Simple DIY Desks by Bob The Builders Wife
"I built these from @anawhitediy plans online. Love how they came out. Super cute style too. I've been selling them online to support my DIY habit." Monica
"I built these from @anawhitediy plans online. Love how they came out. Super cute style too. I've been selling them online to support my DIY habit." Monica
My daughter wanted her room redone for her tenth birthday. We decided to go big with Ana's storage bed plans. I had so much fun building this and really learned a lot. It took me three months to find enough spare time to finish it, but it was worth the wait.
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 19:24
You did a really great job building the storage bed. I am in the process of building this same bed for my teenage son, only I'm not building the towers. Finding enough time to actually get a project finished is nearly impossible when you only have a few hours here and there! Your daughter will love all the extra storage space as she gets older.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 05:19
Thank you very much! For such a large project, and only the second piece of furniture I have made, I couldn't be happier with the results.
Saw this project on here and immediately knew this was something I needed to build for my daughter who had been standing on toys to reach her light switch as she is now enjoying turning on and off the lights in her room. Took some creative license and made the treads out of multiple boards rather than the single 6" piece from the plan. Also use pocket hole joinery to add to the stability of the project. This is very sturdy and can hold well over 200lbs. Already have many orders from friends.
I followed the plans pretty closely (please note, the visual graphic of cuts is incorrect - the panel fronts should be 17 3/4" which is tells you WAY later in the plans). I trimmed it out with 1/4" mdf to give it a shaker-style look.
Dresser created for my parents.
My wife wanted a couple of barn doors for the 2 smaller rooms in the house. This is the first one.
For the inner panel I used 12 x 12mm x 140mm tongue & groove boards glued back to back, 6 each side with one of them ripped in half with one half on each side so I had a square edge on the outside.
For the frame I used 89mm x 19mm pine glued back to back.
Finished with Cabots clear finish
We built this farm house bed but had to modify it. Im in the military and wanted a king size frame that was able to be torn down and moved easy. If you look i used brackets and long 1/2 bolts to attach the side rails to the head board and footboard. I also made foot board legs 30" then lined the 2x10 side rails up with the bottom of the slat boards on the foot board. This makes the actual mattress sit very high.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 02:36
Hello,great job on this bed. Its very nice. I would like to get the plans/dementions on how you made this so I will beable to take it apart as well since my husband works for the railroad and were always moving. Thank You!
Built this bed for my five year old daughter. In hindsight I might have rounded out the door for entrance / exiting.
We got years of memories and enjoyment out of this bed.
I made this simple Bunk bed shelf so all the stuff my son stored on the headboard, wouldn't keep falling off. It was easy to make and I painted it while working on another project. and I used spray paint to get the orange on a little easier!
Mon, 10/21/2019 - 19:12
My daughter asked for a shelf for her bunkbed—something to hold her glasses, IPad, and retainer case. And maybe a book or two. Thanks to Ana White and free plans...I made the shelf that others have made. thanks!
Slowly replacing all of the furniture in my home with things that I build. I used pallets for the structure, maple flooring for the facing, some scrap from shutter doors for the doors, 1×2 for the trim and adhesive tiles from the local ReStore for the top and around the fireplace insert. Perfectly fits a 65" tv.
I built the faux fireplace from your plans and wanted to share it with you. Thank you and God bless you. - Joe
We couldn't find a mid-height, double loft bed for our daughter that we liked that wasn't ridiculously expensive, so we decided to build one ourselves! I found some awesome plans on this website and played around with a few until I created exactly what we wanted. I mostly used the Full Size Farmhouse Bed plan but also used some aspects from the loft bed plan for the guardrails and the bottom rails. Then we went out and bought the wood and started building! This is really the first thing that I have ever built (my husband has never built anything either) and it turned out so well. I think it is gorgeous and I am so proud of it! This is my first brag post so forgive me if I am doing it wrong! Lots of instructions on how I built it below, so scroll down if you just want to see the pictures.
I used Google Sketch-Up to build the bed first and to tweak the plans. Below I will explain some of the changes that I made.
- I actually did not trim anything off of the ends of the head board or foot board as shown in the Full sized bed plans. I just built the bed to be as wide as 8 x 1x8s and adjusted the plan accordingly. I figured that if I had to climb up there to change the sheets, the extra room around the mattress would be appreciated. The 1x8s that I used were 7 1/4" wide.
