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I’ve built the greenhouse for your plans, but I love it.

I saw these plans on Ana White's website, so I figured I would try to make one with recycled wooden pallets. It was a fun and easy project. I added a third set of legs in the center of the chair to provide extra support. Using the pallet wood offered a few challenges, mostly relating to the size of 2x4s you buy versus the ones used to build pallets.

The end user of this chaise lounge chair is going to seal it with a cedar colored stain/sealer so that is matches the Pallirondack Double Settee (one of my other projects) I made for them earlier this year.

Great plans, great fun.

This project took a long time since it was my first and I had a baby boy in the middle of completing it. But finally it is finished. I had help with the construction and the plan was modified a little bit (83x38 inches) mostly since it needed to fit in the back of my father-in-law's van for transport to our new home. The finished product came out pretty well for my first foray into woodworking!

This was one of my first builds ever! I'm hooked! 

I chose to use your plans for the "Modern Outdoor Chair from 2x4s and 2x6s" and it turned out great on our front porch! Now we have a new place to chill in our chairs among our plants in the shade on summer days!

Ive been looking for a sewing table to fit my space. but found none for less than $500 and they were quite small. I found a post at quiltedcupcake.com that linked me to another blog, linking me here. I modified the plan to be about 2 feet wide and cut a hole to fit my sewing machine. There is a support in the bottom to hold my machine level with the tabletop. When I make this in the future, I will splurge on a fine hardwood. This plan was easy to build and looks great! Just what I was looking for :D

This was my first project from Ana White and it turned out so well I made more. Very easy and inexpensive. Used Red Oak for the tabletop and California Redwood for the legs.

Barnwood fancy x farmhouse table.  

Sofa Arm Table

'The Swede in Norway

The bed was a wedding present to my wife. I got rough cut, kiln dried hickory at a local sawmill, planed, and joined it to get the finished lumber. The lumber was sanded with three grtis with a random orbital sander and wet sanded once. The posts are laminated hickory slats that I inleted for the rail hook hardware. The head and footboard slates are tongue and groove, fitted into troughs on the top and bottom. The tops of the posts were milled out to allow the tongue and groove cap to fit flush. Three coats of Golden Oak, and then two coated of polyurethane. Looks great, but really heavy.

We kept the windows square. Our Jigsaw is broken, so we also skipped the heart cutouts. We have a boy and a girl, so we chose a beach house theme. I'm a total beginner builder, and my husband helped me at night after the kids were in bed. It took us about 6 weeks. We used shakes to build the roof. They are pretty affordable from Home Depot. 1x6 boards were considerably more expensive, so we substituted 1x4s.

These Chairs  where fun and  easy to build. I used 1x8 for the back. I used counter sunk 1  1/4 in screws and  pocket holes and  kreig screws. I thought A hinge would not be safe so I screws the tray down with a 2in overhang. Can not wait until Christmas.

First time using live edge, Wood and creating a feature wall. Happy with this outcome.

Wow, this was an amazingly fun project! My first Ana White project that I made for my baby girl's first birthday. Way young, I know but it's been lots of fun for this amateur woodworker watch his daughter make lots of creations in this little kitchen. Still to be added is the curtain under the sink. Some things to note--scrapbook paper for the backsplash that I gluegunned on and then modge-podged the surface to create one childproof layer; magnetic metal inserts that I sprayed with chalkboard paint (dual feature!); the sink is made from a thrift store bowl and the faucets on the countertop are really lugnuts gluegunned into nuts and bolts underneath, but loose enough to still turn; and our burners are silver and black painted pieces of plywood (probably the hardest part of the creative process was figuring that out); and lastly our stove knobs are made of toy truck wheels. We also added a fun battery operated light in the oven that I fashioned out of a battery powered LED light, PVC pipe, a light switch from Radio Shack and some wire. That took a ton of time.

What I learned the most in this project was the need to keep being creative and not let reality limit me. With creativity there is always a way! Have fun and enjoy yourself with this one. Our little one regularly gives us "cake" and "soup" that she makes in her little kitchen. Thanks, Ana, for a great forum!

My son made the table and the love seats for his Senior project in high school . What a labor of love. Love they way it turned out. He opted not to do the flag but to stain it all over. It took 5 coats of stain to get the finish we got.

I followed Ana's basic table plans but modified it to have legs in the middle (6 legs instead of 4). I used ballisters/ banisters found out our local Habitat for Humanity Restore for the legs which helped cut down the cost.