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This project was very fun and and easy.

Start from scratch and completed my first Poker Table.

This project is the first of many FUN KIDS rooms by Breckenshear Designs. We started out using the plans for the cottage loft bed and allowed the bed design to evolve to meet the needs of our two children. Our room space was limited to 10x11 so the function of this bed was extremely important. Our daughters LOVE their new space and my partner and I look forward to creating many more fantastic rooms! Thanks Ana White for the cottage loft bed plans!

I needed a couple more birdhouses and this plan was perfect! They were super easy and quick to build and the pickets were on sale for $1.18, so it only cost $.59 for each house!

I built this crib and changing table using the DIYstinctly made crib plans and the simple changing table plans from this site.  The tartan design on the shelving is the product of LOTS of painters tape.  A word of warning: if you decide to build this crib, buy your matress first and cut the rails to length.  I had to remedy a gap of about 6 inches at the end.

Your beautiful Fancy X farmhouse table. We wanted to seat 8. Used your plan with the top idea from Hint of Home. We used cedar tongue and groove for the top. We are so pleased with it! Now for chairs!

I built these as end tables in my living room. I made one narrower (only 14") by subtracting 3 1/2" from the end measurements and only using 4 2x4's on the top. Quick build, only about 2 hours to put together ( :) ), but the finishing took a while.

Thanks so much for the plans for this project. It was a lot of fun, and it turned out great!

I was thinking of buying the conversion kit for my son's crib when I came across this bed. I modified it a little but used the base design. It came out great and this was the first time he saw it and got in it. Now all we need to do is figure out how to get him to use it! 

I took on this project about 3-months, I was inspired by the excellent plans provided by fsmumford. I made a couple of modifications, adding a small bump out in the middle, to enhance the castle look, fabric covered seat cushions on the stairs, and an added 2x2 in the middle of the bed to add extra support.

Thanks to fsmumford for the awesome inspirations and great step by step guide.

This can be put together pretty quick. The finishing is what takes the longest. And I used the Kreg plugs to fill the pocket holes, which meant extra time for gluing and sanding, But they work nicely.

I’m an avid boxer and wanted to be able to work out in the convenience of my garage without making too much noise, and still make it easy to carry out normal garage functions (workshop and parking the car). I came up with an original design of a speed bag platform that locks away in a raised position, completely out of the way for normal garage usage. Then it unbolts and slides down when ready to engage. I also used rubber dampeners where I mounted it to the ceiling rafters to reduce vibrations and cut down on noise travelling through the house. 

I documented the whole project in my blog post at http://www.justmeasuringup.com/blog/diy-boxing-speed-bag-station-that-stows

I work on a lot of projects in the garage, and having a speed bag right in the middle is a great way to take a short break in the middle of it all - or when I bang my thumb with the hammer and want to release some anger :)

Faux fireplace.

It was time for a new mattress - as it so happened, the store had a sale on: any size for the price of a single. So I couldn't resist and got the king rather than the queen size. Rather than buying the the bottom of the ensemble as well I decided to try and build a bed.
Would have loved a farmhouse bed, but the bedroom is tiny, the king only just fits in, so no foot end or chunky posts. Mom's fine farmhouse bed was the initial choice - but I like my timber `natural' and couldn't get pine mouldings. So ended up building the reclaimed headboard - out of cypress pine fence pickets: these come in 65x19mm (i.e. close to a 1x3 pine board) and up to 1800mm long, but used pine for the bits which are not visible (easier to work with & lighter). I wanted a bed where my feet touch the ground when I sit on the edge and which don't need to climb up to, so shortened everything to make the top of the mattress at 550mm from the floor.
The bed itself is from Mom's farmhouse bed plans, modified for a King (72 inches wide) with a middle rail. The sides are made from two length of cypress tongue and groove floorboards each, joined together with pocket hole screws and with the top tongues ripped off. The slats are fence pickets as well - managed to find enough of the nominally 1800mm ones which were just long enough to fit across after squaring off the ends, the most economical option. To hold them in place, I glued on spacer blocks cut from a 1x2 length of pine - the slats sit between them snugly & making the slats removable makes it much easier to move the bed.
I sealed the timber with a base coat of oil-based polyurethane and the applied furniture wax (carnauba) and buffed it to a soft glow.
This was a big project, it took me the best part of 4 weekends - lack of space & winter weather didn't help (ended up assembling the bed in the lounge room). It cost me almost $300 all up, about $220 for timber, the rest for screws, nails, sandpaper, glue, varnish, woodfiller and wax - half the price of what the commercial base alone would have been.

I used Anna's plan for the farmhouse table and shortened the length to fit my space. I liked the look of the angled 4x4's on the middle brace, but with my smaller table I had to make them into an X. Really pleased with the results. Thanks Anna for the inspiration!