How To: Build a Retaining Wall
Last week we posted a few pictures of our patio space and retaining wall. Clearly, you guys wanted some more details and we're oh-so-happy to provide. Just keep in mind, we're not professional build...
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How to: Make Plywood Counters
We've expressed our distaste for formica before, and though many think it's the only way to go if you don't want to spend the dough on marble or butcher block, that's absolutely not the case! Check ou...
How To: Grow Peas, Beans and Corn
Earlier this month we showed you how to start an avocado tree right in your own kitchen. This week we're stepping it up a notch and showing you a cool trick for growing corn, peas and beans. The bes...
How To: Fix a Broken Toilet Handle Using Zip Ties and a Key Ring
The handle broke off my toilet a few weeks ago, right at that time when it's too late to go to the hardware store but too early to wait until the next day to fix it (my boyfriend and I are both night ...
Mason Jar Pendant Lamps
Anthropologie does it again! This is the current display above the registers of the Santana Row store. If only we had soaring ceilings and a few hundred more square feet in our house, we would consi...
How To: Clean Everything
If you've ever been offended by someone's lack of cleanliness - be it crumbs between the couch cushions, rings in the toilet, or whatever funk you've encountered - try and remember that maybe they jus...
How To: Grow an Avocado Tree
With the recent onslaught of hot weather, we've been scarfing the guacamole and thought it a shame to just chuck the avocado pits. We grabbed a couple of our trusty Spega yogurt glasses and did our ...
How To: Change a Light Switch
There are plenty of reasons to change out a lightswitch, from aesthetics to function, and it's a good general skill to have if, well, you live in a home with light switches. The best thing is it's sur...
Look!: DIY Mug Display
We've been following Portland resident Erica Mulherin's home projects for a while now. We were especially impressed with the display system that the illustrator (and blogger) devised for her inherite...
How To: Make a Bike Rack
We are related to some passionate bicyclists (affectionately known by us as "bike nerds") who have dedicated several garages and a basement or two to their love... but that's in middle America, where ...
How To: Store Your Fabrics
We'll admit it, we're certified fabric junkies. Because of this, we're always trying to figure out neat and interesting ways to store our hundreds (literally) of samples. We've found that this parti...
How To: Remember Where You Parked
We don't have a car in the city for lots of reasons (however anytime it's raining we can't remember of any of them), a big one being that parking here is bananas. The few times we've borrowed a car we...
How To: Use Your Green Compost Bin
The Kitchn recently posted about the great green compost carts that are now part of San Francisco's waste removal program. We've been reading up on what is and is not acceptable, and realized we still...
How To: Prettify a Plain Tealight Holder
Patricia is a graphic designer and mom who just posted this great DIY project on her blog, Little Hut. The decoration around a simple glass votive holder casts beautiful shadows to up the impact of...
How To: Make a Floor Plan
Over the weekend, an AT regular -- and future Small Cool Contest entrant -- wrote in to ask how she could go about making a floor plan. And then, while we were in the midst of writing this post, in c...
How To: Photograph Your Home
SF House Tour: Rebecca and Roger's Relaxed Wabi-Sabi Modern It's not as easy as it seems to take good photos of homes. If you're taking pics this weekend (or sometime soon) for the Smallest, Cooles...
How To: Refresh a Boring Drawer Unit
Our little bathroom has no storage and even less room for installing storage. We keep most of our bathroom supplies in the bedroom closet, but a few necessities get stashed in a basic drawer unit an...
How To: Remove Cigarette Odor from Wood Furniture
The other day we happened upon some tips about how to remove cigarette odor from wood furniture. When buying furniture off Craigslist and at flea markets, we've always stayed away from furniture th...
How To: Revamp a Candelabra with Wallpaper Scraps
A few weeks ago, I posted about Christiana Coop's home for Apartment Therapy. I loved her story so much — she left law to pursue a career in design — that I decided to go more in-depth and w...
DIY Fabric Etching
Today Julie, a textile science teacher (amongst other fabulous things) showed us the beautiful (and tedious!) art of fiber etching. The above photo is a great example of Julie's work. ...
How To: Make Curtains
We just caught the new DIY show, Decor It Yourself, on ThreadBanger. Riffing on our post, How To: Make a Tree Branch Curtain Rod, Meg demonstrates how to make curtains -- and makes it look oh-so-e...
Look!: How Not to Run Out of Toilet Paper
This is certainly one way. With a blank wall and zero ideas for how else to use it — yup, it's one way. This "solution" — ostensibly for TP roll storage and the so-called shuffle of shame — is...
How To: Keep Silver Tarnish-Free
We thought we'd share with you our tried-and-true method -- call it the lazy person's way -- of keeping our vintage silver tarnish-free. ...
How To: Make a Rainwater Collection Barrel
In our ongoing efforts to live a greener lifestyle we've decided that not only do we want to grow our own organic herbs and produce, we'd also like to water our plants with collected rainwater. We lo...
Northwest #13: Algy's Big Money Inspirations... Small Money creation!!
AFTER To Contest Page Info and All Entries Name: Alglatiotis Location: Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Time: It was a One Weekend Project completed on saturday and sunday Cost: inspired by a chai...
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