- I bolted a 2x4 to the 4x4 posts right under the foot board and headboard panels for the side rail supports to sit on. I wanted it to be extra strong as the bed was going to be up high and I figured the bed would take a lot of abuse from the kids.
- The siderails were made from a 2x10 glued and screwed to a 2x4. The 2x4 sits on top of the 2x4s at the bottom of the headboard and footboard panels and is screwed into the 4x4 posts. The 2x10s are also screwed into the 4x4 posts.
- Since the mattress would be sitting up higher on the headboard and footboard than in the original plans, I added 3" to the length of the 1x8s used in the panels.
- I had planned to make a slatted base out of 1x4s to support the mattress so I also placed 2 x 2x4s on edge lengthwise down the middle of the bed to support the slats. Those 2x4s are also supported on top of the 2x4s at the bottom of the head and foot boards. The inexpensive 1x4s here are very rough on the one side which I did not want touching the mattress or for the kids to get splinters from while playing under the bed. The nice ones were super expensive at around $18 for a 14' board. It turned out to be less expensive and much less work to buy a queen sized slatted bed base from the big Blue and Yellow inexpensive furniture store here and trim the ends of the boards to length with my mitre saw. n even bigger bonus is that the wood is already finished and didn't require anything further than screwing it down to the supports.
- I made the height of the area under the bed 45" (just tall enough for DD to stand under for now) and adjusted the length of the 4x4 posts accordingly.
- I assembled the bed into different large pieces before bringing it inside. The headboard and footboard are 2 solid sections that cannot be taken apart. The side pieces are made to be able to come off if we ever need to move the bed.
- I couldn't find any really good instructions anywhere on how to build a ladder or to change ladder plans to suit our needs so I built it after the bed was built. I found it easier to envision this way and to figure out the angles. I build the ladder out of 2x3s.
I have the Google Sketch-Up plans for the bed (minus the ladder) if anyone is interested, but as I said before, I am not an experienced builder so I do not think I should post them here. Maybe someone can use them as a base to create their own plan with though. I found Sketch-up to be a very valuable tool as I actually "built" the bed virtually before ever touching the wood. It helped me figure out what order to put things together in and also allowed me to perfect my design before making any cuts. It still took many trips to and discussions with people at my local Orange store to figure out what kind of fasteners to use and where to use each type. I brought printouts of my plans so that they would be able to help me better.
A couple of finishing touches that I did:
- I sewed some pretty curtains and hung them from aircraft cable and eye hooks under the bed.
- The back of her dresser was exposed under the bed and did not look very nice so I created a magnetic wall by screwing some inexpensive metal sheets meant for ducts to the back of it. I have temporarily covered all of the exposed edges with pink patterned duct tape but plan to trim it out at some point.
Hope you like it!
Thu, 12/01/2011 - 05:27
I can not believe you tackled this for your very first project! You should be so proud as it came out beautiful! Your daughter must be thrilled!!!
Fri, 05/03/2019 - 04:15
Hello DirtSquirt,
My granddaughter just asked me to loft her queen bed and loves your plan. Is it still possible to get the plans you made up so I can modify for queen. Thank you
tomjnc5
Sun, 12/11/2011 - 01:34
I have been googling some many website for a full size loft bed and came across this one at 4am Sunday. Can you please send me the mesurements and plan for this bed. I would love to build it just the way you did.
Fri, 01/05/2018 - 21:53
hi I know this is a old post but can I get the plans? My husband needs the direct directions. [email protected] also look into we transfer, you can upload big documents up there and just post the link then people don’t have to bug you all the time they can just download it. Hope that helps you.
thanks for your time.
Thu, 12/29/2011 - 14:34
I LOVE this bed. I do not know how to use google sketch-up but we are wanting to build the farmhouse into a twin loft bed and the plans you used would definitely help us figure out how. If you could send me your plans Id really appreciate it and Ill somehow figure out how google sketch-up works. Thank you so much for sharing!
Fri, 05/11/2012 - 15:04
Can you please send me your plans we are trying to do almost this exact thing for our twins!!!
