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From the wife of a maker, right to you. Keep up with our adventures and our Life Outside the Shop.
PRESENTED BY SAM MACY DESIGNS
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July 19, 2022
Building a sliding barn door for our walk-in closet has been one of the top priority projects on our list since renovating our house in 2017. Learn how we did it in our “How to Build a Sliding Barn Door” instructional YouTube video and with the steps we’re sharing today! Before the Barn Door: Our […]
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July 6, 2022
Welcome to Part One of our two-part home office renovation series. We take you from idea conception to, well, the giant hole in our house. This project — like most of our projects — was a long time coming and an even longer time desired. Before the reno, our (now) bright and airy office was […]
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January 8, 2021
Follow along with our DIY bookcase project and learn how to turn an old closet, awkward corner, or empty space into a gorgeous place to store your fav reads. If you haven’t read Part One of this project yet, you can catch up HERE! A Little DIY Bookcase Backstory I was a hide-under-the-covers-with-my-booklight-so-my-mom-couldn’t-catch-me-up-late kinda girl […]
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December 27, 2020
I’m feeling extra grateful for a handy hubby so we can get after some DIY bookcase building for my 28th birthday! It has been a week (plus!) of back-and-forth with some blog and website peeps trying (and failing… mostly on my part?) to relocate the blog to a new domain name – lifeoutsidetheshop.com. So, that […]
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December 1, 2020
We are SUPER excited about these DIY wedding signs because they are near and dear to our hearts. Today, we’re sharing the behind the scenes making of our wedding signage but this will work for any occassion. Birthday? Home Decore? Shower? You name it, you can build a sign for that. Check out the video […]
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October 20, 2020
Here it is! Finally! Learn how to make a pallet wood decoration – step by step. In other words, you get to learn alongside me while Sam teaches us to build something. I’ve promised this video at least I don’t know… 30 times… in our past Behind the Scenes post and video, on Instagram, and […]
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September 25, 2020
Sure, DIY and step-by-step how-to videos are fun (and we have that coming your way soon too), but it is the behind the scenes stuff that really takes the cake if you ask me. Thats why we’re taking you behind the scenes of our pallet wood decor project day! Sundays are sacred days around here […]
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September 22, 2020
T-minus almost exactly two years ago, Sam put out a DIY YouTube video walking through the steps to make a plyometric box. We’re huge CrossFitters and the owner of our gym needed more boxes as our membership grew. Sharing is caring but in the middle of a fast workout, it can definitely be a tricky […]
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September 1, 2020
We’re still workin’ on puppy pallets over here while gearing up for some DIY wedding sign creation as well (VLOG and videos to come, I’m sure!). Making transparent paper has been a GAME CHANGER for us to keep it between the lines as we cut and create. As per ushe, I like to make things […]
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August 26, 2020
Welcome to Life Outside The Shop’s first DIY video teaching you the best way to break down a pallet! I wish I could say that we get up to a lot of DIY stuff over here but that would definitely be a lie. You know that saying, “the shoemaker’s kid has no shoes”? Well, the […]
