Welcome to DIY Diary. Each entry covers a new home improvement project. Here, J.R. Coffin and George Coffin, partners in business and life, take on an abandoned ottoman. When J.R. Coffin, architect ...

Take a look at your dining chairs? Are they sad? Stained? Do you wish they still looked the way they did in better days from before your kids “accidentally” spilled grape juice on them? Well, you’re ...

When properly maintained, a quality boat can last indefinitely. However, proper maintenance sometimes includes replacing and refurbishing parts that are subject to wear and tear. Seats are among the ...

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It seems like only yesterday that I was in the Grant Ford showroom in St. Petersburg, Florida, buying a new '85 Thunderbird. To lure then-young buyers like me, there were new Mustang GT hatchbacks and ...

Furniture maker Grant Trick, who has a furniture upholstery workroom in Birmingham, Ala., began his career as a sportswear designer, learning pattern making skills. He served as a showroom designer ...

There are two different types of decorators – those who like to repair and repurpose furniture, and those who see a damaged chair or table and decide it's time to replace it with something new. But ...

I’ve been asked to do a few articles that have a “how-to” type of topic. So, we’ll start out simple and do a how to reupholster a dining room chair. This is one of the simpliest how-to projects and a ...

I have been doing Auto Upholstery on my own since 1980. Being self-taught from an early age. I have always been guarded to share any of my knowledge because of competition, but now I realize that I am ...

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If you remember our '67 Six-To-Eight Frost Turquoise hardtop, you'll recall a daily driver that was mighty worn out. Faded paint and a sun-decayed interior were the only elements holding us up between ...