Step 1: Getting the cabinets clean and prepped is the most important part of a DIY kitchen remodel. After that, it’s just a matter of adding the right kind of details.

Step 2: If your cupboards were built before 1978, have a professional test for lead-based paint, since chipping it can release harmful levels of the metal into your house.

Step 3: Liberally sand off blemishes with a power sander, then wipe the cabinets down with mineral spirits. Wipe them again after they’ve dried. Sand down the divider between the doors and drawers and around any hinges, which have probably deteriorated with age.

Step 4: With a strong cleaner like Simple Green, scrub down the inside of the cupboards and the bottom of their drawers.

Step 5: Leave them to dry, then check all the screw holes. If they’re full of wood filler, fill in with a filler of your choice (try Elmer’s).

Step 6: With an angled paintbrush and a mix of 1/3 latex paint tinted to match the cabinets (try Minwax stain in “Early American”), and 2/3 Zinsser SealCoat, paint any spots that were covered by drawers or doors, as well as the inside of any cupboards where there are gaps between shelving. Let dry.

Step 7: Tighten the screws for the doors and drawers with a screwdriver. (Photo 7) If your hinges have all corroded, restain them with Zinsser B-I-N or equivalent.

Step 8: Using finishing nails, attach a set of old curtain rods to the sides of each kitchen cabinet. I bought a pair at Goodwill for $1.50 and cut them down with a hacksaw. Use more nails to hang the old drapes on the rods. (Photos 8–11)

Step 9: Apply a coat of primer to all your cut curtain rods, let dry, and then paint them whatever color you want. I chose matte metallic silver.

Step 10: Crank open old shutters and cut them in pieces. Then apply an even coat of matte metallic silver spray paint to slightly distress the edges. Use finishing nails to hang the shutter panels over the window above the sink. (Photo 12)

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Step 1: Test for suitability by letting your tarantula crawl around on one of the hands in a pair of white cotton gloves. This will give it some protection from your hands and any chemicals used to clean its container, should you approach it directly.

Step 2: Move your hand so that the tarantula can enter the glove. If it climbs all or most of the way inside the glove, that is a good sign that it may be ready to change homes.

Step 3: Cover the floor of a new container with 1 to 2 in of soil. Then add a shallow layer of peat moss and crushed coconut shell, ideally pre-moistened before adding to this layer.

Step 4: Make a hole in the soil, enclosing the tarantula with your index finger and thumb. Let it work its way out of the soil on its own with the help of its sense of touch, if needed.

Step 5: Drop the tarantula in and carefully cover it with soil. Then replace the new container’s lid and tape it securely to keep the tarantula inside.

Step 6: Feed it. Tarantulas prefer live insects and can be rescued from their cannibalistic ways (and from being prey) by breeding crickets as food for them.

Step 7: A week after its move, it may shed its exuviae (old exoskeleton). This could be a sign that things are going well.

Step 8: After two or three weeks, try blowing gently on its abdomen with nothing in front of you. You are trying to make it nervous so that it will be prepared to run away if necessary. Repeat every few days until it runs. Remove your finger to see if it comes back.

Step 9: Once its running has improved, watch it from a distance to see if it can run away. It might near a leaf with a white plant tag hanging on it. If so, remove your finger and see if it goes to the spot and stays there where you can pet it.

Step 10: When you are able to touch it from a distance, move your hand around the leaf. Try to make it nervous, perhaps by doing quick lunges toward the tarantula before backing away.

Step 1: Season your pork chop. This may seem counterintuitive, but many people I know find that a pork chop tastes best when it’s not covered, completely, in some sort of salt-and-pepper rub. Maybe it has something to do with the bone—maybe you want it to season the bone, too. Either way, I find that an even dusting of salt and pepper is the most flavorful starting off point for the cooked chop.

Step 2: Preheat your oven. Set a cast-iron pan on medium heat. Enough to get it legitimately hot, but still not so hot that the olive oil you’re about to add will smoke. While you wait for that to happen, pat the sides of your pork chop dry. (This helps to achieve a good sear.)

Step 3: Add the olive oil and pork chop. Add just enough to coat, and then add the pork chop. No crowding—you want an oven-to-cooking surface ratio that works out to at least one square inch of cooking surface per ounce of meat.

Step 4: Cook the pork chop, oil side down. Don’t move it! I know that’s how you’re used to doing it at home, but it’s actually pretty important that you don’t turn the chop until the bottom half is done. This will probably take 3 to 4 minutes.

Step 5: Flip the pork chop. When it’s brown and crusty on the bottom, it’s time to flip. Flip the chop and brown for another 3 to 4 minutes.

Step 6: Get a pan out of the oven. Then, crack a whole bunch of eggs in it—just drop them in from about a foot above the pan.

Step 7: Cook the eggs. Cook the eggs as you like ’em, but I personally think this one just needs to cook until the whites are no longer translucent (about 3 minutes), then place them on top of the cooked pork chop and toss on cooked broccoli. This is now an omelette-style situation.

Step 8: Glaze with the pan sauce. The little bits that browned in the pan immediately after you seared the pork chop? Combine that stuff with a bit of apple cider vinegar, fresh herbs, and maybe some ketchup to add a little color.

Step 9: Eat the pork chops and broccoli and the eggs. The broccoli gets cooked by the residual heat from the pork chop, and the concoction will glaze everything to perfection.

Step 10: Repeat. This exact dish hasn’t been replicated at home more than twice, but it could definitely be made over and over again. You could even pair it with pasta or potatoes if you felt so inclined. And really, who doesn’t?