Community Brag Posts

With the third baby set to arrive in several months, I needed to take back the crib from my youngest and consolidate the girls living space. After scouring the Anna White site and looking dreamily at plans and general building instructions for several months, these beds are what I came up with. A combination of the Lydia and Farmhouse beds, I made alterations for the wood I had on hand and the final product I envisioned- complete with decorative trim and even wallpaper! My girls love them!

I built ledge shelves for our kitchen using reclaimed wood I painted teal, then silver, then flat black (Napoleon).

Love having them. :)

Complete a long waited honey do.

Hi friends!
 

Jen Woodhouse here from the House of Wood. 

Today I'm sharing with you the building details for this beautiful Rustic Industrial Bar Cart.

This DIY bar cart has a lot of neat features: a bottom shelf tall enough to hold full size wine bottles and decanters, a hanging stemware rack, and a removable serving tray on top! What more could you need? 

Be sure to tag me @jenwoodhouse if you share photos of your build on social media. I'd love to see it!

You can get all the details for this build on my website www.jenwoodhouse.com.

I just made one of the shelves instead of two like the plan calls for. It's painted a dark brown to match the bunk bed that I previously made for my girls. Mine was a little more expensive because I used 1x12's instead of plywood.

Stove Top Cover for more counterspace. 

First project for actual furniture ever. This stuff is better than a good book that you can't put down. I am so addicted!

This was a family summer project. I built the bed and furniture...my wife and daughter did all the painting and picked out the accent pieces!

My wife, grandchildren, and I have spent the last 8 months building 2 bunk beds from the site.  First we build this cabin version for my grandsons and then we built the sweet pea version for my granddaughters. I thank Ana White for using this website to enable amateur wood workers like myself a tool that enabled us to create a great piece of furniture that they use every day and collect childhood memories and know how much they are loved.  Thank you Ana White.

Been a while since I had time to actually build anything worth posting about! My wife wanted some items for her Kindergarten classroom this year, so built several items, most inspired by the Farmhouse family.

When Ana posted the plans for the Doll Farmhouse Bed I quickly started thinking of all the little girls I could build this for. I ended up building 4 of them. The first one was definitely my learning curb, the other three went a lot smoother and just looked better!

This is our second Ana White project, our first was the loft bed which turned out great! With this project we used 16" wide boards for the extra room for backpacks and it fit perfectly in our space at the end of the hall.  We used Beadboard for the back panel and painted it with Valspar interior semi gloss paint I got off the reject shelf at Lowes at $10 for a gallon! This is my new favorite piece of furniture in the house!

DIY grid mirror. Used exact plan. 

Well I decided for my first project/projects to make chairs for my girls. They turned 2 and 3 last month. I also made a couple of chairs for friends of ours who have twin boys that also turned 3. Once I got the hang of it making the chairs didn't take to long but painting seemed to take forever. But I love how all the chairs turned out.

Two tone 3 ft long slat bench

Tryde coffee table made from a combination of pine and recycled wood from old pallets.

This was my second project. It took a little longer than I wanted because I don’t have a table saw :( I didn’t trust Lowe’s to cut the plywood for me since it needed to be perfectly square and they only guarantee their cuts to be within 3/4" so I had to wait to go to my dad’s house to borrow his, but other than that it went pretty fast!

I kept to the plans for the most part, but I added some trim and cabinet doors. I knew that at my house the inside of that cabinet would be a hot mess in a matter of days, so I wanted to have a way to cover it up! I just used 1x4’s to frame the doors and leftover scrap 1/4" plywood from the back for the faces. I used a router to rabbet out the doors so I could inset the plywood instead of it just sticking off of the back. They turned out pretty good considering they were my first and I had never used a router before! Overall, I am really happy with this one! I’ll be making the matching pieces this weekend - the coffee table, end table, and entry table.