This year, choose a nontraditional Christmas tree like this simple dowel Christmas tree. It's made from wood and offers a unique minimalist way to display your treasured ornaments. A dowel tree is one ...

Trying to eyeball the exact center of anything is a bad idea, especially when you’re working with dowels. This DIY dowel center finder is cheap and easy to make, and works like a charm. You can buy ...

Though they're nothing more than long, cylindrical pegs, wooden dowels can be used to make furniture and home accents of surprising complexity and disarming beauty. Sold at any hardware store—in ...