Rate this post I’ve got this drawer in the kitchen that’s had a wobbly handle for probably six months now. Every time I opened it I’d think “right, I’ll sort that today,” and then obviously never did. What finally pushed me was running out of the one screw size I actually had lying around, mid-fix, […]
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Rate this post Last winter our wood burner just wasn’t cooperating. I’d load it up, get a flame going, and ten minutes later it’d be sulking again, more smoke than heat, and the glass front turning black way faster than it should’ve. Turned out the logs I’d been buying from the petrol station down the […]
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Rate this post So my dining chair had this wobble for months. Small one, but you’d hear it creak every time my dad sat down and leaned back too far, and I kept thinking “yeah that’s gonna snap one day.” Eventually I got tired of hearing it and went to fix it myself, which meant […]
Read MoreRate this post bought a set of frames for our hallway gallery wall a while back, matching set, looked nice online, and within a year two of them had corners that had actually opened up slightly, just enough the backing board wouldn’t sit flush anymore. picked at one of the joints out of curiosity and […]
Read MoreRate this post redid our kitchen a couple years ago, went with the cheapest cabinet line the showroom had, mostly because the display kitchen looked genuinely great and I figured cabinets are cabinets, right. eighteen months later the doors near the dishwasher had swollen slightly from steam and wouldn’t close flush anymore, and one drawer […]
Read MoreRate this post picked up a wooden rattle at a market stall a couple years back for my nephew, looked lovely, smooth, painted nicely, and it was only after I got home and actually smelled it that I realized the paint had this sharp chemical edge to it that real toy-safe finishes just don’t have. […]
Read MoreRate this post bought a cheap cutting board off the first listing that came up a while back, bamboo, looked fine in photos, and within a couple months it had these deep grooves running through it that never went away no matter how much I scrubbed. turns out bamboo’s actually harder on knife edges than […]
Read MoreRate this post we redid the flooring in our old flat about two years back and honestly went in knowing almost nothing. picked a “solid oak” floor mostly because it looked nice in the showroom, paid a decent amount for it, and it wasn’t until the fitter showed up and started asking questions I couldn’t […]
Read MoreRate this post So a friend of mine had this carved wooden panel in her hallway, right across from a window that gets sun for maybe three hours every afternoon. After about a year, one side of it had bowed a little, just enough that it wouldn’t sit flat on the wall anymore. She figured […]
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Rate this post Okay, so a few years ago I bought a bookshelf. “Solid oak,” the listing said. I was happy with it until I had to move it and flipped it over, and there’s just… plywood. Stapled on. With staples missing in a few spots already. I remember standing there thinking, well, that explains […]
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