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.
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!
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!
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 son and I made this table this weekend in just a couple of hours with no problems. The directions were clear and easy to follow. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Hello Ana,
I wanted to let you know I really appreciate your website and the DIY plans. I am an avid woodworker, and I saw your farmhouse counter stool plans a couple of months ago in one of the emails y’all send out, and I thought I’d try out your plans. I made the frame of the chair out of pine and painted it with white milk paint. I made the seat out of Walnut. I honored your plans, but made the seat 1/2” bigger in length and width so as to overhang the frame 1/4” on all sides. I attached the seat with figure 8 fasteners, since I did not want to drill through the solid walnut and plug the screw holes. The plans were very straightforward, and I thought it was easy to build. You have such awesome ideas and plans - thanks for the inspiration!
I have attached a couple of pics.
Thanks again!
Ken Monson.
P.S. - I plan to try some of your other farmhouse plans in the next few months.
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.
2 X 4 Adirondack Chair Season
I'm so tired but i can't stop doing this chairs.
It's fun and gives me satisfaction when it's done
Here is just part of the orders that i got this week.
I'm taking a break, having coffee and resting a bit. Much more sets to do
Thanks Ana White for this beautiful chair plan
I LOVED this plan for a cart. I was looking for a cart to hold my heavy mixer and be able to roll in and out of my pantry. In addition to Ana's plans, I enlisted my 3 sons to hammer the wood to make it look rustic. Instead of aluminum angles, I used steel angles and I used a 36 inch height to accommodate more shelves. This is one SOLID cart. I absolutely love it! Thank you for the inspiration!
DIY Craft Desk.
I built this desk for my wife to give her more space to create her crafts. I meshed a couple designs that I had researched to give her a unique design. This project took me 1 week to complete by only working on it in the evenings but it could be done faster if you have more time available than I did!
Materials Needed:
2 - 6 foot 1x4" pine or Poplar wood
1- 8 foot 1x4 pine or Poplar wood
4- 2x2" pine wood 29" long
2- 1x2" pine wood 24" long
1- 12"x48" pine board (pre cut craft wood in Lowe's)
1- 24"x 72" pine board (pre cut craft wood in Lowe's)
Box of 1 1/2" wood screws
Wood glue
Wood stain and/or paint
8- 1" corner braces
1). Cut the 12"x48" craft board in half (2- 12"x24"boards.)This will be your shelves. Sand all of the wood prior to staining.
2.) Stain shelves and desk top. We used two coats of gray stain. Finish with one coat of Polyacrylic. Sand. Then one more coat of polyacrylic.
3.) Cut the 1"x2" trim to 2- 24" long strips.
4.) Attach the 2x2" posts to the 1x2" trim with wood glue and wood screws. You will end up with an upside down U shape. This trim piece will give added support for desk top. Do this twice and then Paint your posts.
5.) Mark where you want your shelves on the posts and screw in your corner braces to hold the shelves up. I placed the shelf inside the posts to give me 12" of width for baskets. Screw your braces onto your shelf and then attach to the posts. I recommend doing the bottom shelf first so it stabilizes the posts.
6.) Do the same thing with the top shelf. Mark where you want them and attach with corner braces.
7.) Moving on to the cross box base.... Build the 4 sides of the box first with the 1"x4" boards. This desk is 24" deep and 29" tall. Use wood glue and wood screws to assemble. I predrilled the holes then, placed glue on then screwed together.
8.) Make sure your top 1x4" is the full depth of the desk so the weight of the desk top is spread evenly on box.
9.) I used this guide for the interior cross pieces. http://sawdustgirl.com/x-leg-office-desk/#aa
10.) Paint your cross base.
11.) Attach desk top to bases with wood glue and wood screws and you are all set!
It was a fun project! - Jen