Oh Yes July
July 2025, Where has the year gone The past year has been a whirl wind with great things to come form the “Shop @ kPlace” this month! stay tunned!
Author: Adam Kinney
Gate For the Back Deck
This one is from my beautiful bride, You can check out her awesome works on the web at Twine and Tumbleweeds or on Facebook HandyHubs is my knight in a flannel! This dog gate is going to keep our dogs healthy and breathing. Keeping …
Pencil Mark Problems!
If you are anything like me, you make pencil marks on just about everything. On lumber for cutting, sketch pads, even walls when you’re trying to hang pictures or shelves and what not. Pictured in the photo was me hanging a shelf (JK ha)… Maybe?
Anyway to the point, I am speak about walls here, Good ol Fashion tooth paste is the best way to remove Pencil marks.
I use a damp cloth and just put a little dab of TP on a corner and scrub the pencil right off. Then use another damp cloth, or the other end of the one you have and wipe it clean!
In my Experience the Crest Pro has been the best so far, and it make the wife happy so she doesn’t have to repaint!
Conference Room Table for Elevate Insurance
One last project before we close out 2020 delivered. Our friends at Elevate Insurance were in need of a conference table to match the other pieces we created for them. Using 2X6 and 1X6 premium pine, we created this 8′ X 35″ V-legged Table. We …
Fencing for the Pups!
Welcome to the Farm! We are so Excited to Start our new adventures!. Kinda overwhelming at the moment but we will settle in. As we are Moving in, one of the first things we had to do was finish off the fence in the back …
Headboard Bench
This is one of our first projects, Merideth bought an old headboard at a garage sale and had a great vision of this bench.
We took it home and sanded all the old lacquer and paint, lots of sanding and really not my favorite thing to do. We had some prefab spindles in our supply stash that we acquired from our local Habitat for Humanity (we call it the Restore Store cause it sounds cool). We measured the sitting hight, I believe was 17″, and cut the ends off the spindles to use for the front legs.
We built the frame out of 1X4s and built it to the frame. I built the benchtop also out of 1X4s and mounted them width-wise instead of lengthwise.
Mer did the painting with Dixie Belle Paint and stained the benchtop with General Finishes Gel stain.
While she was working on that, I took the ends that I cut off the spindles and shaped them up a little bit and used them for the risers for the custom cut handrails I made (my first attempt at handrails).
After the painting and the staining, we did the final assembly. The benchtops were drilled and hand nailed with 2-inch finishing nails. The arms were attached to the spindles with wood glue and two ended nails then, from underneath and the back with Grip Fast® #9 x 2″ 6-Lobe Drive Steel Pro Trim Wood Screw (What a plug a?).
All sealed up with our favorite Minwax® Polycrylic® Clear Matte Protective Finish
This piece really didn’t hang around log, it was gone in about 2 hours after listing. Looking forward to the next one!
Share your headboard bench build with us!
DIY Stair Gates – Baby Gate – Dog Gate
So around these parts (ha ha ha) and probably in your neck of the woods too, new homes are being built so incredibly fast. They are beautiful with gorgeous wood trim, hardwood flooring, TALL basements, wide staircases… I could go on and on – but …