DIY

Welcome to DIY, where the Domestic Daemon approaches home improvement with boundless enthusiasm, questionable judgement and a firm conviction that almost anything can be fixed with the right tools and a sufficiently large cup of tea.

Here you’ll find tales of ambitious projects, improvised solutions, unexpected complications and those deceptively simple little jobs that somehow consume an entire weekend. Instructions are occasionally consulted, measurements are sometimes accurate, and trips to the hardware shop are rarely limited to one.

I firmly believe there’s enormous satisfaction in doing things yourself, even if the finished result bears only a passing resemblance to the original plan.

After all, how difficult can it possibly be?

Famous last words.