Ten Dollar Ledges
My husband made these for our God son's 1st birthday gift. He loves them so much. We can't wait to make these for our daughter's nursery as well. These are so easy & beautiful to make.
My husband made these for our God son's 1st birthday gift. He loves them so much. We can't wait to make these for our daughter's nursery as well. These are so easy & beautiful to make.
I started my son's bedroom set back at the beginning of January and have finally finished! I began by building the matching dresser (http://ana-white.com/2014/02/rustic-dresser-and-bedroom-set) and then started the bed only a week ago. The night table was taken from http://ana-white.com/2011/06/mini-farmhouse-bedside-table-0 - I had built it over the summer, but I couldn't get my pocket holes on the inside of the table because my drill wouldn't fit, so I wasn't going to use it.. until I realized it was the perfect little bedside table for a two year old who might destroy it anyways!
Back to the bed... I just had this vision of what I wanted my son's room to look like after seeing the rustic rolling dresser plan, and I stumbled on the Emme Twin bed plan. It was kind of perfect, but I didn't like the whole "window" look on the headboard. I still may add a divider on the foot board, but haven't decided yet. Regardless, so I envisioned something else with the same concept of the Emme twin bed. Building it exactly the same way without the dividers, I ordered the clearance shams from pottery barn that matched his new quilt and bought another piece of half inch plywood. I cut it in half and left about a quarter inch on each side of each piece of plywood to accommodate the fabric in between the 2 by 4s. I added one inch of foam and a couple layers of batting, matched up the two shams side by side, folded them each around the batting and foam, and stapled them. They fit perfectly into the headboard with some 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 inch screws (There is a gap from the fabric on the back, so your screw needs to account for that. You could put like a 1x4 onto each panel to screw through, but I placed the back plywoood attached to the 2x4s too far in, so it would have made the panels "float" and I wanted the fabric of the panels flush to the back plywood) holding them to the back plywood attached to the 2x4s. I wanted the padding on the back of the headboard because I always hear my son slam his head into the wall when he's sleeping and i just wanted to make sure he wasn't hitting the dividers that were on the EMME twin bed.
The bed was so easy to build, stain and finish. It turned out exactly how I had envisioned it. I had to lower the side rail 2x4s because I bought a ten inch memory foam mattress (You can see the foam mattress and pillow rising in the picture!) and didn't want it coming above the headboard, but now I don't think I'll need a guard rail since he is so close to the floor! The 2x4s sit 5.5 inches up from the bottom of each leg. I also added quite a bit of length to the foot board legs because I wanted the footboard to come above the mattress. I wish I had realized that there was much nicer plywood at Lowes, but when I asked, they told me "this is all of the plywood we have" and I got stuck with the ugly stuff.. I will fix the footboard with some nicer looking plywood, but it's good enough for now!
I made this little end table for my daughter-in-law to accompany the porch bench I made for her about 2 years ago. It's a simple little table but it does have one unique feature. My son and daughter-in-law cut down a large old cedar tree from in front of their house and gave me the wood. I thought it might be nice to build something for them from the tree so aI milled several pieces of the tree and let them dry in my shed for about one year. It took a while to run the wood through the planner to get it just right. I used the wood for the table top and the wood grain looks just beautiful. In fact, I'm just now leaving to their house on Bainbridge Island to give them the table. I know she'll love it!
We had just moved into our new house and were using an end table for our TV stand I just didn't like it. I found this and modified it so it's shorter and fits in our room better. I also opted to not put doors on it and use it to display items instead. This was a relatively easy build and I'm learning new things with every build I make. It took about 2 days to complete not including filling holes/paint/stain. I love it, it looks so great in our room and I am planning on building end tables to match as well as replacing our buffet with movies in it to match also. Thanks for the easy-to-follow plans!
We have an Airbnb at a nearby lake. We built the large and kids picnic tables so our guests can enjoy the outdoors!!
Elaine Freitas
This was the second (larger) type project my husband has completed and I got to help this time! We made this for the loving ladies in our lives for Mother's Day. This one is his mom's and we didn't finish it because we don't know if she'll want to stain or just paint it. It was relatively easy!
