Piper's Dining
This was just the right table design for our history home built in 1880! Love the plans and easy to build!
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This was just the right table design for our history home built in 1880! Love the plans and easy to build!
My son is growing up to be a big boy and wanted a fancy new office like I have at home so now he has a big boy desk and some storage for him as he gets older! Used some inspiration from a few other plans from AnaWhite and have started branching out a bit! The latest does not show the finished painted cabinet doors and handles but overall it looks great, and is ALREADY filled with toys!!
Wed, 03/17/2021 - 05:41
Thank you! Your website has given me a lot of great ideas and tutorials that i've used to learn some of this stuff!
We needed a new coffee table in the family room, one that went with the ever changing decor. One of my neighbors threw out a rather nice, but older wooden framed window that they had been holding onto for who knows how long. My wife actually grabbed it out of the garbage with both the kids sitting in the car while she loaded it into her SUV in dress clothes.
Anyway, I broke down the window into two sections and used one of the sections to build this table. The area around the window is made out of 2x4 and the table skirt is 1x4. I bought the turned legs from www.osbornewood.com (colonial coffee table leg). This project was made a lot easier by using my kreg jig to attach the skirt to the table legs as well as the top to the skirt. Knowing that I would have two young kids playing around and setting things on the table I placed the glass panes with plexi that I bought from Lowes. This will be safer as well as more durable in the future.
My husband and I built this together. It was a fun project!
cross between a kitchen island and the x frame console table. LOL
Cross breeding furniture, gotta love it! :0)
Thu, 08/04/2016 - 13:03
how do I get the plans for this? I'm ready to get started already
Tue, 08/20/2019 - 00:05
I love this, a mix of some of our favorite plans! I'd love to do a plan like this!
Spent forever building this modified version because I couldn't figure out what kind of drawer faces I wanted. Finished with General Finishes gel stain and Minwax Paste Finishing wax.
This bed is gorgeous and the plans are perfectly laid out for even a beginner to use. We were making a full bedframe, so we used the exact measurements given in the cut list and it fit the mattress just right. We made the accompanying headboard with a few changes. We were using pine and wanted the headboard casing to match, so we just used 1x4's and routed the edge with an ogee bit we had on hand. We also wanted the platform just a tad bit higher and made the legs 10 inches instead of 7. We also ended up making the platform slats out of 1x4's instead of 1x3's as they were cheaper.
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I made this in a weekend to add seating to our back patio area -- I AM IN LOVE WITH IT!
The whole family hangs out here, it has given us a great place to spend outdoors during lockdown.
I picked up the cushions on craigslist, so the cost of the entire project was kept super low.
I will be staining and sealing it soon, I am so happy with how it turned out! Thanks Ana :D
We needed a guest bed for our guest bedroom. So I built the storage areas under the bed out of plywood and boxed them up. The bed would probably look better with a headboard, but we decided to just do that curtain style headboard.
I had seen different beds similar to this, and I just had those in mind when I started. I didn't follow any specific plan except for what I had in my head.
It was painted with an oil-base white paint.
I love this plan. I made this for my toddler and he loves it! My daughter is too small to climb on but she's always trying. She loves it too.
Gabled Greenhouse completed with upcycled tin roofing. Extended the greenhouse to a 20' long structure.
Thu, 04/01/2021 - 16:59
Love this, excellent use of the tin, the outside beds are a great addition!
I made this dresser for my sister's nursery. The room is fairly small, so she wanted a changing table on top of the dresser to save space. We also added a third row of drawers.
Sun, 11/23/2014 - 05:35
I like how you modified the plans to make it have two more drawers. I'm looking forward to doing this very soon for my twin daughters. I was just wondering how the dimensions on the right and left sides were changed? Also, does this seems to carry the extra weight of the drawers OK?
Really liked Ana's 20 second tidy up table, and wanted to try to have something like this for my son. Then saw the activity table at RH and tried to replicate it down to the exact same finish. Made small changes here and there such as adding 4 individual drawers, different wood dimensions, etc. He loves it and uses it lots for his Thomas the Train Set. Thank you again Ana.
Sat, 01/24/2015 - 22:47
I love the finish you do on this table. Looks great. I wish you could share the exact names of those stains :(
In reply to The finish by timberandsoul
Fri, 02/06/2015 - 09:08
just remembered!
it was minwax water based slate, and water based american walnut.
