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Wall Jewelry Cabinet

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 02/07/2016 - 22:15

I built this for Girlfriend this Christmas. It was fun to surprise her. I put some jewelry in it, wrapped it, and put it under the tree. I think it turned out really nice. I installed a recessed bead-board back and 1/8" glass in the door. All black hardware and a two tone finish.  She loves it but she filled it up real quick. I guess I could have built it bigger! wink

Built from Plan(s)
Estimated Cost
$70-$90 including lumber, paint, stain, glass, and hardware
Estimated Time Investment
Weekend Project (10-20 Hours)
Finish Used
Swiss Chalk Paint and Minwax pre-stain conditioner, Dark Walnut stain and Satin Polyurethane
Recommended Skill Level
Intermediate

Fancy X Farmhouse Table

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 09/08/2019 - 11:35

Fancy X Farmhouse table for the wife. Modified to 8ft table with 2x 4Ft benches and 1x 8ft bench. Used bolt screws to diagonal slats for looks and pipe horizontal support vice the 2x4. Top is Dark walnut stain and an egg shell Chalk paint with outdoor clear coat. Kids had a blast distressing the table and benches for an older look. Not a bad weekend project.

Estimated Cost
$300
Estimated Time Investment
Week Long Project (20 Hours or More)
Recommended Skill Level
Intermediate

Nathan's Montreal Canadians bed

Submitted by Corinne67 on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 16:04

Our nephew Nathan really wanted a captain's bed like his friend. We built him one even better for Christmas this year. I couldn't find one plan with everything we wanted to I used the plans for the Storage Daybed for the base, and used the plans for the Cozy Corner twin bed collection wide bookcase unit. We combined both the headboard and sideboard into one unit (by extending the top to the short end) giving him an L shaped headboard for all his hockey stuff :) The only thing we messed up on was the height of the bookcase. He wanted it higher so it's on blocks for now to raise it. My sister did all the final painting to match his room and it looks AWESOME!!!

Steve had everything cut at work and we put it together in one 12 hour day! Nathan LOVES his new bed. Thank you Ana!

Estimated Cost
about $125
Estimated Time Investment
Weekend Project (10-20 Hours)
Finish Used
Nathan is a HUGE Montreal Canadian's fan. He applied 2 coats of wood primer, then his mom, my sister did the finishing paint with the official Montreal Canadians colours to match his room. A couple of little touch ups to be done but it looks great.
Recommended Skill Level
Beginner

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Lou-Anne (not verified)

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 21:24

The colors are the official Montreal Canadiens hockey team's colors, My son is a HUGE fan! Nathan LOVES his bed. and it is very solid.

Guest (not verified)

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 20:29

Ummm... The bookcases were too short because you didn't take the mattress height into account. Looks really good though.

Princess Castle Loft Bed

We used the plans from this site to build this for our daughter. We did however make the bed part a bit more sturdy to ensure that no one would get hurt and to make sure it could support any weight. We added 4 2x4s across the bed like rafters and screwed the slats on top of them.

Estimated Cost
$350
Estimated Time Investment
Week Long Project (20 Hours or More)
Finish Used
Paint
Recommended Skill Level
Intermediate

A princess castle bed

My first ever woodwork project! Thank you Ana white! 

Estimated Time Investment
Week Long Project (20 Hours or More)
Recommended Skill Level
Beginner

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Princess Bed with Stairs and Slide

Made a princess bed for my little peanut. We adapted the idea of the stairs with storage and then added a slide. I hung LED Christmas lights underneath with a foot switch so she has light in her play area.

Estimated Cost
$350
Estimated Time Investment
Week Long Project (20 Hours or More)
Recommended Skill Level
Beginner

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Guest (not verified)

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 19:20

Please tell me your roof pitch is 12:12 - we are building a house and I have already promised my children to build them both this kind of bed. But I'm fretting that I won't have enough head room - but seeing this picture gives me hope! Our roof pitch is going to be 12:12 and our house is 28 wide, witch will make the upstairs rooms about 20 foot wide I believe at the base of the wall....sorry for rambling....just excited to see your pic. Great job by the way:)

trenthenderson

Fri, 01/13/2012 - 07:17

I made another comment but forgot to hit reply. You can see it below this one. But the point at the ceiling-wall intersection you see in the picture is 72". Hope that helps on perspective.

Trent

trenthenderson

Wed, 01/11/2012 - 14:11

If our pitch isn't 12:12, it's dang close because it's steep on that side. The general layout can be found on Ana's site. I had to modify extensively on height and width to accommodate the room and the play kitchen and the slide. My dimensions are 67" high at the posts, 114" wide from outside slide to outside stairs, and 42" deep. With her mattress on there, she has 8" of railing to make sure she doesn't tumble out. Hope that helps.

