26 January 2012

Build a useful two-door cabinet

This easy-to-build two-door cabinet clears clutter and spruces up a room.  

05 December 2011

DIY Handbook 2011

Are you a DIY practitioner? Do you enjoy building things, fixing stuff and generally making yourself useful around the house? If so, you’ll appreciate the 32-page DIY Handbook accompanying this issue of PM. Aside from the host of useful hints, it showcases a compelling variety of what we term “non-threatening”... 

18 October 2011

Tool Guide 2011: how to make hardware work for you

Here's our latest selection of the best tools to suit your budget – plus some hands-on advice on the best use of tools. We also take a look at a revolutionary building system than can be tackled by just about anyone, and introduce you to three people who wax eloquent on the subject of their favourite tools,... 

01 September 2011

One-day project: Bird feeder

Make squirrel-proof bird feeder. 

29 July 2011

One-day project: Build a hot-box solar oven

No power? No problem. Bake off the grid with a sun-fuelled oven hot enough to raise some dough. 

01 June 2011 -  By: Mike Allen

Overhead toolrack

Pneumatic tools take up plenty of space in a toolbox, far more than hand tools, which generally lie flat in a relatively shallow drawer.  

25 May 2011

Build a picnic table

Here's how to build a durable picnic table in a weekend 

27 January 2011

How to build the ultimate mobile storage cabinet

This cabinet on castors is ready for any storage needs you may have. 

01 January 2011

One day project: Tool-O-Dex

Typical workshop pegboards are too small for a big tool collection. The solution? Take a cue from the office Rolodex and build a Tool-ODex, a pegboard flip book that packs 4 m² of storage area into 0,5 m² of wall space. 

15 December 2010

Build a classic garden wheelbarrow planter

If you’re bored with the statuettes of nymphs and gnomes, cutesy signboards and bird feeders that have become familiar parts of the garden landscape, here’s a garden feature with a difference. And unlike a Venus de Milo replica, our wheelbarrow actually looks like it belongs in the shrubbery.