Home theater systems really can make a huge difference to your home – and to your bank balance if you actually buy all the accessories. Items like projector stands and screens are pretty expensive these days. As if forking out a couple grand for a cheapie projector isn’t bad enough! This is the projector stand…
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Easy DIY #16: Corner Book Case
For a long time I’ve wanted to build a corner bookshelf to display books and models or collectibles, and so a couple of months ago I decided “now is the time!” The wood I used was old ceiling boards from an outside building I refurbished a few years back, and once sanded and cleaned, the…
Easy DIY #14: How To Cat-Proof Your Home
Cats – they force you to reshape and reorganize your entire life around them, don’t they? Yup, they sure do! Anyway, so Kay and I have 3 kitties and we don’t allow them to roam, which means that we confine them to our property. That presents a whole string of very interesting little problems… Regardless…
Easy DIY #13: Guitar Wall Hook
I have this guitar that was a 7th birthday gift from my mom, so I decided it would be better to display it nicely rather than to let it just gather dust in a box or cupboard, or in a corner somewhere where it would get battered by other objects in storage. Besides, out in…
Easy DIY #12: Folding Handles From Hinges
I made these cool stylish handles for a chest, using brass door hinges and some wood! All you need is a hinge with enough room for your fingers to pass through. It’s pretty simple when you think about it – but if you fail to think of using hinges for handles, you might completely overlook…
Easy DIY #11: Pull-Activated Ceiling Light
I made this cool light fitting out of a few bits and pieces that I had lying around! When you pull on the light fitting itself, it turns on, and when you pull on it again, it turns off! The light itself is pretty ordinary, it’s just a light fitting – though the one I…
Easy DIY #10: Raspberry Pi Cases – “The Bug”
The Raspberry Pi is an astonishing device! We use ours every day to play our music playlists, and to watch our series and movies! We received ours as a wedding gift, in its box with an instruction booklet, and nothing else – and why not? You can used virtually anything else you already have with…
Easy DIY #08: Tea Trolley
I needed a tea trolley like this at work for the kitchen area of the classroom I presented IT classes at in 2019 – just to hold incidentals like a kettle, sugar bowl, coffee, tea and some boxes of cookies etc. Work wasn’t going to buy one, and neither was I – so I decided…
Easy DIY #07: Wood Smoking Pipe
I’m not a smoker, but my wife Kay is, and recently when the COVID lockdown struck in South Africa, the government went mad in an authoritarian fashion, and banned cigarettes and alcohol for no apparent justifiable reason. Kay ran out of cigarettes about five weeks later, and began to look for smoking alternatives (as did…
Easy DIY #04: Rustic Kitchen Tree & Lamp
We did this in our kitchen to brighten it up and personalize it a little. Both Kay and I love trees and nature, and so when it came to decorating our kitchen and make it unique, this is what we came up with!