What kind of wood should I use when building shelves? There are a lot of considerations that go into this question. What is the purpose of your shelf? How much weight will it be holding up? In this blog post, we’ll take a look at different types of wood and which type would best suit …
You may be asking yourself “what is the best wood for building a Bed Frame?”, and we are here to help! There is a lot of confusion surrounding this question. Some people say that you want to go with hardwood so it lasts longer, while others say that pine will do just fine. Luckily for …
Rattan and bamboo are very popular materials for furniture, room separators, pencils, and much more. Bamboo and rattan both tend to be very durable and their elastic nature lends itself to very interestingly shaped furniture. But the natural look of these materials isn’t always the best for every room. So is there a way to …
A quick and permanent way to decorate a door is to simply wallpaper it. But unfortunately, it isn´t always as simple to wallpaper a door as it may seem. Depending on the material of the door the way you apply wallpaper changes drastically. I tried to wallpaper the door in my living floor in the …
Brass is an alloy (a metal that is created by combining two different types of metal or metal and an element) of copper and zink. It is used for decorative purposes as well as for some mechanical and electrical purposes because of its unique properties. Brass is present a lot in older furniture like lamps …
Applying wallpaper to walls or furniture can instantly upgrade the look of a room immensely but how do you properly apply wallpaper to wood and is it even possible with every kind of wood? In this article, I will go over the process of applying wallpaper to wood, what type of wood will work and …
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A hot glue gun was the first crafts tool that I ever bought and it is probably the first tool most new hobby crafters get for their first projects. Hot glue is perfect for a lot of projects and for good reason. You can glue pretty much anything with it that doesn´t have a smooth …
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Air dry clay is an amazing crafts material. It is easy to use, easy to work with, and you don´t need a kiln to fire it instead it will simply dry and harden that way. But, even though it is not mandatory, you might still want to seal your air dry clay sculpture to protect …
Air dry clay is quite different to work with than regular clay or polymer clay. It can be used together with quite some materials in order to create awesome sculptures. But it is not always easy to find out what materials air dry clay sticks to because it will sometimes stick very well when it …
When I first started using air dry clay there was nothing more frustrating for me than trying to smooth the surface of my first few sculptures. No matter how hard I tried I never really got the surfaces of my sculptures to look smooth. So after a lot of headaches, I finally decided to ask …
