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If you find yourself in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, you’re in the area catered to by the Weekend Post – a weekly newspaper which distributes to the entire region. You may be wondering why I’m bringing this up on a DIY blog, so I’ll get right to the point and tell you!
There are really a lot of different reasons why people want to save money – and face it, in these difficult times, who doesn’t? I certainly count myself in that group! Service time is another of those dreaded annual expenses that make car owners cringe – even if you drive an old banger that’s paid…
Most homes don’t come with convenient clothes or jewelry or sundry hooks about the place, do they? Well, neither did ours – so I put my thinking cap on and came up with this easy to make sundry rack that you can hang anything from coats to jewelry on!
Bathrooms are often awkward spaces in the home – they’re either too big or too small, or too full or too empty! Are there enough shelves, cupboards or racks to store everything you need in your bathroom? Want to see a quick and easy suggestion?
This one is probably the easiest and simplest of all projects I’ve made – but yet it makes such a lovely difference to my bathing experience! If you’re like me and you enjoy having a little chill-time in the tub, browsing Facebook on your phone and sipping a drink – while not having anywhere near…
I built this wooden bench outside the kitchen door in around 2014-15, and later thought if I added doors it might make a nice little storage area for gardening tools and seeds and so on. Plain doors on hinges would’ve worked, but they would’ve taken up more space to open and would’ve clashed with the…
One day I happened to be browsing an antique store, and I noticed this shabby old mantlepiece clock case lying amongst some other bric-a-brac on display. It was made of wood which had faded badly, was dry and a little rough, but I figured I could do something with it – like make it into…
Why anyone would want to do this is a question you may have in mind, but before you call me crazy, let me start from the beginning! This old stove is quite old – it’s considerably older than I am, in fact. My mother paid R100 for it second hand back in 1968, some years…
Cats like to see and be invisible, watching from high places of concealment. They feel safe in places like that! I thought it would be a nice idea to make a sort of cat tent bed, and I’ll show you how easy it is!
This old Phillips radiogram’s been in my family since new – which was back in 1964! Unlike most antique radios that look the way this one does, all shiny and still in working order, it’s had a very hard life.