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This is our version of the farm house table. Flat white base with a grey finish on top to give it a coastal farmhouse theme. 

The first time I saw Ana's pallet shelves I knew I had to build them! It took a while but I found the perfect application. A place to hang the kids bibs and our snow pants that are a bit too long for the coat rack, and the bonus shelf for wet hats/mittens or chicken gloves that you don't exactly want in with your clean stuff ;>

My wife saw a painter's ladder shelf at IKEA and wanted one for our master bathroom.   I showed her the shelf on Ana's site and she liked that one much more.  So ... a few hours later we had our  new shelf and my wife couldn't  be more pleased.

This took me forever to do even with the plans and I still had to rig it cause I just couldn't get it square.  Im working on that but I'm very new at wood working and took this project on but I absolutely love it. This really cleared up my shed and space combined with extra tables to work on.  I got to use it for the first time today and it was awesome.  I think everyone should have one of these !!!

I needed a place to put extra plants in my classroom, and this was easy and fit the bill perfectly. I left out one shelf to allow space for plant growth. - Jennifer

I followed the plans for the Side Street Bunk Beds and added the ladder and guard rail from the Simple Bunk Bed plans. I modified the angle on the ladder so that it wasn't as steep of an angle as called for in the plans. I'm not sure the length for the ladder stated in the plans was correct anyhow as mine came up too short, leading me to modify my angles and not completely scrap my boards. I don't recall the angles I used at the moment. This was a "side" project that I completed this Fall in between the normal duties of mom and being in 3rd trimester of pregnancy! Not a hard build, but a heavy one! I used 1/4" lag bolts for the rails so we could easily disassemble it.

Sanding proved to be a big task. I thought I had skimped a little on this task, but once we applied our paints, it all smoothed out just fine. We distressed it, so it has a slightly rugged look, yet a shiny, satin finish. I didn't focus too much attention in painting the slats and inside rails (one coat of white plus one clear top coat). We sanded down the rails that are exposed to the bottom bunk, and slacked on the ones closest to the floor.

The beds are gorgeous! The picture doesn't do it justice. Well worth the effort and savings as opposed to buying a $1500 bed. Plus, my girls got to see mommy create something practical! When they are old enough, they can help!

Built this for my father for Father's Day he loved it.

I gave up my closet for a bathroom remodel last year...totally worth it. Since then my shoes have been stored in a pile next to my bed.  So happy I found this wonderful pattern.  I love my new shoe dresser!!  Thank you Ana!!

I used the "Reclaimed Wood Look" bedside table plans but altered them to make it taller to go with our bed and to make them less wide and long. The finished product has top dimensions of 14 1/2" by 14 1/2" to fit in our small room. I also removed the top drawer to make a bookshelf. The first table took about 4 hours to build and sand and the second one went a lot quicker. I stained each with one coat of Minwax Dark Walnut and sealed with 3 light coats of polyacrylic. The pulls are from Lee Valley.

This is the second of three AG doll beds I made for my nieces.

I am so in love with how this turned out! We will be making the matching Rustic "X" Console Table next!!!

Doll bunkbed and highchair used scraps where I had screws I counter drilled and used plugs with many types of wood I just used pallet wood kinda looks like mahogany - Jack

Here is my fist whack at this bed for my son. I am starting the one for my daughter as well, but am modifying the design to have storage stairs.

As suggested at the beginning of the instructions, be sure to read through the entire set of instructions before shopping and making this headboard. The parts lists calls for 3 - 7ft pieces of moulding. However, we needed more than three to do the finishing touches. Also, none of the mouldings suggested were at our Home Depot, so we improvised. Cutting some of the mouldings to go around the corners was too challenging for us, so we ended the moulding strips at the end of the bed. To give the ends a finished look, we used some of the 1/4" plywood, cut them, and sanded them. Be sure to sand all the surfaces. The instructions tell you how long to cut some pieces, but they don't say whether the board is supposed to be a 2X4 or 1X6, so be sure to go through the directions thoroughly before starting and cutting. We did use spray paint, and it took more than three cans to provide sufficient coverage, since the wood soaked up much of the first layer of paint.