Easiest Kitchen Backsplash Install Ever

If you're short on time, money and effort but still need covet a new tile backsplash then it looks like SIMPLEMAT is for you. It literally adheres to your current backsplash of tile or wallpaper and your done! Without grout there's no mortar, mixing, or mess.

They also have kitchen countertop applications as well.

Apply the Fun Theory to Your Home

This video making the rounds on the internet is out to prove that if we take daily chores and add a fun element, they become much less rote and more enjoyable. Isn't that what life is about? When designing a room or home what can we do to make it more fun without being a gimmick or cheesy? Are there ways to make workshop or home improvement more fun?

Take This Tool Advice from Norm Abram

Check out this video of Master Carpenter Norm Abram being interviewed at last years AWFS show by Popular Woodworking magazine. Great insights into his favorite tools and techniques.

Tools Norm Abram Value's the Most
Table saw - because it touches each project
Joiner - straighten rough lumber
Surface Planer - required to keep everything level and square

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The Bathroom Reinvented: Turning to Greywater

Close loop water systems are sustainable and a major step in water conservation.

Ecologist Brent Bucknum, principal of Hyphae Design Lab in Oakland, California, shares the ABC's of re-routing a home's waste water (greywater) to sustainably irrigate gardens and other green spaces. He takes us from his live/work space in Oakland to several residential sites around Berkeley that feature greywater systems in various stages of completion.

[via Dwell]

Concrete Slab Flooring - Spice it Up