If you have other questions, let me know.

Trent

Guest (not verified)

Sun, 01/22/2012 - 17:23

Can you post the plans and dimensions for the slide? I love this bed, and I'm planning to start on it for my daughter.

trenthenderson

Sun, 01/22/2012 - 18:24

I honestly don't know how to post plans here. My email is trent henderson at hotmail dot com. If you'll email me the request, I'll put it on a PDF or something and send it to you.

DIY Salvaged Mudroom setup inspired by the Fancy Hall Tree

I was inspired by the fancy hall tree project, but what I made is a total modification/inspired by with salvaged materials, I loved the idea of having wood backing for the mudroom bench and hooks. I had some leftover vintage door knobs from our interior refurbish, so kept them raw metal (sandblasted the metal and clear coated it with polyurethane to keep from rusting). I found some amazing old mahogany bleacher boards from a local high school and a great slab of fir for the bench. I've been building several of Ana's plans and using some of the projects for inspiration when working with salvaged materials ;)

Built from Plan(s)
Estimated Cost
$175
Estimated Time Investment
Weekend Project (10-20 Hours)
Finish Used
used dark walnut stain on the bench, and on the wall/bleacher boards, I stenciled on numbers to look like "seat" numbers, finished all of it with 3 coats of water based polycrylic in semi gloss
Recommended Skill Level
Beginner

Who needs Restoration Hardware??

We have huge open walls in our new house. We needed something big! And like everyone else on here, we didn't want shell out $3-4000 for something we really wanted. These plans were perfect. I did make a few adjustments. The overall dimensions are 98"H X 63"W. I used some different trim. I custom made the bottom trim. I also added fronts to the shelves to cover the exposed plywood edges. Really happy I added those. Made a huge difference IMO. I really love it!

Built from Plan(s)
Estimated Cost
$350-400
Estimated Time Investment
Week Long Project (20 Hours or More)
Finish Used
2 coats of Minwax Driftwood and Hellmans Spray Poly
Recommended Skill Level
Intermediate

Farmhouse coffee table

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/01/2019 - 18:11

My husband and I have enjoyed building this coffee table together. This is our 2nd Ana white build together. So glad we found this website. Thank you for creating these step by step plans, we're excited to build more beautiful furniture for our home.

Estimated Cost
112
Estimated Time Investment
Afternoon Project (3-6 Hours)
Finish Used
Varathane Briarsmoke
Recommended Skill Level
Intermediate

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Greenhouse

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 05/26/2023 - 15:26

We followed Ana's plans but went 1 ft taller on the pony walls to increase the height. We are so impressed with how it turned out. I'm excited to grow plants in Northwestern Ontario.

Built from Plan(s)

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XL Snack Cabinet

Submitted by Jarrah on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 18:13

I built the Channing Snack cabinet as a Christmas present for my husbands "man cave". It's bigger than the plans outline in order to accommadate the larger "mini-fridge" I bought from Target. He absolutly loves it and it looks like a piece you would get at a real furnature store and not something I built in my barn at night.

Built from Plan(s)
Estimated Cost
75
Estimated Time Investment
Weekend Project (10-20 Hours)
Finish Used
High Gloss Bombay Mahogany
Recommended Skill Level
Intermediate

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lalapizzaparty (not verified)

Sat, 01/14/2012 - 19:12

I love this! So fun. I love that you built this in your barn for your hubs mancave.
That makes you sound pretty cool!

woodtop

Sat, 01/14/2012 - 19:34

Hey..that amazing. I have a brother who own a mini fridge in his room. This will look nice for him to put his mini fridge. It will also look nice if can add a door to it.

Modified Jr. Loft Bed

We loved the idea of the Jr. Loft Bed, but made some modifications to fit our needs.

Modifications:
-I didn't really feel the 2x6 railing was needed, so to cut costs, we used all 2x4s. On the end, I put two 2x4s one on top of the other to keep the mattress from sliding off the ladder side.

-Height was a concern for me as my kids are 4 & 2. So I lowered the overall height by about a foot. 54in is the height. Since we are putting my youngest on the bottom (on the floor) we made sure she had enough head room.

-We wanted this to be STURDY and reversible. So we added bottom supports on both long sides to ensure that the frame wasn't going to move. We also added six 2x4 supports under the mattress on the top. I can climb up there to tuck in sheets with no problem.

-We skipped the stairs & landing. I didn't want my kids to be playing on the bed. So we skipped the stairs and just built a ladder into the frame instead.

This was a fairly easy build. We previously built a HUGE Ana White Table. And I felt like I was kreg jigging for DAYS. This was only a few hours of cutting, sanding, kreg jigging, and a simple put together. Staining took the longest! It's a great bed and we're so excited it's finished!

