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How To Paint A Chair

I work listing leather sofas for sale on a website that I can’t name here (!) but on my lunch break wandering around an art gallery in London the other day, I came across a beautiful hand-painted chair. Several people were standing there marvelling at how wonderful it was, saying how they could never do anything like it, but on closer inspection I found it to be almost IDENTICAL to the chair that I myself had made in sixth form More

Flat-pack furniture

Flat-pack furniture is designed to be so easy even the most bungling of DIY-ers can out it together. Stores like Ikea rely heavily on the flat-pack assembly option and they seem to be as popular as ever, so it can’t be that hard–right?

There are a few hints and tips that can make assembling flat-pack furniture easier for those who don’t know one end of a screwdriver from the other. Step One: Ladies, even though its flat pack, you will More

How To Keep Calm And Build Stuff

D.I.Y. Is one of those things: either your brain was built including a rough idea of how to do this without harming either yourself or anyone who goes to use the shelves / whatever you have built out of the kindness of your heart…or your brain is missing the vital instructions and no matter how hard you try, the flat pack furniture is always complete…but complete missing several crucial looking bolts. So, in fact, not complete at all. And you More