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Free Kitchen Cabinet Plans

In today’s post, I’m going to tell you how you can get free kitchen cabinet plans to download. Last year I started a new video course to help DIYers design and build their own kitchen cabinets and custom built-in projects.  That video course is called “Cabinets from Scratch” and you can check it out at […]

July 1st, 2017
Free Download: Renovate Your Kitchen the Smart Way eBook

Miss me? It’s been several months since my last blog post and while I haven’t been too busy working on our home, I have been super busy with some other online projects.  Just a few months ago, I launched a subscription-based video course that teaches people how to design and build their own cabinets.  With […]

April 2nd, 2017
Our New Kitchen Renovation Book is Now Available

Today I’m happy to announce that our new eBook, Renovate Your Kitchen the Smart Way is now available for purchase.  You can check it out at www.KitchenRenovationBook.com. KitchenRenovationBook.com is our new sales website and kitchen remodeling blog.  I’ll be writing more kitchen remodel focused blog posts over on that site, so be sure to head […]

June 21st, 2015
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My 3 Biggest Kitchen Renovation Successes

Happy Monday!  In today’s post, I wanted to share with you my 3 biggest successes during the renovation of my first home’s kitchen.  Last week, I discussed my 3 biggest failures.  If you haven’t read that post yet, it’s worth a read.   Later this week, I’ll be launching my new ebook to my newsletter […]

June 14th, 2015
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My 3 Biggest Kitchen Renovation Mistakes

If all goes according to plan, next week I’ll be launching my new ebook.  The book is a guide on how to renovate your kitchen intelligently so your remodel goes smoothly and stays on budget.  It’s pretty much an organized brain dump of everything I know about kitchens and planning renovations.  It’s my best remodeling […]

June 11th, 2015
My Biggest DIY Project Ever

If you’ve been a regular reader for the past couple of years you know we’ve worked on some pretty sizable home improvement projects since our beginning in 2011.  We completely renovated our home office from the ground up this past fall.  We spent a few months and upgraded our dining room with raised panel wainscoting […]

April 21st, 2015
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How to Install Cabinet Hardware Without a Jig

In this post, you’ll learn: – a simple method for installing cabinet hardware It seems that the closer I get to finishing this home office project, more small tasks keep popping up and they’re taking much longer than I anticipated.  Case in point: the cabinet hardware.  It took me a good two and a half […]

October 27th, 2014
How We Toddler Proof our Home

I promised more than a couple posts this week and I aim to deliver.  Lately, we’ve been re-evaluating some of our child proofing measures.  Child proofing or toddler proofing is a moving target, at least for us anyway.  As soon as our daughter started walking last year, I went around the house and added padding […]

February 5th, 2013
How to Fix a Leaking Sink

So, last week as you may recall, we added a reverse osmosis system (ROS) to our kitchen sink.  How do we like it so far?  We love it.  The water tastes great and we don’t have anymore plastic water bottles collecting dust all over the house.  Wasn’t terribly difficult either, although there were a few […]

September 10th, 2012
Adding a Reverse Osmosis System

It’s time to say goodbye.  It’s been a long time coming.  This relationship is wasteful.  There are better options out there.  It’s true.  We’re finally kicking the bottled water habit and switching to a reverse osmosis system (ROS).  At any given time over the past year, you could find 5-10 empty bottles of Dasani or […]

September 5th, 2012
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