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Tips For A Rewarding Kitchen Redo
Interior design creative and human behavioural specialist, Kim Williams, shares some crucial tips and secrets to get you that perfect kitchen redo you are dreaming about.
3 min |
January / February 2021
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How To Create The Ideal Home Office
With working from home becoming the new norm, many South Africans are refreshing their interiors and creating a designated office to accommodate their new working conditions.
9 min |
January / February 2021
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How To Build A Kitchen Cart
Made from durable, lightweight wood, this rolling cart adds valuable extra prep space to the kitchen. Follow these steps to build your own kitchen cart.
2 min |
January / February 2021
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Everything You Need To Know About Air Conditioners
If you are like most South Africans, you know that our hot and humid summers can be extreme! Installing an air conditioner just might be what you need.
8 min |
January / February 2021
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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!
7 min |
January / February 2021
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WOODWORKER'S CORNER
Sharing techniques, ideas and a love of wood
4 min |
January / February 2021
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Only in dreams
Gather the young ones and let them make their own DIY dream catcher.
3 min |
January / February 2021
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KITCHEN SHELVING IDEAS THAT WON'T BREAK THE BANK
Exposing your clutter, old dishes, and even a mixture of both can be quite intimidating.
3 min |
January / February 2021
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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 min |
January / February 2021
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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.
4 min |
November / December 2020
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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.
7 min |
November / December 2020
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How To Make A Small Room Look Bigger
Choose furniture carefully if you have a small room
3 min |
November / December 2020
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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.
3 min |
November / December 2020
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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.
4 min |
November / December 2020
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Refresh Your Deck
There is no doubt that the South African climate is extremely harsh on exterior wood.
7 min |
September/October 2020
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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 min |
September/October 2020
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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.
4 min |
September/October 2020
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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.
2 min |
September/October 2020
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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.
3 min |
September/October 2020
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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.
4 min |
September/October 2020
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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 min |
September/October 2020
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10 Ways To Make Spring Cleaning Fun
Check out ingenious ways to help get you motivated to tackle your home cleaning chores this spring
4 min |
September/October 2020
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SELECTING THE CORRECT JIGSAW BLADES
All you need to know about jigsaw blades and cutting from the experts.
4 min |
September/October 2020
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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.
2 min |
September/October 2020
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‘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.
7 min |
July/August 2020
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Make A Drum Style Composter
Learn how to make your own drum composter for the home.
2 min |
July/August 2020
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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?
7 min |
July/August 2020
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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.
2 min |
July/August 2020
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Do It Your Shelf
Clifford Thackwray uses a story stick to ensure perfect shelving.
3 min |
July/August 2020
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DIY And COVID-19
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.
2 min |