Woodworking Projects

Spray paint is toxic, and cheap masks don't offer much protection. The best way to avoid permanent brain damage is to use an activated carbon…

Need to finish a lot of trim or woodwork? Instead of spreading it out over the whole garage to dry, set it on a vertical drying rack. One rack…

Over the years, the editors at The Family Handyman have built nearly a hundred bookcases. From all that experience, we've learned that the…

Create an attractive display shelf for the empty space above your kitchen cabinets. This project requires only basic carpentry skills, and you…

Vertical rollout drawers are a great way to convert a half-empty base cabinet into a high-capacity food storage cabinet that can be custom-sized…

Gain extra storage space in the kitchen by installing toe-kick drawers under your base cabinets. Just assemble the drawer units in your shop,…

Squeeze more usable space out of your kitchen base cabinets by installing rollout drawers. How-to photos and plans show how to make standard and…

This tiled table is simple to make, but it's engineered to hold up in any weather. All the materials are available at home centers, you don't…

These shelves are handsome, easy to build and inexpensive. And they're strong even though they have no visible supports. They appear to…

Organize the clutter. These simple, but handsome, box shelves will store books, hats, shoes, and all kinds of knick-knacks. You can even sit on…

Entry doors from attached garages and mud rooms seem to attract clutter. These storage projects are designed to solve that problem, with special…

Mix and match colors of wood laminate flooring, add a few stone tiles as accents, and suddenly you've made an extraordinary wood floor for the…

This DIY garage storage system has the versatility of expensive store-bought systems, but you can make it yourself for a few hundred dollars in…

Box shelves are inexpensive, easy to make and highly versatile. Make the combination of sizes and depths you need for any room, from the living…