Loved making this...conquered my fear of doors and drawers during naptimes!
I made two of these side tables for my niece and her new husband as a house warming gift. I dropped the top down 1.25 inch and added a glass top so she could display items. They are going to be a surprise, so I left them bare. She can stain or paint them whatever color she wishes.
Donna Cox
Large Dog Crates from the plan. We used reclaimed 1x4 material which I milled down to the correct sizes. The tops are edge jointed 1x4's glued up. These were my first project with a Kreg jig! I have been wood working for MANY years and was amazed at how fast things went together with the Kreg.
The two crates are a little different. I shook up the stain for the second one so it came out alot darker. We like the difference but I may rebuild the lighter one in the future. They are finished with American Walnut stain and 4 coats of tung oil.
This was the first time my husband has build kitchen cabinets. We have used many wood working plans from this website. The cabinets are made of two sided prefinished maple wood.
Chamfered the bottoms of some 4x4 douglas fir, and used 2x6 douglas fir for the top. Stained in Minwax Dark Walnut/Special Walnut.
I made this computer desk with just an idea and a picture of my aunt's compter desk I loved! In her desk the middle section goes clear to the floor, but I wanted room for my legs. Her's also was wicker shelves on the bottom sides so I found a general cabinet plan and of course altered that. This was made in 5 separate pieces and put together!
The other picture is the desk in progress and the second pic is the desk I was kinda copying/altering.
Wed, 08/26/2015 - 13:26
This gorgeous desk/bookshelf/cabinet is just what I've been looking for. I'm new to your impressive site & can't access the plans...please help! Thank you for all the wonderful plans
Pleas excuse the mess in the pictures. It is too cold to work in the garage up here in the northwest, so this project took over our entire kitchen and dining room. We built these frame and panel-style doors using Ana's plans from the mom-plex bathroom vanity! We are so excited because we spent about $100 including paint and have plenty of leftover materials for the drawers next week!
These are the original cabinets in our 75 year old house and they were in serious need of rehab. We even contemplated ripping them out and using Ana's cabinet plans to build new ones but after we removed the shelves, the carcass of the cabinets were still in good shape. We filled, sanded, painted and built these new amazing doors that I'm seriously losing my mind over. They are so beautiful and I don't think I could have ordered something better. Maybe better made but how sweet is it to save all that money by building them yourselves?
We'll post drawer pictures after we get those finished up and hopefully have a clean kitchen at that point. :)
Thanks Ana! Our home is becoming truly special with the skills we learned from you!
This was my very first DIY wood working project and I'm very pleased with the final result. I learned a lot along the way and after completing the TV table, felt confident enough to make a matching coffee table and side table.
This is a great project for a novice DIYer.
I Purchased Kitchen cabinet handles to use for the ribbon so that the girls could put their bows on there I also got 1 inch wheels 2 of them with breaks on them from amazon. Between the vinyl letters and added bonus I spent about 110$
My variation of the hall closet. Dark stained bench and top shelf, it is taller (5'6") and skinnier (30") and doesn't include the venerated X's.
Jeffrey Knotts of Black Boots Woodworks
I've built two of these based off the Ana-White plans. I tweaked them a little bit to accomodate the wood that I had available as well as the space that the table was going. I built this one for a customer and they needed an exact width...so I cut it back to just 3 drawers.
I documented the whole build here;
http://tommyandellie.com/index.php/2012/02/21/bailey-console-table-remi…
My older one with 4 drawers can be found here;
http://tommyandellie.com/index.php/2011/11/02/bailey-console-table/
We followed the 4x4 Truss Beam Table instructions but changed the overall dimensions to account for our narrow space that is a thoroughfare through our house. We made the table 29" x 65". This was our first furniture construction project and we are very pleased with the results.
We loved the idea of making two of the 2x2 playhouses featured on this blog and adding a 17" riser below to add more of a loft feel in our basement. The riser really adds something special. [We designed the riser ourselves].
We resized the houses to accommodate adults as well as children, so the space can be used flexibly as a playhouse, reading space, or just a hideaway for kids and adults alike. The house as we designed it is 70" tall (5.8 feet). We also utilized a recessed wall in the basement, so the footprint feels just right for the room.
After building the frames, we painted them white and custom-designed curtains for them. We wanted the curtains to feel like walls and define the space. The curtains are attached via buttonholes that we sewed into the finished curtain. They are looped over small cup hooks screwed into the frame.
We left the risers in their natural color without stain and simply sealed them using a beeswax and olive oil DIY sealant that I've used on a handful of other projects in the past.
Overall, we feel so happy with this space. It's just what we imagined it to be. It feels so special and set apart :).
I hate the mess of my garage. If there was just one more room for photos, I would show you what I was working with: a piece of plywood propped on two saw horses, with loads of supplies taking up every last inch of space. I was beginning to wonder why I didn't want to go into the garage, what I hoped would be my haven after a crazy day of singing the ABC's with my 3 year old and giving chemo treatments to my 6 year old with leukemia.
Then it dawned on me: I'm not organized!!! I start to get the shakes if things are not in their place. So, I started to dream up my perfect work bench, one place where I can store my main necessities.
