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Home Improvement ➤ October 5, 2024

Refinishing My Concrete Floors For Under $200

In an effort to not completely blow the budget on my shop renovations I decided to refinish the concrete floors myself. I had to contract out some of the other work for my shop which ended up costing way more than I was expecting. The quote I got for hiring this job out was $1,050. So, if I could do this for less I was going to figure out how, and spoiler alert I only spent $190. I had never refinished concrete floors before but with that amount of savings we made it work!

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Search ➤ September 28, 2024

DIY Easy Shop Cabinets with Woodshop Diaries

You all know I love a collab! Shara from Woodshop Diaries spent 3 days with me and we built all of the cabinets for my shop. What an exhausting and fun project to do together. I have been  waiting for this dream shop for so long and now that it’s finally ready for me to use it I’m so excited. Maybe the coolest thing about this build is that you can find the plans for all of my shop cabinets in two places, on Shara’s website and on Kreg’s website. So if you’d like to build out your shop just like I did, it couldn’t be easier. But here’s how we did it!

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Search ➤ September 21, 2024

I Challenged My Dad to a Build Off

Inspired by Jon at Lincoln St. Woodworks, my dad and I challenged each other to a build off. He has always wanted to make a river table and I had a slab lying around that needed to be made into a coffee table. So I called up my friends at Total Boat and asked if we could crash their shop. It was such a fun trip and we probably enjoyed competing with each other a little too much. But I’m so proud of how our projects turned out and can’t wait to do something like this again!

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Home Improvement ➤ September 7, 2024

From Small Bedroom to DIY Home Gym

As you may or may not know my other half is a cyclist, he even owns his own bike shop. But in the winter he needs a space to train indoors. He had his bike in our spare bedroom and he was using his phone to watch training sessions. The room had things everywhere and he really needed a better setup. So I took this standard small bedroom and turned it into the perfect pain cave, complete with a custom entertainment and organization system. Here’s how I did it!

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