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I built this desk so my son would have a place for his old school tv and to do his homework! It was super easy and I love how the finish came out! His room is a huge work in progress but this is the first step:)

Modified the arm rest and the back to my liking. 

This one took a while in between taken care of the baby and working full time this one took me prolly 2 weekends or longer to do if I didn't have to do all that stuff lol. I had this horrible wiring rack if you can see that went top to bottom and these stupid sliding doors that I really hate bc with the dresser there it's like I can't get in so I just took them off I really want to put in a bifold dorr there but can't so I prolly will hang bead's instead. Kadence really enjoyed picking out the colors and helping me paint. I started off on debating for awhile what I was going to paint what color. I was gonna paint it all pink and do a design of something in green but I think this turned out pretty nicley and really compliment's there purple room. Yay I saved my office from going to the basement!!! Kadence is really happy to get to share her bedroom and I am really happy to be able to get into the closet and actually want to use it so hopefully the room will stay clean and I can get ride of some furniture and get rid of the piles of clothes in my living room lol. I also am glad she can put her own clothes away bc it's just her size. I don't think I am done yet with it tho. I want to put some things on to hang her day hat's on and some ledges towards the out side I think to hold her books. This one cost a little bit more for everything almost about 200 prolly with all the extra's we got for it and the expensive pine. It also took longer bc I had to tear out the old rack and mudd the hole's and tear out the carpet in the closet so I could see the old wood floor and place this in correctly needed to get rid of the carpet eventually any ways. The painting took awhile also of course because I had to prime then paint if I would have used one color it prolly wouldn't have taken that long.

We're adding our chickens this weekend!

Made the standard full farmhouse bed with storage, but did a couple modifications. 1) Didn’t use drawers, but wanted closed, not open cubbies. I made the drawer fronts and then attached with full overlay hinges and magnetic catches do they open from top down like a horizontal cabinet. 2) built the slats as two, one piece slat frames which sit on the cleat so that they can easily be removed for the extra long term storage between the cubby boxes. Just lift mattress and the two pieces of slats and lots more space. 

Inspired by Ana and driven by a desperate desire to nest, I made this table in my first-trimester. We live at this table. It's where we eat, play, and craft. On special occasions we stand on top of it, and sometimes we even eat under it. We love the way it looks in our mid-century ranch house with modern chairs. Thank you, Ana!

This weeks project was a slat tool wall to organize all my most used hand tools. I wanted a way to have everything in reach and also easy to organize and keep track of. This is John Heisz original design and I decided to build one for my shop. Here is a link to his site with a full tutorial including measurements- http://www.ibuildit.ca/Workshop%20Projects/tool-board-1.html. 

I also have a couple videos of my process here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNz_a_vKAqY

and here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYQldf_vHlE

I loved this from Ana's site so much we tacked one. Please note I glued, screwed and dowel ed the holes. I hate kreg jigs. We also made ours taller to add an extra shelf.

This was my first big furniture piece that I've built. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I used 5/4 poplar for the tops instead of the 2x10s for the table and 2x6s for the benches that the plans called for. Finished the tops with Minwax Early American stain then 3 coats of satin oil based polly. Finished the bottoms with water based Minwax tinted River Stone then coated with water based polly. 

I added crown molding to the bottom of my ten dollar ledges to add a little fancier look.

Had to build something to go with our brand new OLED TV. Combined Ana's 'Grandy Sliding Door Console' with a modified version of these modern barn door plans found at https://howdoesshe.com/build-a-fixer-upper-style-modern-barn-door/ from @angelarosehome to make the finished product shown here. My wife loves it (the pup doesn't mind it either)! 

This is the nightly sleeper for our 6yo (queen) and 4yo (twin) boys, but we have in-laws who visit from out of town frequently and we also wanted a place to allow them to be comfortable as couples.

To accomodate adult headroom on the queen, I raised the entire loft 7" (72" high) and to fit the queen beneath, I had to lengthen the loft rails by 9" (84" long). To fill the resulting gap, I just used some 39" scraps of 2x4 and 2x6 overlapped to create a 4x10 landing which actually ended up a cool addition since it gives the kids a spot lower than the mattress to make the transition from the ladder to the mattress. It also has given us adults a spot to sit off the mattress while comforting them to sleep when needed, so we don't end up waking them when we leave.

I based the height of the queen legs (made four of them) off the size of a standard storage tote, which was ~13". We can fit 12-16 totes of clothes or other random storage under the bed as a result. The queen frame was just a simple 64"x84" rectangle out of 2x6s with 7 2x4s used as crossbeams to hold the mattress.

Note on the mattresses - these 8" memory foam mattresses are just as comfortable as our expensive name brand king mattress, but MUCH cheaper!

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-8-inch-Memory-Foam-Mattress-Multiple-Sizes/47826185

Despite raising the loft, I kept the height of the stair platform the same, but just added a second 'ladder' rung to get up to the loft (refer back to the 4x10 landing spot on the loft). To keep with the using available storage space theme, instead of attaching the stairs permanently, I used 1"x4" hinges to that we could swing the stairs up and put 4 more storage totes under there. (However, we quickly found that the kids liked that area as a 'fort', so we've left it open for their use.)

In the picture, you'll note there are four treads/steps on the stairs because I thought to myself "little feet, little steps" would be better. I soon learned that the littles are more than capable of using adult sized steps while adults nearly killed themselves coming down the little feet, little steps. As such, I ended up removing one of the middle steps and moving the new singular middle to a spot between the other two. Much better, stay with 3 steps.

While the queen can stand alone, I still attached it to the 'legs' of the loft so that our rambunctious boys didn't 'sweep the leg' and bring the whole thing down on themselves while under it.

I used the narrow farm house table as my starting point. I added two shelves. I used select grade Pine for this project for all except the 1x12 that was used for the shelves. I didn't want to spend 30 bucks for the select grade 1x12 for the shelves, so I used whitewood for that. I used pocket holes to join the 4 1x4s that makes up the top. I sanded the joints to try to give the appearance that it is a single boards. Can't tell unless you really look close. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. Biggest problem I had with this project was my 10 year old cordless drill. Batteries would only hold a charge for 4 or 5 pocket holes, so this project took me much longer then it should have. That's okay, I used the time waiting on the drill to charge to sand, and measure. That problem has been corrected with the Black Friday sale at Lowes. My next project is a desk for my daughter, I designed it myself, but would never have attempted something like this without this great website!!!