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Magnetic Key Holder and Elastic Sunglasses Holder

have this bad habit of coming home and putting my keys, wallet, and sunglasses in a different spot every time, and I’d always spend 5 minutes looking for those things before I walked out the door again. So I needed a solution. And this is what I came up with. On the left is a simple block of wood that has 40 rare earth magnets embeded in holes in the back. I used a 1/2″ forsner bit for 1/2″ magnets that I bought on amazon in a pack of 50. …

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Building a Deck of Cards

One of my friends grew up playing card games with her dad and has very fond memories of doing so. As hes gotten older, he has lost the ability to be able to hold a fan of cards in a hand in front of him, and its been years since they played card games together. So she came up with an idea and asked me to help her build it. This is what we did. Simply, we took a 2×4 and cut 54 – 1″ chunks and then trimmed a …

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9′ Sliding Door Made From Old Ship Deck

Our house has a “wing” upstairs that my wife and I wanted to use for dedicated guest rooms. Its two bedrooms and a bathroom with a hallway connecting everything. The only problem is that the hallway has this huge opening that leads into the main living room, which kinda kills the privacy we wanted people to have. So we built a door. A really, really big door. This thing is 9′ tall, 4′ wide, and weighs about 100 lbs. I’ve seen tons of sliding doors on Pinterest and thought “I …

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Garage Workbench

When we moved into our new house a few years ago, we basically just filled up the garage with boxes and boxes of stuff, creating a very unusable room. This desperately needed a solution. I love to tinker and work on small projects and I wanted a well designed, good looking workbench to do these things on. Up until this workbench, I’ve been just spreading out on the garage floor on top of some cardboard and killing my back. This back corner looked like a prime spot for a redo. …

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Essential Oils Rack

So my wife has gotten into essential oils for treating minor ailments and for diffusing to make the place smell good. As we get more and more bottles of oils, we were running out of places to put them. We started looking for solutions to this problem and there are a lot of terrible, terrible designs out there, so I decided to make my own. They sit on french cleats on the wall so you can grab a shelf and take it somewhere else for a while. Let me know …