Adventures in Restoration - Designer offers general advice about restoration projects, including whether to do it yourself or hire a professional.
Appliance411 - General home appliance information for consumers including money saving purchasing and servicing tips, getting repair parts, and links to merchants.
Building Materials and Wood Technology - site that covers construction and related materials. Questions about building materials, forest products, wood, economics, and residential construction as well as those about business and marketing in the building materials industry can be answered for free at Ask the Experts. Feature Articles include: selecting windows, decoding building codes, controlling termites and carpenter ants, sizing and calculating loads for headers and beams, watertight details, using span table for joists, and many related topics.
Candle and Soap Making - site has instructions and recipes for making candles, soaps, and related items such as lotions.
Do It Yourself Congressional Investigation Kit - offers a complete consumer guide to who's ponying up the cash, who's on the receiving end of the slush fund gravy train, and how it affects tax payers. The relevant Political Action Committees and their puppet politicians are organized by subject: health care, gambling, drunk driving, drug safety, phone rates, and more.
Do It Yourself.com - More than 36 topics, covering everything from appliances, energy saving, and concrete, to woodworking.
DYI: Do it Yourself Network - Companion to the cable television show, DIY offers appealing how-to projects with illustrated step-by-step directions in handy, printable format.
Elektric Anvil, The - purpose is the sharing of knowledge, education and to expose the art of blacksmithing to the public
Fixit Home Page - suggestions and ideas for home improvements. Look them up by room, type of job, or quick tip.
Furniture Finishing Wizard - The Refinishing Wizard is a community resource for everyone interested in repair, restoration, and refinishing. No matter if this is your first effort, or you've been doing this type of work for years, we welcome your participation!
Home Maintenance and Repair - Michigan State University Extension Services database of hundreds of tips on caring for your home and the stuff you put in it. You can find tips on everything from stain removal to controlling carpenter bees to fixing a plugged drain.
Hometime - Welcome to Hometime's How-To Center where you will find step-by-step instructions on over 25 different home improvement and repair topics."
HouseNet. - an online neighborhood with home improvement information for homeowners, do-it-yourselfers and contractors with interactive project calculators, message boards and news about products.
How Things Work (1) - Get beyond fixing things and find out the physics of how they work. Search the archives or ask the professor.
ImproveNet - "ImproveNet is a nationwide team of home improvement experts whose mission is to make the home remodeling process more successful for both homeowners and service providers. ImproveNet helps homeowners through every step of their home improvement projects."
Learn2.com - help of hundreds of tutorials - everything from fixing a leaky faucet to defrosting the freezer to curing a hangover.
Learn2Type.com - This is an experimental interactive website, that provides online touch typing practice exercises, and keeps track of your progress. Practice exercises are tailored to your progress. Access to this website is totally FREE!
LivingHome - advice and online tools for remodeling, home repair, and decorating projects.
Low Voltage Home Pre-Wire Guide - article is intended to present ideas, discuss experiences, and generally assist those building or remodeling a house, who plan on installing low voltage wiring for audio, video, home automation, phone, and data communications.
Remodeling Online - "Where the smart remodelers turn for how-to, design, and business advice."
RepairClinic.com - "Making it easier to repair your own appliances."
SoYouWanna.com - SoYouWanna.com teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school.
This Old House - access to expert advice on home improvement, remodeling and decorating from America's premier home improvement TV series on the web.
Toiletology 101 - complete course in toilet repairs and maintenance. learn how to save water and money by keeping plumbing fixtures in good repair.
Upholster! Magazine Online - online magazine contains a wealth of information about all types of upholstery. Free basic and advanced instructions are available for furniture, automobile, and marine upholstery projects.
Bob Vila's American Home - Get help when making important decisions about improving and redesigning your home.
Water Treatment FAQ - Find out what the best water for coffee is, how to improve your drinking water and what to do about smelly water or water that stains
Weeno - Weeno is a user-run knowledge base where you learn from others and submit your own tips, tutorials and how-to's on any topic.
Window Shades - "No Brainer Blinds and Shades has information and advice to help you with choosing the right window treatments, decorating your home, keeping your children and pets safe, and much more."
WoodNet - site includes tool reviews, links to other woodworking sites, and the heart of the site: 101 Woodworking Tips &Techniques, divided into General Shop Tips, Table Saw, Finishing, Router/Router Table, Gluing, Drill Press/Drilling, Sanding, Planing/Joining, Assembly, Layout, and Clamping.
WoodWeb - Database of woodworking resources, including a lumber buying guide, events calendar and a weekly feature on wood types.
