Cabin Bed
This was so much fun to build and it turned out really great. It was the perfect gift for my son on his fourth birthday.
This was so much fun to build and it turned out really great. It was the perfect gift for my son on his fourth birthday.
I had to change around a bit of the plan because my daughter's room has a weird shape. So she gets into bed on one side of the bed, but the playhouse side is opposite so that it would be able to accommodate a window and a door on that side. We were able to put in 3 full sized windows this way.
Inside her playhouse is the play kitchen set I built her several years ago (it's seen a ton of use), as well as the doll crib that I built her (which has also seen a ton of use.)
Inside, we used coated mug hooks around the top of the inside to hang rope lights, and we used the same hooks as curtain rod hangers for the cafe tension rod curtain rods we used for the windows.
Custom built-in desk and bookshelves. We combined plans for a massive desk with bookshelves. Working from home, I needed to maximize my storage space but wanted to create beauty and function at the same time. I love the finished results! I admire my new desk everyday I "go to work."
Our guest room finally has a headboard! I put together this queen size headboard using what I had learned building my daughter's headboard (and consulting the plans for the Reclaimed Wood Headboard) using the remainder of the plywood sheet from her headboard project, 2x3s for the legs, a 2x4 to join the legs (and connect to the metal bed frame), furring strips, and a 1x3 to top it off.
Our plywood had been cut to fit our car, so the first vertical furring strip was placed to hide the seam where I joined the two pieces back together. Then we evenly placed them from center as just looked right to us.
We had a great time seeing this come together as we didn't follow a specific plan, but were able to be a bit more creative inspired by various plans.
Great project idea but this thing is a beast. I hope I never move, and if I do it's probably staying with the house! This was a lot of work, but well worth it!
Made it four feet longer for her four chicks. Will be adding automatic feeders and water soon.
I apologize for not having before and after shots from the same perspective, but this is the bookcase I built to replace the very poorly sized and very poor quality bookcase that was in this room before. The room has a slanted ceiling that goes from 8' to 16,' and has baseboard heaters that got in the way of cabinetry. I worked around it. These were my first cabinets, and they didn't come out exactly has I had envisioned, but they're pretty darn close! The shelves are all on brackets that are screwed into studs in the wall, and the boards that make the sides of the bookcase aren't even screwed down. I wanted something that would be sturdy and yet easy to take down or change. I left space in the middle because we'd like to put in a fireplace one day...
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We built the Farmhouse Table using the updated pocket hole plans. We adjusted the size and left off the stretcher board since ours is much smaller than the plans call for.
In reply to Stain Color by JLU5003
Fri, 09/12/2014 - 13:42
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I used a layered approach with a couple of different colors. For the finish we purchased Minwax Pre-Stain Wood Conditioner, Minwax Special Walnut Stain, Minwax Weathered Oak Stain and Polycrylic. Here is a link to the blog post I wrote about staining the table: http://69.195.124.114/~theanch5/2014/05/14/diy-farmhouse-dining-table/
This was my first project, and it took me about 2 weeks to complete it. I don't have a lot of tools, so there were many frequent little trips to Home Depot (by now I think I definitely have the basics down). I would put in an hour here and there, and was finally able to paint the beautiful thing today. I am extremely happy with how it turned out. Thank you Ana for the wonderful plans. My family and I are looking forward to many evenings on the patio on the new sofa.
Built Cup storage shelf after adding a new set up cabinets and wood countertop.
I built this sturdy work bench to complete further projects off the ground! It's helped me to be organized, keep my tools together and stretch these legs!
This project is excellent for a first time builder. Mistakes don't matter much, it's pretty straight forward and easy, doesn't require special cuts. Allows you to practice measuring, cutting, drilling, etc.
I loved the RH-inspired Balustrade Coffee Table that I built for my parents, I decided to make one for our living room! Ours had to be more of a square though, to fit our space more appropriately, so I modified the dimensions. This affected our shopping and cut lists, of course. Check out the blog post for more info.
I needed to build a loft bed for a small room that has a nine foot ceiling, I wanted to have ample storage room below, but was concerned about a ladder that would stick out at an angle taking up a little too much precious real estate in the small room. Using Ana's great Sketch Up plans, I modified the design by incorporating a fifth leg as a permant addition to attach the ladder to. Part of the appeal of Ana's design was the ability to take apart the bed if it ever needed to be taken out of the room it is installed in, and the ladder became a part of the foot board end, perhaps a little unwieldy, but still able for two people to lift and move.
As a self-taught woodworker, I wanted something a little nicer than standard pine boards, and since we have a nice local hardwood supplier in our town, I was able to buy some nice red oak in a 13/16" thickness. This project gave me the opportunity to use the planer that I bought some time ago but hadn't really used very much, so I ended up milling all of the wood to bring all to a uniform thickness. In gluing up the legs, I used a spreader and a lot of clamps so that there are no screws, staples or nails joining the boards, just a lot of Titebond II.
For the ladder itself, I cut dados in the upright edges of the ladder and attached the treads with 2" wood screws along with a liberal amount of glue. I had a slight miscaculation on the width of the ladder, so in order for it to fit in between the two legs, I had to plane away a small amount of wood, which you can see the end of in the last picture, the close up of the ladder.
After a fair amount of sanding and a round over bit in my palm router to break all the exposed edges, I finished with three coats of polyurethene. The bed was assembled in the room using 2" wood screws which I had pre-drilled when I dry-fitted the bed out on my driveway. There are three screws in each corner of the mattress board and two screws in each corner of the railing. The short section of the front rail is also attached with screws so it can be removed as well if the bed is ever moved. I finished the installation with three, six inch lag bolts, two higher up going into wall studs, one near the bottom bolting into the wall plate on the floor. The bed was very solid, but has been made even more so with the addition of a bookshelf spanning the width of the footboard, and it is as deep as the ladder is wide. I offset the side of the bookshelf on the ladder side to allow for a two inch gap so your toes can overhand the ladder treads when climbing up or down.
I built a set of these chairs based on Ana's simple modern outdoor chair. I wanted it to match my front porch which I built a few weeks ago. Thank you for the plans.
Kinda new at working with wood but I enjoyed this one and did it in under a day. I also just recently built a complete wooden fence before I did this so building frames was fun.
Designed by myself. Used a jigsaw, nail gun, and made miter cuts on the molding for the first time on this project. Glued a curtain panel I bought at target to the back before attaching it.
Overall size is 7 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 1 foot deep.
This was our very first project! It went amazing ❤️ I absolutely love it. The plans provided were exactly what I needed and broke down everything for a first timer. Thank you so much Ana!
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zduchene
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 18:31
Mattress Fit
How tight was the twin Mattress?