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Followed plans with slight modifications:
1. Made shelves deeper but narrower
2. Used 3/4" Birch Plywood for all
3. Built no base just mounted to floor & wall
4. No drawers just shelving

Built a simple bench to put under our big living room window. Top boards are were reclaimed and left over from my buffet table project. One of them was fracturing on the outside, and upon cleaning it up it gave it kind of a live looking edge that I think looks cool. I used 2x6 pine for the legs and support underneath with 2x4's.  

My wife and I came across your plans for a single canopy bed which we modified since our granddaughter Adelyn has two American dolls.    Modifying your plans to widen the bed was easy.  We elected to go with a "split rail" design for both the headboard and the footboard.  

My wife made the bedspread, pillows and "curtains".

Today (2/17) is her birthday - can't wait to see her reaction.  Thanks for posting the project plans for this, as well as many others.

Bob & Marilyn, Rochester NY

Our daughter has just recently gotten into playing dress up so we were looking for storage for all of her new dresses and accessories. This tower was the perfect solution. We used a mostly MDF and some plywood we had left over from other projects to help keep the cost down. We added a mirror to one side and 3 hooks to the other side. Very pleased with the result!

My daughter's 4th year-old birthday gift.

With six people in our household, we were in desperate need of easily accessed storage for our off season clothes/gear.  This ended up being a perfect solution.  We customized shelf heights to fit the bins that we use for storage as well as made an area for our cat box (at the bottom right).  It's such a relief to finally have everything tucked away but easy to get at when we need it. 

This is the first project my husband and I have made. Funny enough, it was suggested in the directions to not do this as a first project. We had already gotten the materials and our minds were already made up on building this media console. We just took it one board and one nail at a time. Sometimes we would take one step forward only to turn around and take two steps backwards. We learned A LOT on this project. Needless to say, we loved working together and building our own furniture... We will be building more for sure!

I used old gumwood and pine for the table top. Just finished renovating 1930’s house and saved some old wood from the baseboards, fireplace mantel, etc. Used craigs jig to connect them for table top. I was only ¾ inch thick, a bit too thin for my liking, so I added bottom frame from new ¾ inch pine then enclosed the whole table top with the 1.5 inch frame from old wood leftovers. Legs all new 4X4 fir beams. Came out quite nice and definitely unbreakable! Thanks for the plans, Anna! 

This project was completed in a weekend. I was really proud of the result. 

Thanks for the plans on the simple bench

Great little project that doesn't take much time. We'll be using it on our fireplace mantle this Christmas season.

My husband and I built this bench for a wedding gift.  We love the plan, so easy to follow and alter measurements to adjust size.  We finished it with a whitewash finish.

It took the husband and I a good 3 days to finish this project. You can read more of my experience with this chaise on our blog:
http://tonyandkristine.blogspot.com/

For the plans, I found them at Lazy Liz on Less blog:
http://lazylizonless.blogspot.com/2012/05/it-took-me-while-to-decide-wh…

I used MDF and Pine for this build. 

I used a pneumatic door lift for the lid so that it will stay open and not fall on little heads or fingers.

I hand painted the stars and text.

Thank you for such clear and fun plans. This coffee table is the first piece of furniture I have built and I can't wait to make a complementary side table and console. I used the Minwax Dark Walnut stain and three coats of Minwax oil-based polyurethane, and sanded between each coat. I made the end pieces of the tabletop with leftover 2x2s and then added the center support beneath the tabletop before securing or to the frame to help keep it flat. 

I did this project for my father's birthday this February. Any ideas to improve it let me know. I hand drew the plaque on the back. I used some old brass when I went hunting in the past.

This project followed the plans at http://ana-white.com/2012/03/plans/kentwood-bookshelf with a major customization twist. The backing is actually made from a photo op wall I built for our daughter’s wedding. The wall was ten feet tall the bookshelf backing is from some of the lettering boards.