Truck Shelf or Desk Organizer
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very easy
My husband and I just recently moved to Savannah from Annapolis.
I got my hands on some beautiful wood from an old house in Savannah. The console table for the bedroom came to mind immediately. Great project, thank you for the plans, Ana!
This was quite the project- took us several weekends to finish (we don't have a garage or really any good working area- we rent. Oh and we also have a toddler). We assembled the table in the living room, stained it on our front sidewalk, did a couple coats of poly in the backyard, and finished the last coat of poly in the dining room! (we know how heavy this table is, that's for sure! We modified the original farmhouse table dimensions so that this table would fit in our oh-so-tiny dining room. As you can tell, we also decided to build a bench to go with it. We are extremely pleased with the results!
A few weeks ago my wife said she needs a footstool for our rocking chair while she rocks the baby to sleep. Being a sneaky husband, I quickly began planning to build her one because I knew I wasn't going to be able to find anything commercially sold that matched our baby room colors. A week later I have 2 Adirondack chairs, a table, a bunch of tools I didn't have before, and no footstool.... So about the chairs...The plans were super easy and well thought out. I learned a few things about cutting angles, which if you look closely you can see the seat portion does not extend to the front legs. Instead of wasting more wood, I simply adapted the plans. This makes the backs of the chairs sit upright more, but I actually like it because I have a bad back. We sanded it with 150 grit sand paper, and should have done a second sanding with a finer paper, but we didn't. I primed the wood with a basic multi purpose primer and then painted with BEHR outdoor white semi-gloss. I wanted to seal it with a poly, but Home Depot did not recommend sealing with with Poly, and I could not find a Poly in Home Depot that did not warn AGAINST using it on painted surfaces. Oh, and make sure you wear eye protection! Dust in the eyes is brutal. Fortunately I have a kind wife who washed them out for me. :) Now I have a nice pair of clear glasses.
In reply to Love it! by Ana White Admin
Fri, 06/14/2013 - 22:03
We just finished a modified version of the sturdy workbench. Footstool is next I suppose :)
Great project plans from Ana and of course, LadyGoats. Thank You!
Wood: Pine (similar cut list to what was in the plans)
Time to complete: Approx 4 hours.
Joints: 3/4 inch pocket holes with 1 1/4 inch pocket hole screws and glue. Love my Kreg Jig.
Stain: Varathane Espresso color, two applications.
Fun morning project! This table/shelf can be used for so many things. Once the two pieces are secured together it is very solid. The bottom was made from Ana's x book caddy plan and the shelf was modified from LadyGoats booksellers plan.
Hope you all like it!
Don
Sun, 05/17/2015 - 08:57
This turned out great!!! Love the idea to use it as a wine rack! xoxo
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My husband built your Rustic bathroom vanities into 3 drawer dressers to hide our children's toys on each side of the fireplace. They turned out amazing!!!
My first project, I've never done any kind of wood working at all. I made and noticed several mistakes however, I'm still very pleased with how it turned out. I learned from all my mistakes and now know the best ways to avoid them in the future. Super excited to begin my next project!
Sat, 11/20/2021 - 09:23
It looks great and even better, its functional! Thanks for sharing:)
I had been holding onto some Martha Stewart Alphabet Cards since my, now 3 year old, son was a baby. Some of them had been drawn on : ) so I couldn't hang up the alphabet, but I got creative with spelling some words out instead. I am so thankful for Anna's plans, I finally found a way to hang these without buying a lot of picture frames! My son loves them, and hangs his paintings and photos often.
As a beginner I found this very easy to build. I took my time to make sure everything was measured and cut just right. I substituted longer screws for the brackets. The ones that came with the brackets seemed a little short. There's a trick to getting the screws in the brackets. The angled bar swings back to make it easy to attach the screws. Very happy with the finished product.
Wed, 05/20/2015 - 08:43
I went over a year without a miter saw stand/cart. Looking back it now that I have one, I kick myself for not getting one sooner. I have limited space for storage so I went with a store bought so that I can fold it up when not in use, but I really wish I had something that's always set up like yours. I also like the extensions that can fold down when not in use. Good job!
