weekend project Archives | House and Hammer

Finders, fixers.

diy midcentury modern record player stand, with turntable and speakers on top and albums in the storage cubbies

DIY record player stand and using relative measurements

We’ve needed some kind of stand for our turntable and records, and couldn’t find anything we liked on Marketplace, and didn’t want to spend $100+ for some particle board junk. So I built this mid-century modern-style record player stand over the weekend. It’s a super simple DIY project! Read on for the tutorial – but…

DIY mailbox: Build an British-style postbox with scrap wood

We recently got our siding redone, a whole upheaval that included, among other things, temporarily removing our mailboxes from the front porch. But after all was said and done — with our house finally looking nice for like, the very first time in our tenure — we decided the rusty old mailboxes we got at…