It’s the summer season of DIY: This 12 months, each different Friday, we’re revisiting some favourite, easy-to-tackle initiatives from the archives, like this one:
There’s no have to get fancy on the subject of propping open a door, however a wedge of wooden is a lot nicer than a mood-killing piece of plastic or rubber. Years in the past, my mom returned from a visit to London with a standard English turned oak doorstop made by David Linley, aka “the royal carpenter.” We have now used his handiwork each day ever since, so I used to be delighted to come back throughout its raffish American-made counterpart: a DIY door wedge created by Anna of Annabode & Co. for Dwelling Made by Carmona. Could it open doorways for you.
Challenge and images courtesy of Dwelling Made by Carmona.
Supplies
- Piece of wooden roughly 1.5 inches large and 6.5 inches lengthy. Use scrap wooden or purchase a size of wooden, resembling Dwelling Depot’s Poplar Interest Board; $5.34 for 3 toes (sufficient to make a number of doorstops).
- Size of leather-based, 1/2 inch large and 5 inches lengthy. Contemplate reducing up an previous belt.
- Noticed. “Use no matter sort of noticed you have got readily available,” says Anna.
- Sandpaper
- Drill
- Pencil and ruler
- Excessive-gloss white paint
- Minwax Polycrylic, a protecting end.
- Paintbrushes
- One No. 6 brass washer. Dwelling Depot sells five-packs of Brass Ending Washers for $1.18.
- One No. 6 brass flathead screw. Dwelling Depot sells four-packs of 6 3/4 inch Phillips Flat-Head Wooden Screws for $1.18.
