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Farmhouse Table
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Lots of fun on this one
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Main closet bench and shelving
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We have a 10 ft closet in our entry which offered plenty of space but had three closet sliding doors. Only one could be open at a time. Had two upper shelves and a rod. Wanted to get things more organized and have a place to get shoes on. Always give my 1 and 3 year old easier access to dress/undress themselves. First attempt at building anything. As I went along changed things based on materials and to get around issues with our closet or my skill level/available tools.
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Horizontal Murphy Bed
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We are remodeling our 3 bedroom house into a 4 bedroom. In doing so, my youngest is getting the smaller room. We decided to go with a Murphy bed to allow more play time space. I do not particularly like the fact that this bed doesn’t sit off the ground but overall love the simplicity of making it. We turned it horizontal and just love the overall product. I can mot wait to make something else from this site!
Tams
Full Toy box bookcase
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We knew we wanted to make this bookcase as soon as we saw it! I plan to put baskets and toys in it later, but for right now all books. The only difference to the original plan is that we put some plywood behind the bottom two shelves so that we could have a backing when we do use toys. My three year old loves to sit and go through all the board books at the bottom and clean up is a snap!
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Sat, 03/03/2012 - 05:36
Great job, I plan on putting
Great job, I plan on putting a back on mine as well, just haven't gotten around to it. It's in the basement, cut, ready to stain...
My first piece of furniture that I built!
This was my first attempt at building furniture. I decided to make new nightstands for my wife and I. I used the bedside table plans, and they worked excellent. I used poplar hardwood for the material. I stained it using Minwax Special Walnut, and I used Minwax Satin Polyurethane. I am currently working on the second one, which will be my wife's (she said she wanted me to build mine first, so that if I messed it up, hers wouldn't be messed up, lol). Mine turned out good, I am very happy with it. Thanks for the plans! After the next nightstand is built, I would like to build a matching triple dresser...
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Then two coats of Minwax Special Walnut
Then 3 coats of Minwax Spray on Satin Polyurethane
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Fancy X Desk
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I stuck to the plans for the most part. The only change I made was to add an additional 2x6 to the top to make it a bit deeper. I added a few inches to the bottom/top 2x4 on the base to support the additional depth of the top.
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Rustic Farmhouse Queen frame
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I’m absolutely loving the outcome of this design. The plans were perfect and so much fun. I used it as a welcome home gift for my wife and she said it was the best gift ever. Literally my favorite project. Thank you Ana
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Adirondack Chair with Burned Wood Finish
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I used a Bernzomatic handheld propane torch to burn the wood. The technique really enhances the wood grain. I then applied two coats of Urethane Spar Varnish, allowing 30 minutes between coats.
Patrick
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Rustic bench
Fun little bench to make for our front porch. We liked it so much we built 2 more smaller ones one for each of the kids to go with mommy and daddy's bench. Bought all the material at the home store and decided to use stain since it was going to stay outside. Used the same method with all my other projects sanded using 180 than 220 grit, wood filled all the cracks and the Kreg Jig made this simple.
Chelsea Bunk Bed System
My dad and I built these beds for my 7-year-old daughter for Christmas. We followed the plans almost completely, with a few tweaks of our own. We didn't feel that the decorative feet would be very stable, so we just continued the length of the bookshelf and desk all the way to the floor. We put a piece of 1/4 in. MDF on top of the slats to help support the memory foam mattress. We also stapled canvas to the underside of the top bunk to hide the slats. I didn't want a headboard or foot board on the lower bunk (toe-stubber!), so instead of building the matching Chelsea bottom bunk, we just made a simple platform bed. We added magnet boards to each side of the desk. I liked the idea of magnets better than bulletin boards. Since this plan didn't include a ladder, we built the ladder from the Loft Bed plan. The bed had some significant wobble to it, so we attached it to the wall. Took ALL of the wobble out and it is very solid and secure now. I'm very pleased with how these beds turned out and my daughter loves them as well!
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Chevron end table
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I loved the look of this table and wanted to try something a little bit different.
