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How to Build a Wooden Clothing Rack

Is your closet overflowing with clothes? You can build this practical and stylish clothing rack in a day by following these plans.

Get all the benefits of a sauna without the expensive health club membership.

DIY a portable sauna? No sweat.

Learn how to mortise door hinges using a router.

Upgrade your kitchen cabinets with crown molding. We'll show you how.

Build this footstool and gain a perfect place to stow your stuff.

Want to try your hand at welding, but not sure where to get the right equipment? Here are some of...

Splitting hostas will make for a healthier plant and will propagate new plants. Here's when, and how, you split hostas.

Your dinner guests will never miss your house again once you install these solar-powered house numbers.

Learn how to build your own custom nightstand using minimal tools and moderate woodworking skills.

Back in the day, people stored their bread in a special box in the kitchen or pantry. Relive those days...

A customizable clutter-buster that turns your garage into a mudroom.

It's been a long winter and you're ready to start some yard work. But before you grab that rake or...

Find out how to remove paint from clothes with these tried and true methods.

We scoured the shelves of paint stores, surfed the internet and picked the brains of painting pros to...

This two-hour project for a wall-mounted bike rack is a simple yet inventive way to get your bike off of...

Cast this fountain in a weekend with a few bags of concrete and some hardware odds and ends.

If your entryway is littered with shoes and jackets, purses and book bags,...

Cure back-door chaos!

Be safe—use roof brackets, a safety harness and commonsense rules

Got two hours to kill? Do we have a workbench for you!