Archive for the ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Category

How to Build Your Own Bookshelf

Monday, February 16th, 2009 |

From time to time here on Prime Time Money I like to share some of the woodworking or home-improvement projects I complete in my spare time. Sometimes these are ideas that have saved me money. Most of the time though, they’re just things I do to have some fun and use my brain in a [...]

How to Paint a Room for Less

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 |

Occasionally I’ll use Prime Time Money to present some of the Do-It-Yourself projects I’ve done around my house.  While this isn’t directly related to the main theme of the site, hopefully it will provide some motivation to try your own money-saving project.  If I can do it, you can!
Today I thought I would share some tips I picked [...]

How to Build Your Own Desk – Part 3 (It’s Finished!)

Monday, January 28th, 2008 |

Occasionally I’ll use Prime Time Money to present some of the do-it-yourself projects I’ve done around my house.  While this isn’t directly related to the main theme of the site, hopefully it will provide some motivation to try your own money-saving project.
If I can do it, you can!  Parts one and two of this series were posted last Summer.  [...]

How To Build Your Own Desk – Part 2

Monday, July 9th, 2007 |

I’ve been building a desk for our home office. I thought it might be more economical to make one instead of buying. Plus, it would serve as a nice night and weekend project for me. Here are the plans I’m using. It’s been a while since I’ve made enough progress to post again about this [...]

How To Build Your Own Desk – Part 1

Saturday, May 5th, 2007 |

My wife and I have been needing a home office desk for a while now. We currently have the PC on the floor, with the monitor right on top of it. I use one of my old drums to place the mouse upon. It’s very sad.We’re saving for a down payment on a town home, [...]