Thu, 05/24/2012 - 16:22
Could I get a copy of the plans. This will give him more space without having to get a smaller bed. [email protected]
Fri, 12/30/2011 - 06:44
Will you please send me a copy of the plans as well? email is [email protected]. Thanks
Fri, 12/30/2011 - 11:48
This is wonderful! Can you send me the plans? Thank you sooo much!
Wed, 01/04/2012 - 13:15
I love your project!! Could I get a copy of the plans as well? Thanks!
Wed, 01/04/2012 - 13:17
Could I get a copy of the plans as well? Thanks! Sorry forgot to include email address it's: on3003in2002yahoo.com
Thu, 01/05/2012 - 21:53
I did send plans to those who included an address, but I'm not sure how to get them to the rest of you!
Fri, 03/02/2012 - 21:15
Sun, 03/25/2012 - 18:28
Hi,
Could you please send me the google sketch up plans? I.m looking to build a loft bed for my 11 year old daughter. Please email it to [email protected].
Tue, 06/26/2012 - 11:10
Hi DirtSquirt,
I'm digging your bed and would like the plans if you would be willing to send them.
Thank you in advance!
In reply to Plans Sent by DirtSquirt
Wed, 05/20/2015 - 00:18
Please send the plans i am dying to try this bed.
Thu, 01/19/2012 - 10:27
Any chance I could get your Google Sketchup plans too? We are moving soon and want to do something like this for both of our kids. Thank you! [email protected]
Wed, 01/25/2012 - 08:22
I LOVE THIS!! Can i please get the plans sent to me as well?
[email protected]
Thank goodness for your post on here, we are planning to start building on Friday and I couldnt have found it at a better time! =)
Sat, 02/04/2012 - 17:36
Could you please send us your plans? Our email is [email protected]
You did amazing, thank you for sharing what you've done! Our daughter is SO excited!! :)
Sat, 02/04/2012 - 17:37
Could you please send us your plans? Our email is [email protected]
You did amazing, thank you for sharing what you've done! Our daughter is SO excited!! :)
Sat, 02/04/2012 - 17:49
Could you please send us your plans? Our email is [email protected]
You did amazing, thank you for sharing what you've done! Our daughter is SO excited!! :)
Sat, 02/04/2012 - 20:05
What an awesome bed! I am trying to build something like this for my 8 year old. Could you sen d me the plans? [email protected] Thanks,
Mon, 02/06/2012 - 06:50
Could you please send these plans to
[email protected] ?
I love it!. I have been looking for loft bed plans that are of mid height for a while.
Thanks!
Mon, 02/06/2012 - 21:15
Congrats on your project! It looks like something that would cost $1000 ++ at any store. I too would like a copy of the plans. I'm envisioning a distressed and stained version for my son. Thanks! [email protected]
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 16:19
Actually just purchased a floor sample loft bed for our son today...having 2nd thoughts because it seems cheap...so I browsed Ana's site...and WOW! This is WAY better - love the design. Am hoping you could please send the plans our way too...we are all so envious! Thanks! [email protected]
Mon, 03/26/2012 - 16:16
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sending the plans so quick. We ended up building the bed, but in twin size for our son....took us about 3 weekends to finish....and it's incredible! I don't know how to post a pic here, but thx so much Marcie....we ended up building a forward facing bookshelf too bc once we got this huge bed in, there was not enough room for his standard bookshelf
Wed, 06/27/2012 - 07:44
I'd like to get the plans for this bed, but DirtSquirt seems to have closed their account or something. I'd appreciate it! [email protected]
Mon, 01/26/2015 - 08:28
im trying to get the plans for this bed, but I guess since this post is so old.. she is no longer looking at the comments!! can you email them to me?? [email protected]
Mon, 01/26/2015 - 08:28
im trying to get the plans for this bed, but I guess since this post is so old.. she is no longer looking at the comments!! can you email them to me?? [email protected]
Mon, 01/26/2015 - 08:28
im trying to get the plans for this bed, but I guess since this post is so old.. she is no longer looking at the comments!! can you email them to me?? [email protected]
Mon, 01/26/2015 - 08:28
im trying to get the plans for this bed, but I guess since this post is so old.. she is no longer looking at the comments!! can you email them to me?? [email protected]
Mon, 12/03/2018 - 08:02
If anyone has these plans, can you please, PLEASE, please message me to email them?! I desperately need these plans for my daughter. Thank You!
