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How to Create a Canopy for a Girl's Twin Bed
A canopy adds a sense of drama and adventure to a standard twin bed. It also makes a regular bedroom take on the appearance of a princess's room. A hula hoop is the right shape and size for the base of a fanciful canopy.
How to Remove Sanding Marks in Hardwood Floors
Sanding marks from a floor sander are a great concern when sanding hardwood floors. The weight of the machine makes it extremely easy to leave sanding marks. These marks, also known as chatter marks, can be difficult to remove, especially if they are fairly deep into the wood. Although usually le
How to Attach Stair Treads
Stair treads are an integral part of a staircase. If the stair treads are installed incorrectly the staircase will be dangerous to use. Unlevel stair treads can cause you to lose your balance and fall. Loose stair treads can slip while under load and cause serious injury. It is important that you le
Combination Safe Tips
Combination safes in the home are a great way to store important legal, financial and personal documents that must be preserved in the event of an emergency, such as a fire. They are also a good place to store the original copy of your will and/or trust as long as you let your executor know where to
DIY Easy Outdoor Stair Railing
Stair railings make exterior steps easier to climb and safer. For an informal exterior, you don't need to get fancy, but you do want a railing that is sturdy and durable. Building a simple outdoor stair railing is a straightforward job that can be accomplished with a few simple tools and a basic kno
How to Install a Moen Handheld Shower
Moen handheld showers have a long flexible tube that allows the shower head more mobility and offers options for bathers. Handheld showers are a benefit for the elderly, who may not be able to bend as well as they age. Thoroughly rinsing the shower after cleaning is also easier with a handheld showe
How to Find Linear Feet
Linear feet can be used to find the distance between two points or even the height of an object like a wall or some other type of structure. One linear foot is defined as 12 consecutive inches that are arranged in a straight line. You can find the linear feet of any object you'd like using a tape me
Exterior Home Skirting Ideas
Exterior home skirting is found on mobile homes. It is placed around the entire structure, stretching from the base of the home to the ground. Not only is it used to make mobile homes more aesthetically pleasing, it also serves a purpose. Skirting helps keep rodents and small animals from scurrying
How to Season My Brinkmann Smoker
Brinkmann makes a line of charcoal and gas smokers. After assembling your new smoker, according to the manufacturer's instructions, it needs to be seasoned, or cured, prior to using it. This helps protect the exterior finish of the smoker and remove unpleasant paint odors that might get into your fo
Cute Castle Bed Projects
Turning a plain old bed into a cute castle bed can be done with judicious use of time, materials and creativity combined with knowledge of castle-related history and mythology. Any of these projects will give a bed some castle flavor. Pursuing all of them will transform a bed into a sleeping place f
How to Install a Metal Ridge Vent
Allowing air to circulate in the attic space of your home ensures that the attic of your home will stay cooler and increase the longevity of your home's structural components. With today's modern windows and vapor barriers, air does not circulate properly around the attic space of your home. This is
Questions to Ask When Designing a Room
Whether you are designing a room on your own or using the help of a professional, you probably have lots of questions. How much can you afford to spend? What colors and materials should you use? What theme should you use? These three questions and others need to be answered as you start and progress
Hurricane Lighting Hardware
Hurricane lighting, such as lanterns, are designed to remain lit despite strong winds. Original hurricane lanterns used candles or an oil wick as their light source. The candles were surrounded by a glass cylinder, called a chimney, to protect them from being extinguished by the wind. Although most
How to Attach Cinder Block to Plywood
Cinder blocks are used to build homes, walls, fences and other structures. In homes with erosion problems and other foundation issues, it is common to build a retaining wall around the home. In most cases the homes with erosion problems are wooden homes where the exterior walls are framed with plywo
How to Square a Floating Floor Installation
A "floating'' floor is one that isn't attached to the subfloor or the wall in any way, but rather sits with the planks locked together and held down by floor trim on the sides. It's much easier to install than a fully nailed or glued hardwood floor, but you still have to deal with layout and squarin
How to Plan House Wiring
Whether you are building a new home or remodeling an existing home, an electrical plan is essential. If you are not familiar with the principles of electricity, you will need to learn this skill, either by reading a book, taking a class or finding a mentor. Electricity is not hard, but it is dangero
How to Remove a Window on a Double-Wide
Windows are susceptible to damage on a double-wide home just as they are on any other home. Removing windows in a double-wide however, is not difficult compared to a standard house. If your windows mount behind the siding, you will need to purchase a siding zip tool from a hardware store. This tool
How to Unclog Outdoor Drains
An outdoor drain is not different from any other drain in that they are all made to take wastewater and deposit it into a main sewer line or a septic line. The crucial difference between a household drain and an outdoor drain are the substances that will can block a pipe. Organic intrusions of tree
How to Apply Wire and Tar Paper to a Shower Wall
In a sense, the shower is mankind's attempt to bring a waterfall indoors. The earliest natural showers were waterfalls where people stood beneath them and bathed. The earliest man-made shower was in Regency England: an elaborate affair with bamboo-painted metal and a hidden tank. Over time, the show