My Life Needs a KnowHow Shop

Every morning, I hit the snooze button roughly seventeen times (This is no joke – this morning I snoozed for 50 minutes. It’s a wonder Mike doesn’t kill me.). Then I finally shut off that iPhone alarm and spend a few minutes peeking at my blog reader. It’s the little treat I use to get myself up and awake – slowly.

{Image from the lovely Heart of Light blog}

This morning, I happened upon this post about an Ikea hack involving a set of shelves and a custom bevelled walnut counter top. I loved it, but I made the grumbly face I usually make when I see something that looks like it will involve power tools and pick up trucks carrying slabs of wood and all those things I just don’t have here in Ireland.

Those exact things that I’d have if I lived within an hour’s drive of my parents’ barn. Big saws and clamps and drills.

I grumble because my ideas are bigger than my power tool supply here in Dublin.

But here’s the twist. That Ikea hack? Rachel and her husband don’t have those tools either. They just happen to live near the KnowHow Shop. The KnowHow Shop is a brilliant idea brewed up by three architecture graduates – a communal workspace and design center in California where you can buy day passes to use big power tools to make cool, big stuff.

{Image from a New York Times T Design Magazine article here.} 

I want a KnowHow Shop in Dublin. It would solve a whole bunch of my envious DIY grumbling.