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I made the kitchen from (reclaimed=free) veneered mdf. I modified the size to fit out our needs. My kids are 12,9,6,4. I am thrilled with how it turned out. My dimensions are as follows. fridge 18x18x48, stove and sink 18x18x31. I stained it barn red ($5 oops stain) and painted the fronts with white satin. I bought the faucet from our local re-store($5). The sink is a crock from goodwill ($4). I used european hinges to attach the fridge doors ($11). The hardware I found at target on clearance($13). Plexiglass was ($4)

I'm not sure that anyone would want to build this table, but I attached my plans made in PowerPoint here.

We have a 600 square foot apartment. We enter through our kitchen, so we wanted a dining table that did not take up much space visually or physically. The Squared2 Dining Chairs inspired the creation of our Squared2 Dining Table. We appreciate having it.

To cut down on cost, we purchased 1/8" plexiglass and cut to fit our table top.

My cousin and I fell in love with the farmhouse table so, when we discovered some old barn wood at my dad's house, we knew we had to build that table using the barnwood for the top.  I love each and every imperfection in the barn wood.  This was a fun project and I look forward to building another of Ana's plans.

First furniture project.  Storage table for my daughter and her husband.

Shopping for bedroom furniture, my spouse found a bed that was way more than we wanted to spend. After finding this site, and a bit of convincing he finally agreed to try building this. Now he wants to build everything! We now have a long "to do" list of plans we want to try.

Farmhouse table made from 100 year old wood. The wood was taken from a porch at my great grandmother's house in Vernon Parish, Louisiana.

We reworked the plans for the pottery barn inspired bed into a toddler sized version. Arms were added near the head to prevent our child falling out in the first year. They ended up being something of a hazard in those early days, as our child kept hitting her head. If we were to recreate it, we would make the arms go up higher or without the finished top. The bed also was not lifted off the ground in as great of a proportion to the original.

The pine is left untreated and unfinished. The only glue used was homemade milk glue.

Made a 4 foot version of the farmhouse bench. I also used 4x4s for the legs instead of 2x4s. They work great, just makes the bench a little heavy. 

Our first project

So I needed a bigger entry way table for our new house and this one fit my style and I love it! Mine is only 5.5' long so I did have to do some remeasuring. If you also need yours to be 5.5' my measurements were 5.5' for the top 2x6 pieces then the the two bottom shelves are 55" and the 12 (6 for front 6 for back) 2x2 pieces are 26". All of the other measurements stayed the same. Also I already had everything else besides wood so just the wood cost me $75.

I started this project with the intention of building the octagon table.  The person I was building it for changed their mind and asked for round instead.  With the table top now being round I did not think that the supports underneath the table fit with the design so I used the leftover scraps from cutting the round top to make the altered supports you see in my photos.  Turned out pretty good I think and the recipient is in love with the design.  Thanks for the original plans Ana and good luck to everyone else building this table!

One for each daughter for thier bathroom. I did use a wider board on top for larger standing surface and stability. 

My husband wasn't home this week, so I had to create something.. He's just lucky that I didn't give the kitchen a makeover! ;]

I modified and improvised with what I had lying around... I used a 1x4 for the bottom because I didn't have enough 1x2 scraps left, but then I decided to put the lettering on it because I thought it looked too plain. I like how it turned out!! :]

We built the Farmhouse queen bed and fancy X desk for our bedroom. It was relatively easy and looks so great! The bed is made of pine and cedar. (It is really really hard to find pine 4x4 posts that aren't pressure treated around here.) We used pine for the desk. Paint color on the bed and base of the desk is Behr "Polar bear" with a coffee stain distress. The desk top is Benjamin Moore "Dash of pepper." The bed cost about $175 to build and the desk cost $30. (We used a lot of scraps for the desk.)

I used Ana's plans and Hillary's suggestions to build this extra large buffet.  It took probably 25-30 hours if you consider the extra trips to Home Depot and Lowe's because I didn't yet have the proper tools.  I used Annie Sloan's French Linen as my base coat, Old White as my dry brush coat, Annie Sloan Clear Wax throughout and Dark Wax in the crevices.  This was my first big league build, so I had to recruit a skilled neighbor for assistance with the drawers and doors.  My two recommendations would be to ensure the piece is square at every step, and to cut the wood as you go.  Don't make all the cuts at once because there will be adjustments.

I made this longer using two 8’ 1x4 pine boards and added a center brace inside. I added a pack of simple hinges to the top so that the face could flip up and we could access the inside. I also routed the face and back.

I made matching step stools for my kids.