The Top Site For DIY Home Improvement Projects
Most of what you will find in BuildThingsDirect are diy home improvement projects that you can do yourself. Most are made from wood because it is easy to work with, can be made into pretty well anything, and is cheap to buy. It is also a renewable product, which is good in this ‘green’ age. Some projects, of course, use other materials as well as wood, but you will find each project easy to do and very rewarding.
None require any great skills but all require a willingness to plan properly and take action.
Experience in building many such diy projects ourselves enables us to review and recommend those products that will help you achieve what you want in the most efficient way and for the best value for money.
BuildThingsDirect constantly recommends that you use good plans – drawings, blueprints, step-by-step instructions, full materials lists, videos – to help achieve a satisfying result to a professional standard. We believe that this is essential, and make no apologies for sponsoring links to products that we feel are the best available for you.
Click here to check out over 14,000 great plans for diy home improvement
Remember that one good set of plans will provide all your future DIY needs – unless, that is, you plan on more than14,000 projects!
Our list of topics and information on diy home improvement and woodworking projects is constantly changing, but this is a summary of the current items here at BuildThingsDirect.
Reviews
Woodworking4Home – over 14,000 wood working plans for a huge number of do it yourself home improvement projects, including sheds, log cabins, gazebos, garden furniture, barns, birdhouses, boats, carports, doghouses, patio0 decks, greenhouses, rabbit hutches, pergolas and many more, together with assembly instructions, videos and general woodworking techniques. An excellent all-round plans kit for every kind of diy home improvements project.
MyShedPlans – over 12,000 woodworking project plans including a huge range of sheds and other outdoor buildings, plus detailed plans for doors, windows, dormers, skylights, fireplaces, many indoor items of furniture, and a multitude of techniques such as planning, bills of materials, woodworking and joinery, plumbing, wiring, roofing and flooring – a really comprehensive kit for any enthusiast planning any wood working projects online.
ChickenDIYguides – keeping chickens is now a growing and very popular hobby for many people, so we have included what we believe to be the best guide on the subject – it has simple step-by-step instructions, plans, photos and videos for building a large range of chicken coops from scratch, plus lots of information about such things as ckicken keeping regulations, diets, diseases, incubation and rearing, choosing the right breed, and everything else needed to keep hens happily and healthily.
Best Chicken Coop Guides – our reviews of the top chicken coop building guides together with our recommended Best Buy.
Best Chicken Coop Plans – our reviews of the top chicken coop building plans together with our recommended Best Buy.
Building Projects
These are the topics covered at present. Click on the links to go to the full page on the subject.
how to build a shed – part 1 of building a garden shed.
build your own shed – part 2 of building a garden shed.
making outdoor storage buildings – plan to make a utility shed to a profesional standard.
garden sheds and building projects – a look at the types of backyard sheds available.
garden shed plans – what you need to build a shed properly.
build a log cabin – how to build the log cabin dream.
using log home plans – how to use the right plans for building your log cabin.
log cabin plans to build your own cabin – a look at the range of plans available.
build a wooden summer house – the ever-popular summerhouse and how to build it.
build a gazebo – the best way to bring beauty to your garden.
how to build a doghouse – a simple project for making an outdoor kennel.
10 best dog house plans – where to get the best plans for building a backyard kennel.
how to build a chicken coop – what is involved in making a good chicken coop.
build a chicken tractor – how to make one of these useful mobile chicken coops.
build a chicken pen – how to make a safe run for your free-range hens.
raising backyard chickens – 10 vital steps before you start to build that chicken coop.
Building Project Information
We have assembled information and guidance about a large number of popular diy woodwork topics related to these backyard projects. These include:
woodworking techniques – how to develop and get the best out of your woodworking skills.
foundations – the basics of mixing concrete and making a shed base or foundation.
About BuildThingsDirect
There is also some information about us, our principal author Kieran Gracie and our policies which you might find interesting. You can find it all here:
about usSummary
Hopefully you will find plenty to interest you within these pages. We have tried to include things that will inspire, things that can be made in a weekend, things that are useful, things that will save you money and provide lots of enjoyment.
We show you how to avoid the ‘free’ woodworking plan offers that will end up costing you much more in the long run in terms of wasted time, wasted efforts, wasted materials and wasted enthusiasm.
When we recommend a particular product you can be sure that it will do what it says on the label, that it will have been tried and tested, and that it will be good value for money.
You need to enjoy your woodworking projects, wooden storage shed or other projects, and we will help you to have fun making them.
Put that creative streak to good use and start building that woodwork project you have been thinking about for so long!
Click here to check out 14,000 great plans for woodworking projects
