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Words of wisdom from the workshop

We have put together a compilation of ‘lessons learned’, opinions, and FAQ’s aimed primarily at novice woodworkers on workshop related matters. How ‘wise’ these words are may be a matter of debate!

WOODWORKER'S CORNER

Sharing techniques, ideas and a love of wood

Only in dreams

Gather the young ones and let them make their own DIY dream catcher.

KITCHEN SHELVING IDEAS THAT WON'T BREAK THE BANK

Exposing your clutter, old dishes, and even a mixture of both can be quite intimidating.

CLASSIC OUTDOOR WHEELBARROW

This project was put together to satisfy a need for a garden feature with a difference. Normally these garden wheelbarrows are seen either as old metal wheelbarrows gave a new lease of life or those made as arty metal rod and sheet versions available at the local garden emporium. This one’s made of wood.

9 mins |

It's All In The Technique

Whether you are looking for a quick refresh or a total overhaul, these painting techniques will provide you a lot of inspiration to add style to dull walls.

Summer Pool Care Tricks

The idea of having a pool in your own backyard will always be incredibly glamourous. It’s easy to give into daydreams of hosting weekend parties, adopting an invigorated fitness routine that includes laps after work, and spending long afternoons lounging poolside while cultivating the perfect tan.

How To Make A Small Room Look Bigger

Choose furniture carefully if you have a small room

Regular Maintenance Prevents Expensive Repairs

For DIY enthusiasts with some time on their hands, the recent lockdown has been the perfect opportunity to get stuck in. For those who aren’t as adept, it’s a chance to get a handyman in while they’re at home to supervise.

How To Renovate A Garage In A Few Easy Steps

One day when you are looking for something important and you cannot find it, but you stumble upon many things that you don’t recognise. That is when you realise your garage needs a renovation.

Refresh Your Deck

There is no doubt that the South African climate is extremely harsh on exterior wood.

Prepare Your Lawnmower For Spring

As the days start to warm up and rain inevitably falls, your grass will need to be mowed more often. But is your lawnmower up to the task?

5 mins |

Easy-Build Large Vegetable Planter

Here’s a vegetable planter that is strong, easy to build, and large enough for a number of garden projects.

DIY Lego Coat Rack

Designed to look like Lego blocks, this colourful coat hanger is perfect for any little boy’s bedroom – or spray in shades of pink, lilac and purple for a little girl’s bedroom. This is an easy project to make that will only take about an hour, allowing for paint to dry.

Make A Fire Pit In 4 Easy Steps

The perfect addition to any home, an outdoor fire pit can be used both for your summer braais as well as cosy winter get-togethers.

How To Make A Shelf Bracket

Shop-bought shelf brackets are almost exclusively made of metal in some form, but brackets were traditionally made from wood. In this project, Clifford Roberts and woodworker Andries Eygelaar show how it’s done.

Ten Great Ideas For Your Workshop

DIY’ers and woodworkers are always looking for ideas to solve problems or simply for better ways of doing things. Here are ten problem solving ideas that you may find useful.

8 mins |

10 Ways To Make Spring Cleaning Fun

Check out ingenious ways to help get you motivated to tackle your home cleaning chores this spring

SELECTING THE CORRECT JIGSAW BLADES

All you need to know about jigsaw blades and cutting from the experts.

Finding motivation

About Annalien: Annalien started her career at the SABC on 50/50 before moving to Germany after she met her husband. Later, they returned to South Africa and she took on various freelance projects, eventually getting hooked on DIY. Annalien was part of the team on The Home Channel’s Get It Done! series.

‘C' The Table?

I decided that I would organise a side table to have my coffee and cake, cell phone and glass of wine handy instead of balancing a tray on my lap whilst checking out the sport news on TV. After thinking about various side table options, the easiest was to make a C-table. Plus, I could easily do the job with a minimum of materials and hand plus a few power tools.

Make A Drum Style Composter

Learn how to make your own drum composter for the home.

It's A Matter Of Balance

In this fun marble machine project we’re going to use basic hand-tools to create a toy for the learning experience of the force of gravity, balance of mass, the laws of momentum for which the basic design dates from the 19th century where it appeared as a toy made by the Amish community for their kids. What more could you want from a project?

Make Your Own Game Board

This game teaches kids valuable skills like problem-solving, anticipation, logic, strategy and more. Playing Noughts & Crosses can be done anywhere at nearly anytime, but we have a fun way to take the game outside! In this issue we are sharing the painted rocks tic-tac-toe game we created out of river rocks and a slice of wood.