Additional layers of flooring can bury baseboards making them look squat (bad) and difficult to remove (worse).

Nice boxes, no-shift

Kitchen cabinet carcasses are just four-sided cubes made with plywood and simple joinery. Repetition is the name of this game.

Put away the abacus, Hoss—here's a Visual Construction Calculator for your proportional processing ponderances

 

One way to build drawer boxes fast, efficient, and repeatable

Heavy-duty drawer hardware and a simple cabinet turns a blind corner into roll-out storage

The key to fine carpentry: smart shortcuts

Two Japanese carpenters demonstrate the mortise joinery used to assemble a built-up beam. The claim is that the joined beam is as strong as a solid one.

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Two ways to spice up stock cabinets

Space savers for the young-ish

Wall cabinets have a quiet and important job description: Hold heavy glassware and ceramics up in the air. Do not peel away from the wall—just sit there and look pretty.

Five ways to draw circles

Celebrate simplicity ... and sharp chisels

Angled cabinets with wiring chases, prebuilt, installed, and dressed up with moldings.

Angled and tapered legs make a saddle for the tapered top

For three years and a day journeymen walk, work, and sleep under the stars

 

New design improves battery and cartridge installation. If Cordless trim nailers fit your workflow, this gun is a good bet