This is a simple little shim to help mount a door hinge slightly further away from the door frame stop moulding.
Published 2024-07-22
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Published 2024-06-04
House project blog: Kitchen floor molding
Since we have moved in to our new house, I have been putting off finishing the kitchen cabinets with trim. I finally got around to working on it and finished the floor molding. First, there is a gap between the pantry and the wall. The wall wasn’t plumb, so we…
Published 2024-03-27
King of Flavor MSG Shaker V2
Now with additional food safety! Fuiyoh!
Published 2024-03-04
House project blog: closets
When we moved into our new house, we were downsizing a bit. Until we get around to finishing the basement, the finished space will be about 60% of our old house. It is nice to have less house to work on and clean, but we were anxious about storage space…
Published 2024-02-02
House project blog: kitchen cabinets
This was a long time ago now, but we have been too busy on uninteresting repair projects for me to be able to keep up with blogging. I started writing this near the end of last year, when our kitchen was nearly done. We have been living with it at…
Published 2023-10-25
House project blog: really good contractors
This project was huge, and it required so much work that there was no way I could have gotten it done myself. We hired a general contractor to demolish the ceiling, build the new wall, and redo the electrical wiring in the kitchen, while I focused on removing the existing…
Published 2023-09-17
Door handle wall bumper
I was looking around our house for things to fix, and I saw a lot of places where there was a small hole in the drywall caused by a door handle. I was going to patch all of these with drywall, but I knew it would eventually happen again, even…
Published 2023-09-07
Re-tiling guest bathroom shower
I decided to re-tile our guest bathroom myself and hire a refinishing company to refinish the bathtub. I finished this project about a month ago, but I’ve been too busy at the other house to write it up until now.
Published 2023-07-18
House project blog: take it apart
I’m falling behind on blog posts about house projects. There has been a lot going on, and we have been making quite a bit of quick progress. Starting a couple weeks ago and ending last week I have been working on demolishing our new kitchen. The cabinets were old and…
Published 2023-06-27
Ikea hack – Pegboard lamp mount v2
After receiving some feedback and doing additional testing, I designed a new version of my Ikea Tertial pegboard mount that is much stronger and easier to print.