Soap as a Furniture and Floor Finish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiJ3qsdPTUo An old idea still practiced in some northern European countries, dissolved soap flakes can be used as a furniture and floor finish. Soap is non-toxic and, as Christopher Schwarz points out in this video, your clothes get cleaner when you take on this annual chore. And that’s the only catch: like wax, you have to re-apply at least once a year as part of a household wide soapy cleaning ritual. More detail...

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How to Avoid “Avocado Hand”

...t there’s a song by Swedish singer Jens Lekman about avocado hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwIAbcLFhI I was slicing up an avocado When you came up behind me With your silent brand-new sneakers Your reflection I did not see It was the hottest day in August And we were heading for the sea For a second my mind started drifting You put your arms around me You put your arms around me You put your arms around Blood spraying on the kitchen sink...

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The Coolest How-To Video Ever?

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR9_CjQYZj4 Even if you’ll never make your own bespoke cutting board it’s fun to watch Scott Lewis make one while simultaneously crafting one of the best shot how-to videos I’ve ever seen....

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Your Open Floor Plan is a Death Trap

...and prevent those house flippers from removing walls in old homes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7T43OmErmU Synthetic Furniture Another big factor in house fires has been an increased use of polyurethane foam in furniture. It turns out that foam is more dangerous than the cotton it replaced. I will add that fire spreads faster in particleboard, plywood and MDF than in hardwood (see Flame Spread Performance of Wood Products). All reasons not to...

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