Furniture & Lighting

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.

Make: Projects – Doortop Stash

Make: Projects – Doortop Stash

What does the top edge of say, your utility closet door look like? Iโ€™m betting that youโ€™ve probably never seen it, even if youโ€™ve lived in your home for awhile. And although thereโ€™s not a lot of room to hide stuff in there, well, if youโ€™re like me, the stuff you want to hide is usually on the smaller side. Not many people think of the space inside the door as a hiding spot, but itโ€™s right there in easy reaching distance when you need to get to it. And itโ€™s devious enough that, yes, I think this trick will still be effective even after we blog it all over the tubes.

Top 10:  Shelves And Shelving

Top 10: Shelves And Shelving

I recall an infomercial a few years back for a little plastic triangle that stuck in a corner, between two walls, to make a small corner shelf. I don’t remember the exact name of the product, but I do remember that the commercial exhausted all the obvious self/shelf puns: “shelf esteem,” “shelf confidence,” “shelf defense,” “shelf-employed,” etc., etc. So I’ll forgo I’ll the all the opportunities this topic offers for shelf-referential humor and just get down to business.