building plans

Build A Seedling Tray

DIY

I looked at this picture in Entertaining, Martha Stewart’s first book, for years, and all I saw was cookies. Delicious chocolate chip cookies. And then, one day, when I was ready, I saw IT: the antique wooden thing the cookies were in. I don’t know what it’s called, and I don’t know what it was [...]

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Laundry Table/Grow Light

DIY

Four years ago I built a laundry-folding table from 3/4″ plywood and 2×4′s with a top surface of large self-adhesive floor tiles. I added casters to make it easy to move around and it has been a helpful addition to the laundry room. One day recently I was looking at the thing and had an [...]

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Build a Garden Cubby

DIY

I built a box to store small garden tools and supplies: gloves, garden knife, twine, secateurs, etc. I am that peculiar kind of lazy which would rather spend days fashioning such a box than go back into the house for a pair of scissors. It is shaped like a shed with a copper roof made [...]

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