I don't work well without plans. Of course it dawned on me too late to contact Ana herself to help me. But when I thought about it, I realized that it was basically a box. Just start with a box. So I checked out a few of Ana's plans that started out as a box and went from there. By the way, I couldn't have gotten through 1% of this project without Ana and the inspiration and encouragement from her site. Love you!! Anyway, I knew I wanted drawers on one side and shelves on the other. As I went along I decided to add a few contained shelves on the side of the bench to store the wood glue, wax, and other smaller items. On the other side of the bench (because I HAVE to make use of all space), I saved the cans from some crushed tomatoes I had used to make a sauce, and used some hose clamps to keep them in place. I keep all my brushes in these babies. I made the shelves adjustable and decided that looking at the back of the drawers was undesirable, so I purchased a $5 curtain and stapled it in place to hang behind the shelves hiding the drawers -- so girly! Gotta have that little feminine flavor to my work bench (as if the color didn't do it enough).
The drawers were the biggest hassle because I made a very bad builder mistake. I rushed them and I don't even think I took out a square once to make them. Bad builder. Bad, bad, BAD BUILDER!! I was tired and was in such a hurry to finish this so I could get organized and the shakes would stop. So, in the end, the drawers don't work perfectly and I'm constantly reminded of my shortcut every time I open them. (And every time my husband reminds me as he helped me with the drawer slides and cursed the whole time.) Each drawer is trimmed out differently as I was just using the different wood and choices I had laying around. The knobs were a great flea market find at 25 cents a pop.
In the end, I love her. I'm organized, or as organized as I can be right now. Besides my power tools, I have everything at my fingertips. And if the garage becomes a mess again, I know it won't be because my stuff doesn't have a home. And with this paint color, I'll be able to find her no problem. :) Oh yea, that is a beer on top. I deserved it.
Sun, 04/29/2012 - 22:53
Totally awesome and I LOVE that you have some color in the garage! A little inspiration while you are building. Beautiful!
Wed, 05/02/2012 - 09:32
Wow, with so much on your plate with the little ones.... my heart goes out to you with the chemo treatments. This workbench is AWESOME!!! I may have to copycat you with it... love all the storage you have and how pretty it turned out. The different scraps and pieces came together Great. At least you have an excuse for your drawers not turning out perfect. I still can't get mine to work properly even when I use a square :) All part of the hobby though right, learning with each one! Great work...keep it up :)
Thu, 05/03/2012 - 18:54
I do love it. It's nice that it's on wheels so I can get it out of the way if need be. No more sawhorses with a piece of cumbersome plywood. Building/up-cycling/refinishing is my therapy. It probably saves us $150/hour with a psych. :)
Sat, 06/16/2012 - 09:40
So I am confused on how you used both plans. Could you give a little more detail and instruction? I would love to make this particular piece. What are the measurements of your piece, as well? Thanks for sharing!!!
In reply to So Pretty! by Sharon W (not verified)
Wed, 07/11/2012 - 13:59
Hi Sharon. What I meant by highlighting Ana's plans, is that I learned I just needed to start with a box. As for the size, I made it 48" wide, 31" deep, and 37" tall. Since it was custom, I could make it any size I wanted. I wanted it to be comfortable to work on, so no bending over. Also, it had to be small enough to move around the garage as needed.
Sun, 08/05/2012 - 18:34
I need a cutting table for my sewing room and have been looking for something big (have to be able to lay out at least a yard of fabric) with some concealed and some not so concealed storage. This is it!
Loved this plan from the time Ana posted it long ago, but never had a need to build one until we moved into a new house.
I followed the plan entirely as instructed, except for the faux 2 drawer feature. It went together great. The most difficult part is making sure you keep everything square and you'll definitely want a kreg jig (I have a kreg jig jr and it works great) to keep the assembly as easy as possible.
I built it over the course of one weekend, but it took most of the next week to stain and apply polyurethane. Lots of drying time involved.
I spent around $50 total to build and another $16 for polyurethane and the handle. The stain I already had, but that would be another $10 or so, if you needed to purchase.
The direct link to the plan: http://ana-white.com/2011/01/farmhouse-bedside-table
Great project and plan to do do a second one for the other side of the bed.
In reply to Wow by mattmasulis
Fri, 03/27/2015 - 06:33
Thanks! It's a Dark Walnut Stain from Minwax with a semi-gloss poly finish on top.
This was quite the project. It was the most fun and rewarding of the handful I've done so far. It took quite a while but now that it's finished I'm very satified. I would like to eventually build an extra large dresser that matches.
***The one thing that I am not totally happy with on this project are the euro drawer slides. They are loud and they have a cheap chinsy feel to them. When I build drawers in the future, I will either spend more and get fancy slides, or make some simple waxed wood slides for a more premium feel.
Made for daughter’s first apartment.
Rusty O.
I took shop class for a quarter in eighth grade, but other than that, I have never constructed anything out of wood! I decided to pick a small project first and loved the Kid's Storage Step Stools I saw people making. My husband taught me how to use the circular saw and jigsaw and I finished building this in about 2 hours.
