, 2020

The Screen In the past, we’ve setup chairs for our screen projector, but to take advantage of earlier sunsets in color weather, the next evolution was for a home drive-in theater, or should we call it a driveway theater? This is a screen I bought many years ago off of eBay. At our previous house

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