My wife has always wanted a king sized bed. While my hobbyist woodworking skills are not (yet) to the point where I can create the mahogany sleigh bed she has always dreamed of, I think she has enjoyed the farmhouse bed that I built for her X-mas present. We bought a new gel mattress for the bed, which sits on a few sheets of plywood over a frame of 2x4s. While we have no current plans to move anytime soon, using some of the advice of commenters/posters, I constructed our bed and frame with bed rail brackets and hanger joists that will allow us the option to disassemble/reassemble it in the future.
Sat, 04/22/2017 - 13:35
What did you ue to connect the bed rails to the Headboard and Foorboard.
I am at a loss.
Thu, 04/27/2017 - 18:57
Janie, I ended up buying some bed rail hardware with the idea that I might someday disassemble the bed: http://www.rockler.com/surface-mounted-keyhole-bed-rail-brackets
if you want to do it cheaper, joist hangers should work.
Loved making this dresser, and it works awesome in my baby girl's room.
My wife has been asking me to build her a pantry since we bought our house last year and I finally got around to doing it. I used the Barn Door Entertainment center plans as inspiration but Instead of using the 1x12x8ft lumber suggested I used 1x6x8ft boards connected with pocket holes to save on costs. The Barn door hardware is the SMARTSTANDARD 8ft heavy duty (double door) which I purchased on Amazon for 73$.
Awesome and easy build! Thank you!
I'm SUPREMELY impressed with how well these came out. And just to beat the dead horse.... paint your stuff before you put it together. I didn't and it is a MAJOR pain painting between the slats, man. Major. I'm a little impatient. And impulsive.
Thu, 05/17/2012 - 04:59
Ana, thank you so much for the plans, this site, everything. You're an incredible part of this universe.
Mon, 04/01/2013 - 19:13
did you install the legs on the inside of the table top? from the pictures it looks like you did, I like the way it looks and how you finished the top with stain the rest with paint.
This was my first "build" and was a lot of fun. Very quick and very easy. I'm so happy with how cute it turned out!
Biult this for my outdoor patio. Got the cushions from Lowes.ca for about $80 each.
I only work with reclaimed/junk wood and this has literally been the most rewarding thing I've ever done. I absolutely love these projects! can't thank you enough for sharing plans- and for free! (I also made a chair but it won't let me upload a pic.)
I finished this a while back for my granddaughter. I modified the side rails so it could be disassembled and reassembled in her bedroom.
My husband made this from ordinary pine, modifying it slightly. Eventually he will add doors to the middle. It was spray stained with Minwax polyshades. He took a couple of months on it cause he got busy doing other things but finally finished it!
I had fun with this project. I needed a long and narrow desk for my son's room, and this was perfect. It was sooo easy. I used countersink drill bit and filled in with wood filler. I sanded to smooth it out and make soft edges. I stained first with a black cherry stain, then spread teal paint around (was inspired by a lot of rustic wood and teal pieces that I saw at homegoods), then coated it with kona miniwax stain to darken it up. I put a clear polyurethane finish on it to protect it. Super easy and I love it. Got all of my wood for under $30.
I used Anna's shelving plans from this video https://youtu.be/cTxRBckenI4 and it was super easy. I also made a cut out for the mini freezer on the far end and also cut the ends closest to the garage door track at a 45 degree. The shelves are 24 inches and the run is 16' long. The cost was right at $100. We are building more of the same shelving in the garage very soon.
Thanks Anna for the design!
Ron from Houston
Fri, 06/03/2016 - 08:59
You are welcome, thanks for using my plans! Looks great!
Dog feeding station with storage. Have a container of dog food underneath. Whipped up with some scraps while quarantined today.
Built in 5ft x 5ft pantry using pine panels as they were available in the widths we needed. Inspired by your pantry build video, thank you.
Rob Worsnop
My son's kindergarten teacher had a table top puppet theater on her "wish list" from an online store - but it cost $70 and I knew there's no way i could buy that. But just one look at it made me realize I could build my own. My son and I built it in just a couple hours and then took some extra time for sanding and spray painting. I had all the kids in the class sign their names on the sides and I used chalk board paint on the top sign so the kids can write their own show title or time, etc. There's a place to keep the chalk in the back. We presented this gift to my son's teacher at the end of Teacher Appreciation week, and it was a huge hit!