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we recently used the plans for the farm house twin bed, and created it with our own little twist for our 3 year old son! Instead of the normal slats we used car siding to create the "blocks" for my Lego vision. The bed is stained with a black gel stain by min wax, and the slates are painted from colors I picked out a Lowes. I wanted him to have a matching bed to his dress. I got this really neat dresser from a friend and I stained the out side and painted the draw fronts bright colors like Legos. our next project for his room will be night stands and possibly a bookshelf

This was my first furniture project and I simply wanted to hide all of the cords for my TV. My husband and I opted out of the drawers since we wanted a big area to store all of the other items (DVDs, playstation, etc.). We also did not put a back on the table so the electronics stored inside could properly ventilate without overheating.

Built this table over the weekend with the intention of selling it. My wife isnt so sure she wants to let it go now though! I used a 2 in 1 stain and poly that i am not happy with the results of. From now on im going to stick with the tried and true method of doing the stain and finish seperatly. Overall, i like the plans and will probably build a few more of these to sell.

DIY farmhouse table built by my wonderful husband. We used legs from Osborne wood and the apron and legs were stained and antiqued using a crackle glaze and antique white paint. Love it. The plans were great. Our cost was high because we had to purchase a kreg jig. But it will get a lot if use. Next project will be the corona coffee table-square

I always wanted a raised planter box, but never took the time to try building 1 and certainly didn't want to buy 1. My hubbie saw these plans and decided to make it for me. He used wood from our deck that we just pulled up, so the only cost was for the 4x4s and the plywood used for the bottom shelf.

Built two jumbo sized dressers 72 by 36 3/4 by 24 3/4. Painting is still pending. One can see playlist here

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Haven't quite finished this, but here it is all put together. I started with her plans then changed then dramatically. I wanted a 60x60. So I added 17" to the sides. Required me to buy 10' boards instead of 8' boards. When building the base I added 17" to the lengths since that is what I did for the top. I left the center post the same height since I wanted a regular height table.

When it came to the top, I didn't want to do the 1x4, instead I have 2x4 and 2x6 in there. Making the crosses in the squares added lots of time, but it was well worth it. Not sure how many hours I have into this, but its a lot. Materials is right now about $130.

I'll update more when finished.

I made some modifications for bigger spice containers. The big ones you get at Sams/Costco are too big for the original design. The top portion was made with 1x6 sides to take care of the bigger containers.

I followed the directions to a "T" from the originial post, but some of the cut list specifications were off. I purchased an already finished sheet of wood for the top and ended up making a full shelf for the bottom.

Super excited to start on my list of projects now that I have a work bench.

We loved the Sweet Pea plans so much but we didn't need bunk beds. We turned it into a loft bed with a playhouse underneath. We also inverted the shelves on the stairs to be inside the playhouse due to her room size. Added a second roof and window boxes. This project was fun and took us 10 days to complete. Thank You so very much for sharing these AWESOME plans!!

Only change in the plans was decreasing the width by 6 inches to fit our room, turned out to be 48x32in. I used old wood floor we tore up to make the table top. Glued it over plywood. 

Each grandchild gets a bed made by Grandpa. Our granddaughter wanted a "cow bed." It has a fence to keep her tucked in, a happy cow staring at her, a cow jumping over the moon, drawers that are three feet deep, and more black spots than I could have imagined when I started painting. By the end I was so delirious that one of the spots on the back side is the USS Enterprise!

I know there are a hundred brag posts of the $10 ledges, and I have used them before (and posted them) but I am so happy with how these turned out!

Its too bad I don't have a good before picture, because the things I love most about these are the colors and the interchangability and it would be easier to explain with the before picture!

I have had pictures in cute matching frames on the one wall for years, but the frames were too light for the wall color, and the floor and furniture, so I needed to darken them up. Additionally, we got a black tv stand even though the floor and couches are dark brown. (TV is black, so it works) So I made the shelves black to pull that in. Then on the shelves closer to the tv, I used black and silver frames, and on the ones above the brown couch I painted all my light wood frames darker.

As for the interchangability, its a lot easier to pull the frames down and change the picture when you don't have to worry about how they look together - I can just move them around on the shelf. I've always had a hard time getting a "gallery" look just right - something will always hang lower than I want or whatever. So I finally got it perfect with one 10x13 of the kids together in the middle of 4 8x10s (one of each) and a few little ones to mix in. Then we had to go and have #5 and mess my whole system up! :)

So he's 16 months now and his picture is finally on the wall, and was taken last May - so sad..

But my other set of shelves has pictures of everybody - even me, yikes! I decided they look better full so I used all the frames I had, and got some cheap ones and thrift store frames and put them all together. "controlled chaos" just like the rest of the house/life!

Thanks Ana for giving me the confidence to know that I can make it myself, I never would have gone out and spent the money to buy matching frames, but knowing I could just do it myself I was able to get it done for cheap!

We completed this project over several weekends, but that was mostly because we only worked on it for an hour or two. I was THIS close to purchasing a $499 coffee table from Crate and Barrel, when I saw these plans. I wasn't sure how the drawers would work, since we couldn't find short enough drawer slides, so we kind of had to improvise by making our own. This way, we avoided the extra weight from a third piece of plywood on the bottom-most level. We had the sanded plywood cut at Home Depot, and amazingly it fit perfectly! We used the Kregg Jig on almost everything, except for the plywood, because our screws were just a touch too long for 1/2". We definitely had to measure each drawer individually, because they were not the same! (Can you tell? I hope not). It's a good thing I was going for the rustic look, because every time I had a bad spot, I could just hammer it around a bit and make it look worn. We finished this project with a stain and sanded off the edges to keep it from looking too perfect.

We had a great time with this project, and are trying to refrain from starting on the console table!!