How we built some rolling workshop storage to act as a hidden door in our basement.
Basement
I needed a space saving home office solution so here’s how I built my folding wall desk. This is nearly the last project in my basement multi-purpose room renovation.
A cheap DIY solution for a removable basement ceiling idea. Using evenly spaced ripped 2x4s to give a clean modern look.
In order to really give my antique reproduction door a vintage look I knew I wanted to apply liming wax over stain to make it look truly aged. I had already worked with liming wax on our pine buffet and had learned a few lessons there about what did or did not work. The very …
There were plenty of options for closing off the basement storage room, but I ended up deciding on a reproduction antique door. Specifically, a copy of a door that my parents found in the barns on their property when they bought it. The scale is a little different and it does affect the charm, but …
As a part of building out the basement mudroom I knew I wanted to add a mudroom bench. Either getting ready to go out in the snow or coming in and pulling off seventeen million layers, a place to sit comes in handy. We also were already using some baskets to organize hats and gloves …
To make this basement room transform from a catch-all into an actually functioning basement mudroom the first step was to add paneling. We had a false start along the entrance wall so we took a step back and made a plan. The basement mudroom plan that we came up was many steps Here is about …
I didn’t originally plan to make a DIY vintage light for my mudrooom / office / workout room / basement area that will likely do more in the future. Working on the room, I knew I wanted to replace the two bare bulb porcelain socket fixtures. Originally I bought two lights from Amazon and was …
After a wonderful stay in a Fixer Upper AirBnb in Waco, I was pretty set on adding a painted faux brick panel wall. I had used thin brick behind our woodstove for our faux mantel but was interested in trying the much cheaper and faster panels. Here is where it ended up (well after I …