My wife and I use headphones quite a bit and sometimes they just get in the way laying around on a desk when you’re trying to do something. So this quick and easy build provides a dedicated place for them to hang in the corner where they are both easily accessible and out of the way. So if you’ve got a few parts and a couple hours, you can put this together real quick. This is a quick build. There are just a couple of steps. Cut each board …
Retractable Jewelry Shelf
My wife didn’t really have a “good” storage place for jewelry, and she had to go out of town for a few days, so I thought I’d make a place for her to store some rings, earrings, and necklaces that would be a dedicated spot close to where she gets ready in the morning. I scoured the internet for cool ideas and settled on modifying an existing plan that I found. The original shelf is called the “secret floating shelf” located on rogueengineer.com. The spot where this shelf needed …
Pipe Pour Over Coffee Maker
If you’ve read some of our previous posts, you’ll have noticed a trend. People in our house love coffee. So this design isn’t anything particularly groundbreaking or original here, but I saw some neat concepts similar to this and thought “I’d like to give that a go.” So without further ado: the Pipe Pour Over. First: Cut the board down to size. For mine, I used a 2″ x 10″ x 16″ piece and it’s definitely on the larger size. I ultimately added in a coffee filter holder on the …
Steel & Wood Coffee Shelf
My wife and I love coffee. And not just “good” coffee… I’ll drink any kind of coffee. It doesn’t have to be grown in the Himalayas to make me happy. French press, Starbucks, Keurig’s, percolator over a campfire… I don’t care. So in our quest to learn how to make good coffee at home (because it’s WAY cheaper to do so), we end up stocking up on a lot of coffee beans and bags and containers. This little project was a way to organize all that next to our coffee …
LED Closet Lighting
When we moved into our house a few years ago, none of the storage closets had any lights. That makes finding things in there very hard, and I’m already bad at looking for stuff. So I decided these closets needed lights. I wanted something that would turn on automatically when you open the door, disperse light around the closet evenly and not just in the top, and wouldn’t take too much energy to run if the door was left open by accident. So here’s what I came up with. Its …
Salt Lamp
Well I figured since the last few tutorials were kinda hard, it was time to do a simple LED project that I think might be an easier starting project for electronics. This project is a simple switch from an old, incandescent bulb to a new, efficient LED strip. This project is based on a pink salt lamp, which the internet generally refers to as a “Himalayan Salt Lamp”, but mine is technically from a salt mine in Germany, so I don’t think I can call it Himalayan. I got this lamp years …
Fountain and Pond Design
I’ve always been fascinated with ponds but a huge, in-ground pond wouldn’t fit or work well with our simple backyard landscaping, so I came up with the idea of adding a pond in the middle of our raised beds with the same look and layout to complement them. Hence the stained wood frame. Building a pond is not really that difficult, but it does require a good part of a Saturday and quite a bit of digging. It doesn’t look deep in the picture, but it goes down below ground …