Academic, writer, storyteller, digital creator.
I made these cool stylish handles for a chest, using brass door hinges and some wood! All you need is a hinge with enough room for your fingers to pass through. It’s pretty simple when you think about it – but if you fail to think of using hinges for handles, you might completely overlook…
I made this cool light fitting out of a few bits and pieces that I had lying around! When you pull on the light fitting itself, it turns on, and when you pull on it again, it turns off! The light itself is pretty ordinary, it’s just a light fitting – though the one I…
The Raspberry Pi is an astonishing device! We use ours every day to play our music playlists, and to watch our series and movies! We received ours as a wedding gift, in its box with an instruction booklet, and nothing else – and why not? You can used virtually anything else you already have with…
This sort of item really helps to improve the entrance to your home or hallway. I whipped this up one afternoon while on holiday during December 2019. Of course, I hung a mirror under that later, and then built another shelf below that – but this little shelf stands out very well on its own!…
I needed a tea trolley like this at work for the kitchen area of the classroom I presented IT classes at in 2019 – just to hold incidentals like a kettle, sugar bowl, coffee, tea and some boxes of cookies etc. Work wasn’t going to buy one, and neither was I – so I decided…
I’m not a smoker, but my wife Kay is, and recently when the COVID lockdown struck in South Africa, the government went mad in an authoritarian fashion, and banned cigarettes and alcohol for no apparent justifiable reason. Kay ran out of cigarettes about five weeks later, and began to look for smoking alternatives (as did…
The thing with bench-mounted power tools is, they tend to take up space! That’s not a problem if you have unlimited space, but if like me, you don’t, then this might be one possible solution!
This old kitchen cupboard was in the house when we moved in back in 1985. By about 1998 or so, the doors had become really shabby and the catches were crap, so instead of replacing the whole cupboard, we had someone fit new melamine (veneered chipboard) doors and drawer faces, which lasted okay until the…
We did this in our kitchen to brighten it up and personalize it a little. Both Kay and I love trees and nature, and so when it came to decorating our kitchen and make it unique, this is what we came up with!
So you’ve got a PC or laptop or Raspberry Pi set up to play movies in your home theater – and you’re looking for a cool way to mount and store your hard drives close by. Why not a wall-mounted box? Why not indeed? There are really many ways to do this, but this is…