A blog of a variety of projects
Projects that involve reusing materials to repair or repurpose something.
I wasn’t sure where to put this design review, so it has been sitting here a long time since I wrote it. Hopefully this is still useful. It’s possible the company has already fixed these issues in the intervening years, but I fixed my razor instead of buying a new one, so I wouldn’t know. After my razor broke, I replaced the screw tightening mechanism with an over-center latch and I’ve been pretty happy with it.
This On Stage double-decker Z-shaped piano stand is nice, but lacking in adjustments. Guitar Center sells them for about $150, and I got mine in open-box condition while there was a sale for a bit less. Especially for the price, it feels robust and just like a good all-around surface…
Early this year we finished remodeling our upstairs bathroom. It was really important to get this done before having a baby, so we hired contractors to do the majority of the work. The old bathroom had a full-width built-in counter in the first room and a metal tub shower with…
This is a simple little shim to help mount a door hinge slightly further away from the door frame stop moulding.
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…
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…
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…
We have a Yamaha player piano that I have been using off and on for around 15 years. It needed some work to maintain the hammers and make sure it can record correctly.
I was getting tired of soldering new a new cable on my headphones every few months, so I replaced the cable with a female 3.5mm headphone jack on the headphones. This is a cheap and easy improvement to any pair of wired headphones.
My office chair was pretty nice with a spot for a headrest to attach, but mine came without the headrest accessory. I decided it was worth a bit of effort, so I cobbled one together.