In reply to Nice Work! by Ana White Admin
Fri, 02/06/2015 - 09:10
Thank you Ana White Admin.
My husband and I built beds for our daughters' american girl dolls for Christmas. It was the first time we'd ever built anything and we learned a lot. So fun!
I used reclaimed fence wood instead of plywood. Just put together three planks to make the side/top/bottom pieces. I adjusted the size a bit since I had limited space for it to fit into. This was my first ever furniture project and my first use of my new kreg jig.
Love, love, love our king bed I build based on an adaptation of Ana's design. I did the slats a little different, and used 1"x 2"'s and cut them in order to make a slot for the slat. i also used non-mortise bed rail fasteners (from Amazon) so the bed could be taken apart easily. This was my first wood working project and now I am hooked! I am also a quilter and made the quilt for it too! I did it on a long weekend by myself. I was probably a bit slower than most folks considering it was my first woodworking project, so I was constantly looking up how to do things on Youtube.
I slightly modified the project to suit my wife's request. One key note: Make sure the main frame pieces mirror each other. I missed that and had two identical pieces outlined in Step 1, versus where the inside aprons actually face each other to allow for the top and bottom rails to be secured to the frame.
Thompson's Clear stain protects the wood; one coat after cutting the pieces and a second one for good measure after assembly.
Made this as an entry table did the drawers out instead of in like the plan. Love how it turned out!
My wife and I saw a large table and chairs at a local antique store priced at $1000...
It was nice and probably worth what they were asking, but after a failed attempt to negotiate the price down to a more reasonable number, I decided to build a table. I was in the thinking stage when it hit. I've been wanting to tear down this random privacy fence in the back yard ever since we moved in a few years ago and so...... a table was born from an old fence..
You cant tell in the pictures but this table seats 12 comfortably. ( 4 on each side and 2 on each end). it is 7' by 4'
Mon, 02/02/2015 - 04:49
4x4 fence post legs notched to hold 2x4 frame topped with a 3/4 in plywood. ( necessary since many boards were cupped or bowed, needed to have something to glue to.)
fence boards werent long enough for length of table so they were staggered as pictured. I had to do alot of planing and run all the fence planks though a table saw to square them as much as I could. ( also not as necessary if you buy wood from your local hardware store.)
The frame has 3 cross braces, and corner braces all the way around. plywood screwed to bracing/frame
planks laid out on plywood and glued plus brad nailed to hold them while glue dried.
routered edges of table top and started sanding, LOts of sanding , belt sanding with 80 grit then orbital sander stepping up to eventual 400 grit. I then cut skirts for the top of the legs 3 and 1/2 in skirts to cover screw holes. and a 1 in skirt to cover the rough edge of the plywood, ( both plywood and table top have a 2 in and 3in overhang respectively. Once everything was sanded to suit. I torched it and hit it with poly..
Mon, 02/02/2015 - 11:07
Love that is was repurposed from an old fence and the finish is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Tue, 02/03/2015 - 08:34
This table is absolutely beautiful!! I am thinking of doing something similar but on a slightly smaller scale. Would you be able to post your plans? I'd love to see the brace work on the bottom/sides of the piece.
Also, how difficult was it to work the blowtorch? Any tips on what I should do (or not do) when trying it out on my own?
Thanks for the post!
Tue, 02/03/2015 - 15:21
Your project came out great! The wood grain is so prominent. My guess is that torching accentuates the wood grain so that it stands out more. Excellent stuff.
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 21:10
just try torching on a test piece first, it was suprisingly easy to do.
Plans...... I didn't make any. ( booo ) I used a 2x4 frame and 45 degree corner braces with 3 cross members. since most of the wood was extremely weathered, there was a lot of planing and sanding to do. Even then I put down a piece of plywood as an underlay for the planks to glue to. I punched the planks down with brad nails to allow the glue to dry because the planks took some effort to keep them flat. I have since built a matching coffee table 4' by 4' with yellow pine from the lumber yard, Not nearly as much work to put together since all the boards were reasonable straight/flat.
Great project with super clear instructions! Love the look of the sawhorse legs and had just completed a live edge table top, so merged the two for this coffee table.