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Father and son project. Took less than half a day. Already have three offers to build for friends. Couldn't find 10' Cedar so had to use 8'  Using scrap pieces of cedar to make a coffee table. Great plans! 

With a child on the way, our house has been undergoing some changes. We were in need of a guest bedroom for family members and needing to store my wife's childhood twin bed with a hidaway twin underneath that was set up in the room that would become the nursery. We also needed to clean all the backpacking gear out of the closet in the nursery room to get ready for it to be taken over by all the baby stuff. I decided a "King-sized" bed out of the two twin mattresses would be a good solution as it would keep us from "storing" the two mattresses and meet the guest bed need. After I came across the plans for the fancy farmhouse bed, I knew if i just added some height to it, I could meet the storage need too! There's 14'' on my version of the fancy farmhouse bed between the carpet and the rails, plenty of room for medium sized plastic tubs to slide in and out (as seen with the "test tub" in the picture. Under my bed there are currently 9 tubs, two large suit cases, a PA speaker, Power speaker head, a large double sleeping bag, and a little room for more. I'll try to add pictures when I finish the room out with night stands (wine crates mounted to the wall), a bedskirt, lamps, and a headboard. Once I got the wood home, it was a fast build. The slowest part was painting

I built the Twin Storage Bed twice in a (very) full week of vacation. The project was big, but straightforward. The headboards are my own design, and are really strong with the addition of a 1x3 on the outsides to support. 

The kids were part of the building, so they were especially excited to sleep in them....over the week I was building them, we moved them out of cribs, onto the floor in crib mattresses, then to bigger mattresses, and finally to their big-kid beds.

What a great set of plans! The only glitch was that I cut the supports for the middle according to plan (15-1/2") and discovered when I assembled the beds they were a little too short for comfort. So I used them to add to the piece on the back of the long boxes, and used pre-fab particle board to make the cover, which probably works better with our foam mattresses anyway. I drilled a couple of holes in the smaller of the particle board sheets to make it easy to lift off and use the middle for storage of some items.

Thanks for the support to do my first big project!

My very first furniture build! Took me about 5 days, but as a beginner I found it very easy to follow the plans. I did buy a Kreg jog for this project, highly recommend it! Other tools used were a miter saw, circular saw, and drill.

I made this for a friend who needed some separation of 2 rooms. It works well as a see through wall/storage. I seen a photo of this and made it to the specs of that. It is 65" x 31.5" x 11 1/4". It turned out really well and very sturdy. The boxes are 12"x20". Bottom shelf is 7" from the bottom. I used all shelving wood which I would change now if I knew how much it chipped away and how heavy it is.

My husband built this table from the Farmhouse table plans.  Just changed up the top somewhat.  It's beautiful!

I've very happy with the results of my "Fancy X Farmhouse Table" project.  I modified the dimensions to fit our space; this meant making the table thinner and re-sizing the "X's" proportionally.  Also, for trimming the edges of the "X's", I came up with a combination of base board pieces at the end of the 2x4's.  I hadn't used wood stain in over 20 years because I had gotten such blotchy results.  This project reintroduced me to stain and I'm glad it did.  Turns out, the secret is proper sanding AND the use of a "pre-stain" product that sets up the wood for good(even) absorption.  Polyurethane was used as a sealant, while the base frame got white semi-gloss.  Cheers, good luck on all your projects!

-Robert
 Bellingham, WA

Built for a bike shop. 90L x 20D x36H

This was an easy project. It turned out great. I made my own hardware from using the video on Shanty 2 Chic website. That's for posting the plans. 

Modern Adirondack Chairs

I modified the dimensions slightly and opted to not mount the fold down doors as I figured they would always be open anyway.  I built this mostly from solid red oak save for the bottom panel and the middle panel, which are plywood.  I crafted the top out of 5 pieces tongue and grooved with mitred corners on the front.  I also tongue and grooved the doors with glass insets.  I finished it in Minwax red cedar under poly.

We needed a large dining room table for our space and couldn't find one we liked that didn't cost a fortune.  We adjusted the plans to make the table 9 feet long.  Also, around the edge of the table we added a 1.5 inch frame.