Category Archives: Home accents

Brick wall cutting board

Brick Pattern End Grain Cutting Board

Do you ever wonder what the hype is all about when it comes to end grain cutting boards? Personally, I never got what the big deal was… until I tried to make one myself! Three homemade jigs later, I had a stunning brick pattern end grain cutting board fit for chef. https://youtu.be/embed/MywpGoasVFU?cc_load_policy=1 In this tutorial,

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5 Gifts You Can Make From Wood

It’s that time of year! My annual holiday gift making video. Here are 5 new ideas for holiday gifts you can make from wood. For the step-by-step process for making these 5 woodworking gifts you can make from wood, watch the YouTube video below. 5 Woodworking Gifts You Can Make Woodworking Gift Idea #1: Kitchen

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Standing Desk Converter DIY

DIY Standing Desk Converter

How many hours do you spend sitting down every day? Between my day job and editing content, I spend WAY too much time sitting at my desk. They say sitting is the new smoking… Whatever that means. But one thing is clear, all that sitting isn’t good for anyone. So today I’m doing something about it

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Solid Wood Floating Shelves

Just over a year ago, I built a desk from scratch for my home office. I built a set of drawer cabinets out of plywood and added a solid ash wood desk top. I’ve been meaning to build a set of matching floating shelves for over a year now but seem to keep putting it

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A wooden trivet shaped like a pear

Woodworking Gifts You Can Make

Looking for woodworking gift ideas you can make for the holidays this year? In this tutorial, I’ll show you 4 woodworking gifts you can make from wood including a Mölkky game (also called Finska), a pear-shaped trivet, a growth chart ruler and a modern wall wine rack. Looking for even more gift ideas? Check out

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4 DIY Holiday Gifts for the Kitchen

With all of us spending more time at home this year, I find myself spending time in the kitchen and cooking more than ever before. That why I decided to dedicate this year’s DIY-holiday-gifts-you-can-make-out-of-wood edition to gifts for the kitchen. Update! Just posted the 2021 holiday gifts edition here: https://www.diymontreal.com/woodworking-gifts-you-can-make/ — Watch the video —

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Simple Gifts You Can Make From Wood - Baltic Birch Plywood Ring

Simple Gifts You Can Make From Wood

With the holidays just around the corner, it’s inevitably time to start thinking of Christmas gifts. As a woodworker and DIY enthusiast, I like to include some handmade gifts in the mix.  In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make 6 simple gifts you can make from wood. 6 Simple Gifts You

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