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How to Build a Raised Garden BedRaised garden beds are the fastest, easiest route to bumper crop veggie harvests. Here’s how to make one in a weekend or less.
How to Build a Fire Pit in Your Backyard
With this masonry fire pit plan, you can skip the concrete and morta…
Pergola Plans: How to Build Your Own Pergola
Step-by step plans to make an arbor-like cedar structure, with 3D an…
How to Make a Clip-On Book Light
Learn about basic electricity and soldering in this fun and useful p…
How to Build a Wooden Wagon
A toy wagon is the quintessential holiday gift, even in an age as di…
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How to Make a Two-Board Backyard Lounger
One afternoon of work, one great chair.
How to Make a Dumbwaiter
For all those times you want to move something from the deck to the ground and the stairs are just too far away.
How to Make a Box
The box is the most elemental structurebut dont take that to mean that its simple. We asked three woodworkers to build a simple box to …
How to Build Leonardo Da Vinci's Catapult
In his new book Defending Your Castle, William Gurstelle shows you how to build catapults, crossbows and all the other devices you need…
Build Your Own Beautiful Flat-Pack Chair
With a borrowed CNC router, we cut all the pieces for this Eames chair from a single sheet of wood. Follow our plans and youll have a f…
Build This Update on the Classic Toolbox
Carpenters and DIY guys have been using the A-frame toolbox for more than a century. And thats exactly why were reinventing it now.
How to Build a Chess and Checkerboard
A simple but elegant DIY project you can do with some help from your kids? Checkmate.
Build a Birdhouse in 7 Easy Steps
This project is kid-friendly. It took just a couple of hours to build and cost less than $25, not counting the paint, which I already h…
Pedal Power! How to Build a Bike Generator
Hey, DIY Cyclists: Bring your bike indoors and generate electricity while you ride.
Build This Beautiful Table for Two
An updated version of a 1939 PopMech project, this chic table can be built with scrap wood.
How to Build a Rolling, Low-Profile Shop Light for Your Garage
Getting enough illumination while working underneath a car is a problem that has plagued every gearhead. PopMech invented our own DIY s…
How to Make a Modern Adirondack Chair
The classic backyard beauty gets a well-deserved makeover in these plans for an updated adirondack chair.
Store Your Cords Without Tangling Them Up
Long extension cords inevitably tie themselves up into a tangled mess. But with this simple project, use a empty bucket and some PVS pi…