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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…
Cats – they force you to reshape and reorganize your entire life around them, don’t they? Yup, they sure do! Anyway, so Kay and I have 3 kitties and we don’t allow them to roam, which means that we confine them to our property. That presents a whole string of very interesting little problems… Regardless…
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…