Category Archives: Home Improvement

How to Lacquer a Table

 Lacquer finishes that you apply on a table is for the purpose of enhancing the table's toughness, durability and is also water resistant. It also makes your table look more elegant and classy when you display the table in any modern room. Lacquer originated from the resin of a specific tree known as the varnish ...

How to Permanently Repair Cracked Plaster Walls

 It is annoying to find and have cracks on your wall in your home or at your office. Cracks that are normally found in plaster walls or drywall occurs due to a house naturally settling on its foundation, accidents when you bump your wall or when removing furniture or even from a minor earthquake. This ...

How to Repair Lacquer

When you choose to use Lacquer finishes on your wooden furniture, it is for the purpose of creating a more elegant and classy look of the furniture, plus also enhanced the furniture's toughness, durability and also water resistant. Sometimes damage can happen to your lacquered furniture thus making it look unattractive. Its lacquer coating that ...

How to Rid a Home of Pantry Moths or Weevils

 If you do not want your home to be infested by pantry moths or weevils, you must make sure that all the areas of your house are kept clean. This is because pantry moths or weevils do not like a clean environment and always make sure that there is no food that is left and ...

How to Disassemble a Radial Arm Saw

 A radial arm saw is versatile machine used for cutting long pieces of stock to length. It is a cutting machine that consists of a circular saw mounted on a sliding horizontal arm. It can be quite a tricky task if you have no idea how to go about this piece of machine.The machine ...

How to repair Broken Couches

Couches are bought for relaxing purposes. Couches have to be comfortable enough so that we will feel comfortable enough to sit on couches. Every home needs to have a couch. It could be placed in the living room or in the bedroom; the purpose is still the same. The problem comes when something or the ...

How to Clean a Down Comforter

We all know that down comforters are really hard to clean, not that hard but still harder than the usual cloth cleaning that we do at home. This might be as down comforter are huge and heavy and most of the time, down comforters don't fit in the washing machine. If you are going to ...

How to Grow a Container Garden

For those of you who do not have enough area or garden to plant your favorite flowers, you can simply grow a container garden where you can choose a wide many types of containers with variety of shapes and sizes in order to plant your favorite flowers. To give you some ideas on container garden, ...

How to Childproof Your Home

If you have a baby living together with you in your house or before you start to take home your newborn baby from the hospital, you need to make several common measures that are normally found within a house. The idea or image in our head of a child touching or reaching something that he ...

How to Plant a Lawn

If there's an empty spot in front of your house in your yard, cats are more likely to dirty them as we all know they use soil to do their business. To avoid having to clean up their business, why not plant a lawn on that empty spot to give both the yard and your ...

How to Fill Wood Pores

Wood furniture is known to be classy and to see a wood furniture get old and unused is just sad. There are many ways we can prevent that from happening. Wood pores filler is used for creating a glasslike finish on the surface of wooden furniture. By filling wood pores, you would be able to ...

How to Remove Lacquer with Solvents

When you are doing refinishing work on your one of your old furniture, you are required to strip off the existing lacquer finish in order to touch up the furniture and apply them with a new fresh colored lacquer. Lacquer is made of hard coating shellac or also known as plastic resin that enables the ...

How to Repair Cracks in a Log Cabin

A cabin is like an outdoor small place or an area for you to relax yourself or to have a good time with your family and friends. Overtime, your cabin will start to deteriorate due to direct sunlight and other weather elements where you will see that the cabin's wood has started to split, curl ...

How to Clean a Satin Finish Table

 Satin finish is commonly used by DIY enthusiasts whenever they are repairing and refurbishing old wooden furniture. Satin finish is chosen because once you applied the satin finish and allow it to dry; it can protect your furniture for longer period. Even with regular care you would be able to keep the furniture clean without ...

How to Make Fabric Flowers

Fabric scraps or leftover fabrics that you have after doing certain projects can be used for creating many craft items such as by sewing them or pin them onto bags or hair bows, glue them onto napkin rings, use it as scrapbook covers and the most easiest item to make is creating fabric flowers. Some ...

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