My husband & I built this version of the Husky Farmhouse Table. We also built two benches & bought chairs to match the colors as closely as we could. We. LOVE. It! I found the legs on Etsy for a little cheaper than the place Ana reccomends in the plans. The milk paint didn't crackle as much as I wanted, but I think that was because I put the first coat on WAY too thin since I was afraid of running out. And I ended up doing 3 coats. We were able to sand the edges & some spots down a bit to get the effect we wanted though. Super excited to have Christmas dinner at this baby!
Love these planters! I made the large one first with the circular saw and struggled. The smaller one was super easy by using my miter saw with the 5 degree setting. Thanks , Ana. 😀
I have been looking for a new bed for our master bedroom for a long time. I just could not find one that actually fit ME.. the look and size. Then I found Ana's website, wow I feel in love with it as soon as I saw it.
So this was my first project. It's not perfect, but I LOVED how it turned out!! A few lessons learned....
1) I know common sense would tell you to get the straightest boards, which I thought I did. When I went to put them together, a few were bowed. I tried to put those at the bottom.
2) I did end up putting a brace vertically in the middle on the back with left over 1x6. It just added a little more support.
3) Since I'm a beginner, I didn't know better, but go easy on the wood filler, especially if you are going to use any kind of opaque finish.
4) The only other thing I can think of, is unless you have someone to help you out, build this close to where you plan on putting it. I am in the middle of a remodel, so was able to build this in my bedroom. This sucker is heavy and awkward for one person to move when it's finished!!!
5) I built this with my finish nailer (2" nails) and wood glue. (Light on the glue...it expands quite a bit!)
My first pocket hole project! Adjusted plans to make table 50 inches long.
My very first project. Was so easy thanks to Ana's instructions. Dark walnut gel stain and Fusion Seaside. Thank you so much Ana.
Wine buffet made from pine. Hope you guys like it.
I built this Auburn University themed platform bed for our son. It works perfectly for him, and he absolutely loves it. I added a custom "Tiger Eyes" wood logo, which makes this a one-of-a-kind bed.
The construction of the bed was straight-forward due to the great plans I found on this site. The finishing process actually took longer than the build!
I made a few minor tweaks to the plan, such as using a combination of dowels and wood screws on the frame joints, and using a router to put a 1/2" radius round-over edge on the platform boards, and a 5/32" Roman Ogee edge on the top plate of the headboard.
We used spray paint for the finishing process (Rust-Oleum Gloss Orange and Krylon Gloss Navy), followed with a few coats of Minwax Fast-Drying Polyurethane.
If you want to read more about the build process, you can check out our blog posting at: http://ourhomeourhands.com/auburn-university-platform-bed-ana-white-ins…
In reply to War Eagle! by cchandler
Sat, 06/29/2013 - 05:13
Thanks for looking. War Eagle!
As part of a redecorating project using reclaimed barn wood for our guest bedroom, we constructed this window frame to display some photos from one of our siblings of barns found in Iowa.
The dimensions are 44” X 33” with each photographic image being 11” x 16.5”.
Since the wood had so many bore holes, we used ¾” redwood under the visible fascia for added strength.
Cost - $75 / 4.5 hours to build.
http://ana-white.com/2009/12/plans-barnwood-frames-1-and-10-minutes.html
I needed a shed to get my outdoor and seldomly used equipment out of my gargage. But I needed the shed to be small so it doesn't take up too much space in the back yard and my HOA will not allow it to be taller than my fence. So I needed a small/short shed. I didn't use any plans, but it would probably have been quicker if I had. I did it with free time during a week, but could probably be all completed during a weekend. It was probably a few hundred total. I tried to reuse existing hardware/wood where possible. I'm a cheapskape. Here's my blogpost I did with additional pictures...
https://drowland.wordpress.com/2017/12/22/small-short-storage-shed/
You can see I also added a matching doghouse.
This past Christmas I built the dollhouse bookcase for my 3 year old daughter. I built mine out of plywood and made a few modifications. I routed dados for the shelves. I also added a pine face frame to cover the plywood edges. The back is beaded paneling. I painted it in the same princess pink colors that are in her bedroom. The final touch was adding a chimney and stuffing a Santa into it. She loved it! You can check out the full story on my blog http://www.homefront-dsr.blogspot.com/
Comments
JoanneS
Tue, 11/07/2017 - 17:28
Adorable!
This is totally adorable! I'm saving this one on my to-do list! :)
Aprilmariemason
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 06:56
Thank you!
Thank you!