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 20:09
This is so beautiful! Can you please send me a copy of the plans? [email protected]
Thanks!
Fri, 02/17/2012 - 10:10
Holy crap! Could I please get the plans sent to me? The bed is nothing short of AMAZING.
Mon, 02/20/2012 - 15:40
This bed is so beautiful, it is exactly what I was looking for. My husband and I have never built anything before, but with the right directions I think that we could totally manage this project. Could I please get a copy of your plans so that we can make this bed for our 13 year old for her birthday. Thank you so much.
Brandi
Mon, 02/20/2012 - 15:46
I would love to have a copy of your plans. This bed would be perfect for my daughter. Thanks so much
Brandi
Mon, 02/20/2012 - 19:47
I have sent the Sketch-Up files to all those who have supplied some way to contact them. I'm sorry that I can't send them to those with no contact info. :( I feel badly if you are waiting for them...
In reply to I have sent the Sketch-Up by Guest (not verified)
Tue, 05/19/2015 - 01:40
Hello,
I am looking for the plans to this bed as well. I created a comment on your post but i am not sure if you received it as the post seems quite old.
I am new to this and there is no way I could build that bed without the plans and instructions.
I am also new to google sketchup I am shocked that you were able to do this plan up in it. I downloaded it and couldn't even draw a line never mind a 3d bed plan?
In reply to I have sent the Sketch-Up by Guest (not verified)
Wed, 05/20/2015 - 00:21
Please send the google sketch plans for the farmhouse loft plans I understand dirt squirt is no longer replying and I desperately want to build the bed for my son
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 07:17
HI-
Your bed is beautiful. If you don't mind, could you send me a copy of your plans? My email address is [email protected].
Thanks!
I used the farmhouse table plans to build a base, and then used an 88" stretch of bowling lane from a bowling alley demo nearby. The sturdy base looks great with the 2" thick maple top. Thanks for a great plan.
Wed, 10/30/2013 - 12:57
Killer table! I really like the use of the bowling alley top!
I built this project with wood out of a 100+ year old house. When the house was tore down they discovered instead of ship lap, some of the walls were covered with wood from old military bomb crates. What a score! The dimensions of this table are 30" tall x 36" wide x 7' long. Now I am going to find some old chairs and recover the cushions with burlap/feedsack. Thanks Ana, your plans have helped me so much.
firepit within a table....great fun!
I followed Ana's plans for this Mug Tree stand! I absolutely adore it! Great plans and cute stand.
I was showing a friend Ana's website and the laundry basket dresser picture appeared and she immediately told me, yes told me, lol, to make one for her. First time working with MDF and had to have my hubby's help because it's way too heavy. For that alone, not sure I'd use it again. Also, two places, it bubbled a little, not sure why. She loved it and wants another. I'm never sure how long these projects take as I don't do it all at one time. It's on the weekends when I have a chance and after work.
My laudry never looked so good! I love these plans from shanty2chic and anawhite. I spent a few days in the garage building, and now, my laundry can be hidden away in any room of my house.
Thanks shanty2chic and anawhite for your excellent plans.
http://www.shanty-2-chic.com/2014/08/diy-laundry-basket-dresser.html
http://www.ana-white.com/2011/04/wood-tilt-out-trash-or-recycling-cabin…
I created two sofas, a love seat and a table by modifying the modern chair. I added a back extension, tipped the back back 10 degrees, and angled the seat platform down a few degrees. Considered doing Adirondack arms, but my wife preferred the rectangular shape. The table is a variation of the 2x4 patio table (base construction similar), but we substituted pine 4x4 legs for the 2x4s, and implemented a 2x6 "picture frame" around Mexican tile on top.
I used pocket screws to attach the arms to the sides, and also to hide screws on the table "picture frame".
All-in-all, I would say this is an elegant-looking patio set that should last quite a while. Very solid, very heavy to move around (my only complaint).
We plan to add some colorful throw pillows.
Wed, 05/13/2020 - 06:38
Like the changes!
What is the angle of the chair/sofa back 110 degrees?
Thanks
In reply to Angle of back? by KeithMatthews
Wed, 05/13/2020 - 06:39
Oops just saw it at the top, sorry.
My husband thought I was joking when I suggested I could build this bed instead of purchasing one. Was my first time building furniture but won't be the last.