Hot Home & Garden How-Tos
How To: Cut, sew, foam and upholster a new dining chair
Check out this video to learn how to cut, sew, foam and upholster a new welt and boxed dining chair.
How To: Upholster a chair and select fabric
Michael and Marianne show you the correct way to replace the foam and fabric for your dining room chair.
How To: Finish upholstering a headboard
Watch Michael show you how to cut the foam for your upholstered headboard. Part 1 of 2 - How to Finish upholstering a headboard.
How To: Upholster a cornice board or valance
Check out this video to learn how create a beautiful designer upholstered cornice board or valance. It's not expensive to make, but you must already have a saw and drill.
How To: Build a simple window flower box
Add appeal to your new home with a new window box you make yourself. This video shows you how.
How To: Select a garden shed for your backyard
Pat Simpson helps you select the right shed for your back yard. Whether your using it for supplies or tools, he'll point you in the right direction.
How To: Turn a salvaged urn into a garden fountain
In this video, Amy R. Hughes shows you how to breathe new life into a salvaged urn by creating this easy water feature in 5 quick steps.
How To: Make a wooden doorknob coatrack
Gathering the materials is probably the most challenging part of the project, though it's great fun.
How To: Make a folding screen using old hinges and shutters
Assembling the wooden screen is simple, but be prepared to get grimy while rooting around the salvage yard for matching hinges.
How To: Create a chimney pot garden light
All you've got to do is a some simple wiring and a little digging in the garden.
How To: Create a vintage tile tabletop end table
Amy H. Hughes helps you make a vintage tile tabletop. Part of the fun of making this table was rooting through the tile crates with Rosi Zingales at Olde Good Things in New York City. Our first find was an 1890s 6-by-6-incher depicting a Spanish Colonial mission, for $45. This, we agreed, would be the centerpiece. Next were four flowered accents, $8 each, and 30 yellow-and-white marbled tiles from an old fireplace surround that we bought in bulk for $40. We also uncovered the wrought-iron tab...
How To: Make a Unique Cardboard Chair
There have been numerous chairs made out of recycled or reclaimed cardboard. This week on the GreenerBusiness Podcast, we attempt to build our own unique comfortable cardboard chair.
How To: Make a portable solar powered USB charger with Altoids
Check out this Greener Business Show video tutorial on how to make a portable solar powered USB charger with an LED flashlight inside an Altoids tin can. You will see in this episode how to modify a solar path light into the Altoids tin so that you can have a nifty LED flashlight and so you can charge your iPod or cell phone in the gleaming sunlight.
How To: Make a iPod dock from bamboo
In this week's GreenerBusiness Podcast, we show you how to find new purpose in an old one foot piece of bamboo and a CD case. Who wants wires cluttering their iPod area? No one. Use that bamboo for a dock! And see how many possibilities they are for a simple CD case to be more than a simple CD case.
How To: Make greencards (eco-friendly business cards)
In this episode of GreenerBusiness, we show you how to make seed-embedded environmental-friendly business cards, as seen on www.rccosmos.org/greencard.
How To: Harvest potatoes
Check out this description on how to harvest home grown potatoes. Learn from a survivalist on his daughter's birthday!
How To: Make desks out of bamboo, bubble wrap, and cardboard
The design of our set is very simple and effective, so we wanted to take some time on this first episode to talk about how we made it. Hope you enjoy this episode and all future GreenerBusiness Podcasts.
How To: Fix a cracked walnut bowl
This is a lesson in fixing a crack in a walnut bowl with cherry strips.
How To: Properly tape a cardboard box
Learn how to use a tape gun to tape a cardboard box. A simple concept that so few people understand the premise behind.
How To: Clean dirt from a leather sofa & re-apply conditioner
This is a short video showing how to clean dirt from a leather sofa and re-apply leather conditioner. Be careful cleaning unfinished leather with a liquid cleaner.
How To: Cut fence pickets
Learn how to cut fence pickets and add decorative touches.
How To: Make cutting boards
Learn how to make a quality cutting board, which will teach you the basics of woodworking and save you money.
How To: Make a jewelry box
This simple band saw jewelry box is easy to make. Measurements can be quite varied, as it is the concept which is important.
How To: Make paper pots
Dave from Dave's Garden explains how to make paper pots for young plants.
How To: Make raised beds
Dave from Dave's Garden explains how to make raised beds.
How To: Use a curbing machine to pour concrete
Learn how to use the Miller Concrete Landscape Curbing Machine. You will also learn the basics of making curbing mix.
How To: Make a gourd bird house
Here you can learn how to make a cute little bird house out of a dried gourd.
How To: Harvest spinach by cutting off big leaves
Check out this video to learn information on how to harvest spinach.
How To: Make biodiesel fuel in a production setting
The Guys at Parley's Diesel Performance teamed up with Graydon Blair of Utah Biodiesel Supply show you the necessary ratios of oil, methanol and catalyst for Biodiesel production on a small and a large scale.
How To: Pack wine glasses
Long stemmed wine glasses can be a challenge to pack, but Toronto's Best Moving Store shows you a quick and safe method to pack them.
How To: Install an acoustic wall panel cutout
Watch this video to learn the correct way to make and install cutouts for electrical outlets in acoustical wall panels.
How To: Install an acoustic wall panel using a zbar
Install an acoustic wall panel using a zbar.
How To: Install a wall panel with adhesive
Install acoustical wall panels using adhesive to secure the panel to the wall.
How To: Measure a gourd's thickness without cutting it open
Check out this video to learn how to measure a gourd's thickness without cutting it open
How To: Size or measure a gourd
Learn how to size a gourd with tips from this video.
How To: Fix a leaking tap
Watch this step-by-step guide to replacing a washing and fixing a dripping tap. First, turn off the water supply of the tap.
How To: Fix a broken tile
Watch this step-by-step essential guide to fixing broken tiles. You don't have to re-tile the whole areas.
How To: Hang shelves
Watch this step-by-step essential guide to hanging shelves.
How To: Unblock a sink with the right tools
Watch this step-by-step essential guide to unblocking sinks and basins. Use a plunger, petroleum jelly, a cloth, a wrench, and a piece of metal.
How To: Fix a creaky floor
Watch this step-by-step essential guide to fixing creaky floorboards. Learn what equipment to use.