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Turning random pieces of hardware into art is possible, but it's not always easy. By the time you're done driving to Home Depot, assembling all the parts on the floor of the store, dealing with [...]

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A while back we showed you the Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk, which is a serious upgrade from pretty much anything that can be assembled with allen keys. While distressed cigar leather and brass nails [...]

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After having a few at a family gathering, it is not all together uncommon for us to have a bit of an issue getting a standard folding chair back into storage form, which is exactly [...]

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We've never looked up at a transmission tower holding up power lines and thought, "Gotta get one of those for my foyer." To be honest, we've never thought much of them at all. The design must have [...]

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There comes a time in a guy's life when he needs to upgrade from the dorm room video game chairs that you can pick up from Bed Bath and Beyond for twenty bucks. While they're [...]

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One of the reasons we spend so much of our hard-earned money (if you consider paychecks accrued by writing about the latest bacon-covered foods and iPhone accessories "hard-earned") on stuff for our home is because [...]

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Before we were complaining that Bane is less understandable than someone at 2am on their 21st birthday, we were reading about The Dark Knight's adventures in the pages of a comic book. The same goes [...]

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Michelangelo claimed he would look at a piece of marble, see the carving in it and simply proceed to set it free. It's kinda the same way we look at something as simplistic as a [...]

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We can't remember exactly when it happened (probably somewhere around the time jobs started getting measured in tens of thousands of dollars instead of per hour), but we began to pay more attention to some [...]

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We don't consider ourselves sneakerheads by any stretch of the imagination, but we have been known to indulge in a few extra unnecessary pairs of kicks simply because they looked good. If you think about [...]

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We've talked about industrial pipe shelving before, but it still continues to intrigue us. Repurposing home building materials (or anything at Home Depot, really) for use as design centerpieces is something most men consider themselves [...]

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The last time you had a shipping pallet in your place was probably when an essential appliance (read: gigantic 3D LED TV) got delivered. They're basically just a bunch of pieces of wood bonded together [...]

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+1 might be the new big thing in social media, but this is still very much a "like" world. You don't tell people you enjoyed the 35 new pictures of their cat clogging up your [...]

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We've always been the type of guys that would rather do it ourselves when it comes to improving the place we call home. Saving money is definitely a part of it, but the satisfaction that [...]

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Magazines have a way of piling up and eating coffee table and/or bathroom space at a ridiculous pace. Every month, a new collection of GQ, Esquire, FHM, Car and Driver, Rolling Stone and Spin (and [...]

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