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This was an old handmade tool trunk/carpenter's chest my dad gave me many years ago. It had been painted over many times and was quite ugly. I decided to strip it and refinish it. It is made of yellow pine and has many dings and countless nails in it. I think it just adds to the charm. It is now a coffee table.

Pretty much just followed the directions. I used scraps to build this except for the plywood base.

We used the site plans and then added on more trim (front, around the roof and the corner pieces - plus "crown", "baseboard" and "chair rail". 

Loved how easy, Inexpensive and fast this method of customized drawer organizers was to make.

I built this bench to practice making base cabinets. Made the cabinets rather large (24 inches wide and deep). Provides a large, sturdy work area.

Utilicé pino y la madera de dos pallets. Modifiqué el plano original para que entrara en el espacio con el que contaba.

Hi Ana
My granddaughter is starting first grade in the Fall. She needs a desk so I checked out your site and found this simple yet functional project. It worked up in no time. Now Gianna just needs to pick a paint color.

I also found a slight boo boo in the plans. See the marked up cut list.
Thanks for all you do.

We loved the idea of an outoor sectional but was wanting it to be in just two pieces. I modified the plan so we had only two seats and two ottomans.

The cushions are from the big orange store and most of the wood is from their discount rack. (.51 for each board) this saved me quite a bit of money :)

It fits perfect under our covered patio and will get lotsof use when it warms up enough to have pool parties and cook outs.

Thanks Ana for helping make our homes US!

I tailored my pedestal to work with the limited space that I had to work with. I began by "cleating" a 2x4 board to the studs on the back and side walls using 1/4" lag bolts. I then laid a sheet of 3/4" MDF on top and screwed that down to the cleats. Afterwards I built the supporting 2x6 legs underneath and screwed those to the top MDF board. We put a strip of 1x2 across the top-front side to keep the machines from ever "walking off" the pedestal. We then painted and trimmed out the front face and the legs. The wife is very pleased with the project, and loves the added space in our laundry room because we can now store the dirty clothes underneath the machines.

8ft barn door console . Thanks Ana White for you free plans.

David

I decided to make this for our dining room table. I was going to use reclaimed wood but it's a hot commodity a round here these days, so I decided to use pine and let the wife paint and distress it.

My daughters loved this plan. I added one extra thing to the original, making the tray flip up and down.

Thanks for the plan. Happy kids at my house!

Built this bed for our 2-year old daughter - cost was $144 for lumber. Wrote up the whole process on our blog! One note if you are building this: for a regular twin-size mattress, this fits very tight. Making the bed is kind of a pain in the behind. If we were to do the whole thing over again, we would have made the boards on the sides at least 3" longer to make changing the bed a lot easier.

This was one of the easiest projects that I have EVER done. Piece of cake! And the best thing, my wife loves it!

This took about a day to do. It is the perfect height and width for the pottery barn basic square sofas! I plan to make the coffee table as well, but am planning to modify it to make it larger. Ana posted an outdoor couch a while back, I am not sure the name of it, but it also has the x style to it. I built that as well. I just can't get enough Rustic X:)

I love this table so much so that I've built 3 of them total. It is extremely sturdy and a little oversized for a coffee table. Thank you for the plans Ana.