Projects on wood surfaces, DIY or otherwise, need sandpaper for a smooth and beautiful finish. Surface preparation of wood require the use of sandpaper, whether you want to remove the current coating on an already painted wood surface, or polish a wood surface that has not been painted yet. Sandpaper…
Dave starts a new season for DIY projects, which will all be about wooden surfaces. For this episode, he shows us how to make a wooden side table. https://youtu.be/40nRzHhRJoI What’s great about this side table is that it is stylish, functional, and has a light visual weight, which would work…
Dave’s latest DIY project is all about upcycling an old chopping board into a wooden wall clock. It’s a fairly easy project and the result gives a modern and organic feature to a wall. It’s functional too! https://youtu.be/82pjRBNp1W8 There are two products used for this project. The first one is…
Here’s a video tutorial from Dave about the available colors of Boysen Xyladecor. If you don’t know this product, get to know it better because it is an excellent solvent-based, deep penetrating type of stain that combines decorative, water repellent and wood preserving properties in one product. It dries to a silk matte finish…
Dave is back with a video tutorial on what seems to be de rigueur these days in homes and other living spaces—the ubiquitous aroma oil burner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZykqKxAOwI I’m such a sucker for upcycling, recycling, and other sustainability practices. So I’m all for having Dave transform an old bamboo chopping board…
With all the talk about minimalism and curating our spaces, there are still many of us who love to collect stuff. Some of us collect junk, those things that may come in handy one day…maybe…like plastic containers, paper and plastic bags, old newspapers and magazines, giveaway forks and spoons from…
If you’re a tita and your beloved niece wants a donut wall for her birthday party, you’d try your very best to get that for her. Thank God, Bea is a crafter so she just makes a donut wall, instead of looking around to buy one. For the cutting list…
After Undas, comes the big celebration of the year. The Christmas season is waiting in the wings so if you want to dress up your home for the Yuletide, then now is the time to unpack all the tinsel and baubles. The tree is arguably the pièce de résistance. If…
Gadgets are so much a part of our lives. A study done on the Philippine market that owns tech devices as of October 2022 shows 99% of internet users use mobile phones, and 61% use laptops or desktop computers. Another study, this time a global one, shows that the average…
One of the most common substrates that we use for our homes is wood. Here is Bea showing Boysen’s two paint systems for this type of surface. Boysen’s Enamel-Based Paint System There are two products that you can use for wood, found in both interiors and exteriors. It’s the enamel-based…
