Dolly, my 1962 VW Beetle – who we joke has a bedroom, not an actual garage haha – is again the subject of this weeks’ episode. This time we look at the issue of performance.

As it happened, a few weeks ago I needed to make a small coffee table very quickly – and here it is: the less than two hour coffee table!

In this episode, I’ll tell you how I made a set of funky unique coasters for use around the home – and it’s so simple you can do it too!

This is an elastic gun I made a few years back to deal with those pesky mosquitoes that sit out of reach on the wall and on ceilings! When I was a kid I had a plastic toy gun similar to this that used to shoot elastic bands, and a few of my friends did […]

This is an antique wooden box I bought for about R50 at a bootsale about six years ago. I have no idea what it was originally used for, but we use it to keep our games in – chess, Uno, cards, poker set, etc. The lining had gone when I got it, so when I […]

Old cars are like a comfortable pair of jeans – one day with a shock you realize it’s already threadbare and starting to wear through in places!

A back garden might seem like a bit of an odd sort of DIY project to some, but it really isn’t all that complicated. All you need is a little ingenuity, not much money – and bucketloads of patience! Nowadays our formerly cement garden is a place where we can relax and forget about the […]

Pelmets! They’re quite an old-fashioned feature, aren’t they? Most new houses don’t have them, and a lot of older houses have been redecorated in favor of newer tastes. But pelmets have another use – literally over and above just hiding unsightly curtain tracks – as you will see!

Some years ago, when I started to do some DIY improvements around the house, I was struck by how boring and dull our old vinyl-top kitchen table was. At the time I was enamoured of the look of a wooden “butcher’s block” type of kitchen table, and pondered my options. Buying a tailor-made item would […]