Open flat wall shelves are a very convenient and versatile type of furniture: besides, for example, books, they can beautifully hold houseplants, vases, and decorative interior items. For this case, I would like to suggest a simple solution to the problem of mounting such shelves. These are support brackets, each consisting of two main parts: Read more…
A built-in wardrobe is good already because it takes at least half as much material to make as a conventional carcass unit, yet it holds far more, since it is usually made full height from floor to ceiling. A sliding-door wardrobe has doors that overlap and do not need the extra, often considerable, clearance required, Read more…
The bottom bracket of a road bicycle — and indeed of any other bicycle — is probably its most heavily loaded mechanism. Therefore, in bottom brackets with external tapered bearings, bearing cages often fail under heavy overloads, and the ball races on the cones of the bottom bracket spindle are frequently damaged as well. Intensive Read more…
Research by scientists and beekeepers’ experience show that with adequate quality feed and careful management, flying honey producers tolerate wintering well even in severe frost. For a weakened bee colony in cold weather, the trouble is less the low temperature than high humidity, when frames and the inner surfaces of hives grow mold, and the Read more…
For most days of the summer vacation, people enjoy carefree family rest, often spent at a country house, on a homestead plot, or in a garden. It is during this time that everyone tries to make up for the fresh air and sunshine they did not get enough of during the year, enjoying them to Read more…
A Russian folk tale, “The Fox, the Hare, and the Cock,” tells us: “The fox built herself an icy hut—from snow and ice, and the hare a bast hut—from tough twigs and little boards…” Still, truthful as fairy tales may be, a hare could not raise an entire hut from such material, because linden bast Read more…
It’s a pity to throw away plywood offcuts, thin boards, and chipboard, even if you have nowhere to use them. However, I have a suggestion: make a kind of wood-air panel from the offcuts. You will need glue (PVA or epoxy), battens, strips, paint (or varnish), and possibly fabric (for example, an old sheet). The Read more…
Dacha plots… Just [~600 m²]. How can you fit a house, a separate kitchen-dining room, a utility block, a bathroom, and a garage on this tiny patch? And you still want to plant something… We present a compact three-story cottage house where, under a single roof, all of the above can be arranged quite comfortably. Read more…
I suggest that readers of the magazine make attractive, hard-wearing mats from plastic packaging straps from crates. You can place them in front of the entrance door of a country house or dacha, or in a city apartment—for example, in the bathroom; they are also handy in a car interior. The weaving technique is not Read more…
In recent decades, the world has been experiencing a bicycle boom. Today, the bicycle is the number one means of transport on the planet, and even the car yields the palm: for every four-wheeled vehicle, there are two two-wheeled ones. A bicycle does not pollute the atmosphere and improves health. The author, formerly an avid Read more…
