Lumber prices have skyrocketed this year. Demand is high and supply chains have been disrupted, thanks, in part, to the pandemic. This makes it tricky to tackle those 2 x 4 projects without emptying ...

This DIY has a bit of a backstory: In my basement workshop—as a byproduct of about a half dozen previous projects—I'd managed to accumulate a small mountain of scrap wood. Though the pieces varied in ...