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If you want to refinish your kitchen cabinets with milk paint, you should take heed of this advice.

Sometimes it's impossible to find the right hardware for a piece. That's when I turn to metalsmith Adam Nahas, who fabricates custom hardware.

Left unfinished, brass will develop a patina with use. But sometimes you need the patina yesterday. Here are two methods to speed up the aging process.

Mistakes are always exasperating, but much less so when you have a few tricks up your sleeve to make them right. Here's one of mine.

How do you differentiate between varieties of furnituremakers? Here's the preliminary take on how I do.

Nancy Hiller demonstrates quick method she used to spiff up old trim so that it would match the original trim in the customers' house.

Want to replace a trash cabinet door with a pullout unit? It's easy. Here are some of the factors to consider.

Here's some hard-won advice for installing Blum's Tip-On hardware to an existing Movento runner system for trash receptacles.

Fitting a kitchen counter in a tricky space takes a clear head and solid grasp of how existing variables affect each other. Here's a step-by-step example.

Just what are we talking about when we invoke the culture of paying dues? Here are some significant perspectives.

I haven’t given much thought to the culture of paying dues until a few recent occasions, when I’ve been struck by how this dimension of woodworking culture—at least, the culture of professional [...]

Use this simple, strong method for constructing custom cabinets and other built-ins