The chevron detail was made using painters tape, off white spray paint, then then edging the chevrons with a gold Sharpie
Outdoor Sectional
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Just put the final stain on the outdoor sectional and I'm so psyched at how great it came out. Believe it or not, this is a very beginner piece (just 2x4s, NO pocket hole screws, all straight cuts- x ends optional) and anyone can do it with a circular saw, some clamps, a sander and an impact drill. Just takes some planning ahead of time. I bought the 2x4 wood and the cushions off Facebook Marketplace to save money so the total cost of this whole sectional was only $140 (wood, cushions, stain, screws). If you price similar new wood sectionals (U shaped, 9 seats) they're well over $1500+. Now, my sectional isn't as perfect as a brand new sectional but I do feel way cooler for saving a ton of money and doing it myself. In all it only took 4 days, working no more than 2.5 hours per day from start to finish to build this and stain it. It's made up of three pieces and I finished one piece a day and stained on the last day. You can make it while your toddler naps;-P Or if you had no other distractions you could bang it out in one long day. As for any of Ana's outdoor sectional plans the biggest expense is going to be the cushions. The cheapest new ones I could find were $40 a set (a 25" seat and a back cushion). That would have made this at least $400 in cushions ALONE! So what I did instead and I recommend this for anyone trying to save cost on this project is that I got a whole bunch of cheap and random cushions off Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and then I bought cushion covers off Amazon. https://amzn.to/2BRBeeZ I cut some of the cushions to fit the covers and added stuffing to others.
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I Built Drawer Dividers to Store Water Bottles
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I used the Stick on Drawer Divider tutorial to divide up a drawer for water bottles. The custom drawer dividers allowed me to divide up for different sized water bottles. I used ripped 1/2" plywood for the dividers. Total cost was about $10.
This drawer makes me so happy now!
Princess bed for my princesses
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After about a month of looking for a new bunk bed for my daughters and becoming more frustrated with every new search at the outrageous price and often cheap quality of what's available I decided to look to the web for inspiration to build one myself. It took a little while to work myself up to going for it but man am I glad I did. And I am even more glad I found Ana White's site almost immediately. Her incredibly well written and documented plan for this bed made it not only doable but incredibly fun for me. And it gave me the confidence to create a loft bed for my son from nothing but an idea and dream. Thanks a ton Ana!
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Thu, 06/12/2014 - 11:01
Bottom Mattress?
Hello.....is that another mattress in the bottom portion of the playhouse? If so, how did you get it in there? I wanted to try and put another mattress in the bottom but couldn't figure out an easy way to get it in and out......
Play Kitchen
The painting took me a long time but it was fun learning all the skills required to make this project. I added a little microwave oven under the sink and a utensil holder along one side. The wood construction was quick - the painting knobs, and jig cut-outs took a little longer!
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Nightstand with barnwood stripe
Built from Ana White plan. Gray barnboard and red barnwood inlay.
Farmhouse Dining Bench with back support - 3 seats version
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I made this bench for my Farmhouse dining table, modified for 3 seats.
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Vintage Butcher Block Vanity
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Use the general idea of the kitchen island plans. I had an old butcher block work table top from June 1952. I wanted to cut it down and make a bathroom vanity. We used cedar legs for the posts and shelves.
Kristi
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The salsa console with a twist
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We took the plans for the salsa console and modified it by leaving the bottom of the console open. We painted it a bright white and stained the top.
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Mon, 03/12/2012 - 15:13
Very professional
You did a very professional looking job. I would never have guessed that you didn't buy it.
Play Stand
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I saw this at the perfect time for deciding to make one for my niece for Christmas. It was too cute of an idea to not make!! She turns 3 at the end of January and it's perfect-sized for her. From what I hear, she threw a tantrum when her parents told her she had to stop playing with it because it was naptime! I'm hoping that she will share with her brother when he's older (he's about 7mos now) and they can play with it together.
I apologize for the lack of pictures, I got the buntings done about one day before we had to pack it up to head out for the holidays, so there wasn't much time for pictures!
For the hutch part, I attached each side with bolts and wing nuts so that it could be knocked down for transport (especially since we have smallish cars and had to drive an hour to gift it, and the recipient had to drive 2 hours back to their house!). I added some holes just under the dowel (lining up with the holes in the base when knocked down) so that it could be connected again as a shorter version for transport. This actually worked out pretty well and you can almost use the dowel as a handle when it's like that. The only issue I ran into with that was once I put the lower velcro on for the theater curtains, they would hit when trying to collapse it and we wound up losing one in transport.
Buntings weren't too hard, but I've been sewing much longer than I've been building! I did have some issues getting the theater curtain to lay right.