2008-01-21
Posted in Lair Improvement
at 4:39
Have you ever wished you had a nice little basket hanging off your desk to store things like pens, notepads, vitamin D tablets, and so on without cluttering up the desk itself? If so, read on.
My desk is made of scrap lumber and I don’t mind drilling a couple of holes in it, but I understand that not everybody will feel the same, so I’ll provide two sets of instructions.
First, for a strong basket on a desk made of real wood:
- One wireframe drawer organizer ($1 at my local dollar store)
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2008-01-09
Posted in Lair Improvement
at 7:07
Today’s tip is budget cable management and I can think of three main techniques I use:
First, the simple and expedient method of using wood staples or hammer-in cable clips to fasten cables to wood surfaces. (The latter can often be found at dollar stores in packs of 25 to 200)
Second, for larger or more numerous cables, one can always buy screw-in hooks and then run the cables through them. I often use this technique for routing cables along the underside of my home-made desk, but it’s not very pretty, so I avoid it for places where the cables will be visible.
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2008-01-08
Posted in Lair Improvement
at 3:36
At some point or other, many people have no-doubt wanted a way to control their touch lamp from a distance. In my case, it was because there was a lot of stuff in the way.
What many people apparently don’t realize is how simple this is. Just tape, loop, or otherwise fasten one end of a wire to the touch-sensitive portion of the lamp and connect the other end to whatever metal object you want to control the touch lamp.
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2007-11-21
Posted in Lair Improvement
at 0:52
It’s a fairly safe bet that, at some point or other, everybody has wanted a “Do Not Disturb” sign for their room. Unfortunately, the kind you hang on your door handle tend to be difficult to make and don’t always work very well with certain doors. (Mine, for example. It eats them in a day or two.)
As such, I’m going to tell you about a quick and easy way to make something a little more interesting: The type of hanging flip-sign you always see in the movies with “Open” on one side and “Closed” on the other. One additional pleasant feature of this design is that most dollar store handy-persons will already have all the necessary materials.
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