Estimated Cost
$70
Estimated Time Investment
Day Project (6-9 Hours)
Finish Used
We used Minwax Polyshades. Classic Oak Gloss. 2 coats.
Recommended Skill Level
Beginner

Sliding Barn Door Console

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/16/2016 - 12:14

We wanted to build this piece for so long, but couldn't find 1/2" metal anywhere. Mind you, we live in a pretty small town. We finally just decided to use 1/8" Metal, which works just fine in my opinion. We followed the rest of the tutorial, but I find that they don't go over how to install the metal at all. That needs a tutorial all on its own. We improvised with what we had here in our small town. We ideally wanted to find old metal, but that didn't happen. So we bought new steel, spray painted it & then beat it up so it looked more vintage. 

I'd say hanging the barn doors & the track is the longest part for sure. 

Built from Plan(s)
Estimated Cost
300 ( We live in Canada, so everything is much more expensive here )
Estimated Time Investment
Day Project (6-9 Hours)
Finish Used
Top is stained in our Beachwood ( colors mixed from the Minwax stains ) Bottom is painted in pure white. Hardware is black & beaten up
Matte Polyurethane finish.
Recommended Skill Level
Intermediate

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My first wood working project after being inspired by Ana white

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/01/2019 - 22:53

I followed the plans pretty closely. I always wanted to get into woodworking and once I bought a house I finally had the space! My wife wanted a farm house table and rather than spend $500+ on one I told her I could build it. Luckily that turned out to be true!

Built from Plan(s)
Finish Used
Walnut stain
Recommended Skill Level
Beginner

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Bird House against predator

Hi I was tired to see the magpies and flickers destroying the nest and kill the sparrows After days of research i came up with this model that i tested last summer and believe me, it was successfully accepted by sparrows This year i made bunch of them, some different models till i get to the yellow one style that is perfect I really loved it and i'm here sharing it with you guys I will share plan for this bird house in my Instagram next week (June 12)

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Tryde Table

I took the Tryde coffee table plan and made it taller and wider to fit our dining room space! It turned out way better than expected!

Built from Plan(s)
Estimated Cost
$150 ish (CAD)
Estimated Time Investment
Week Long Project (20 Hours or More)
Finish Used
I mixed the meduim and dark brown water based General Stain colours (2 coats) and then used a satin finish poly.
Recommended Skill Level
Beginner

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Mar_co (not verified)

Wed, 05/02/2012 - 15:37

This is beautiful ! how was your experience with spruce? im debating between spruce and pine, but spruce here is so much cheaper... did it split at all?

Crate Christmas Tree

Submitted by MaryMurray on Wed, 12/04/2013 - 11:11

I made all the crates and put them together to make this interesting 'christmas tree'.

Built from Plan(s)
Estimated Time Investment
Weekend Project (10-20 Hours)
Finish Used
golden oak from minwax
Recommended Skill Level
Starter Project

Comments

MaryMurray

Sun, 12/15/2013 - 07:03

I found the best app ever. "Tapeulator" If you are tape measure challenged like me you will love this app. For example: what is 8 3/8 - 6 1/2? It can be hard to figure out...just type it into the tapeulator and get your answer, it also shows the location of the answer on the measuring tape. I love it!
My husband gets so aggravated when I measure something and say it's 4 and 2 lines...lol. I really do know what the little lines are, it is just quicker for me. haha

King Minimalistic Platform Bed

We built this bed actually from a few different styes from this website. We didn't really like the cut out that much - but we loved how low to the ground it was. So we combined the farmhouse bed, with this bed with a west elm bed to come up with this style. I can be happy to say we've sold over 40 of these beds from Double - Kings! We use 2x3" slats for the base. Super strong! Our frame is made out of 2x12's and then the headboard is attached to the base. This is our personal bed & we're so in love with it!

Built from Plan(s)
Estimated Cost
230.00 CA
Estimated Time Investment
Afternoon Project (3-6 Hours)
Finish Used
We stained this bed in a Early American / Dark Walnut Mix & varnished this bed in Semi Gloss.
Recommended Skill Level
Beginner

Batman’s lair

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 10/02/2019 - 11:25

We took the farmhouse bed with drawers plan and made it into a twin bed instead of a queen for my six year old son. He wanted it to be Batman blue, and we even got his own bat signal on the headboard!

Estimated Cost
$230.00
Estimated Time Investment
Weekend Project (10-20 Hours)
Finish Used
Batman blue paint :)
Recommended Skill Level
Intermediate

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Outdoor sectional with drop cloth canvas rollouts

Submitted by dubtodd on Thu, 06/08/2023 - 21:09

Slight mod, table added from wood picnic table that the sectional replaced.

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