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Thank you for your plans! My husband built it and I finished it with ASCP. So much storage for our living room, keeps down the clutter.

I love this Letter Bin that Lady Goats posted. I made it right away and finally just got it hung up on the wall. The frame came from Michael's for $4 and I had the scrap 1/4" MDF around the garage. My jig saw and I were not getting along that day (should've used a multi-tool) so my cuts are slightly off but I still love it. The caulk finished off the edges nice. This is perfect for our mail coming in the door and helps get even more paper off the table below (first project built...I was so excited to get it done, it made it into the house before sanding or painting). Thanks again Lady Goats for the great plans!

Ah behold the allure of a really good set of plans. :) Famous last words, "it looked a lot easier on paper!"

I happened across the wonderful plans for the Farmhouse Table on this site. Then I saw how it only took Handy Andy a mere 2-3 hours to make his out of reclaimed wood and thinking I would enlist my retired carpenter father to help me, easy peasy, right? Well, that was the plan anyway. :)

A couple of things to note, I purchased new fir wood as it was the most cost effective and frankly the least problematic in regards to finding the straightest boards. I did vary the design in that I added the shelf under the table for both storage as well as a footrest for diners. The design I ended up with was a little more complicated and I tried sanding as much of the boards from the beginning as possible in order to try and cut down on the amount of time spent on my knees later. Yeah, that was a nice thought.

Dad and I followed the plan provided, allowing my modifications for the footrest/shelf and I also made my top 45" wide. (I have another dining table that I had hopes of butting them together for large dinner parties if needed and wanted them relatively the same size). I will say that what I ended up with was an extremely heavy table which I transported home to stain and varathane on my own.

A couple of weeks later, well, the project took more than 2-3 hours (heh) but I am really happy with the results. If I were to do it again, I would probably have stained it a tad darker as this was my first staining/sanding/varathaning project and I took a little too much of the stain off sanding. It's okay, maybe someday I will strip off the varathane and restain it. Then again, it took so much time to do the first time maybe I won't!

A couple questions:
I would like to keep my table outdoors, but would like to add low profile metal feet to protect the wood. Does anyone have a suggestion where to look for heavy duty feet?

Second, any suggestions on how to get the spar varathane off my concrete patio? Yikes!

Thank you Ana for the wonderful plans!

Project took on by my dad and painted by myself and my mom...LOVE how it turned out!

This was a very difficult project for me, getting the backstreet was the hardest part and the doors but it turned out great and I thank you for the plans!

What started out as an innocent shopping trip for a bed, sparked an idea, and led me to Ana White. Next thing I know...I had built a Farmhouse Bed. All by myself! Then I started a blog to document my whole bed building adventure - http://gleeinspired.blogspot.com/2010/10/bed.html.

Thanks Ana! You are truly amazing!

I built this bed in July in anticipation of my two children sharing a room for the first time. They love it. In August, I thought to add the $10 ledges to the frame of the bed when I realized our walls wouldn't support their weight and we're in a rental. I used 1x3s instead of 1x4s those plans called for so the shelves would sit at the same depth as the 2x4s on the frame of the bed.

I wish I knew more about painting soft wood because I don't love how the paint job turned out, though it is green per my son's request. I couldn't deal with more green, hence the ledges are stained.

I love the little alcove this has created. I added curtains and we read stories in there every night. Thank you so much for the inspiration and plans!

Loved this first project! Can't wait to start the TV stand. Thank you Ana White 

Slowly, over the course of 6 months, my grandfather, my mother, my sister and I put this together.  Believe me when I say if I can do it, so can you.  We had to watch a lot of Youtube videos to learn to do the pocket holes, but they are so worth it!! 

This was my first building project using plans from Ana's website. I love it in my entry way where it fits perfectly and fills up an otherwise blank wall.

I wanted to make a headboard for our Queen-sized bed and wanted it to be something I hadn't seen before. I came across a pallet of kitchen cabinet doors at a discount resale shop and knew these would look great! I used a 1/32" spacer between each door so I wouldn't have to sand the edges. If I ever do something like this again, I would do another row to make it just a bit taller to give it a hotel room look.

I slightly modified the Full/Twin storage bed plans to place the top of the cubbies on top of the vertical supports, rather than butted up against them. The cabinets were assembled using glue and pocket holes and screws. The foot board cabinet, being fully exposed, received pocket hole plugs to conceal the holes. I also employed threaded inserts for the cleats and also for attaching the cubbies together. This way, the bed can be assembled/disassembled for easier movement in less than 10 minutes, without leaving any stripped holes or damage. this project used oak and oak plywood througout, and both stain and polyurethane to finish.

This is made from the loft bed plans and has modified steps. 

I used the Large Rustic Bench plan and modified the dimensions to fit under our kitchen island. The height was adjusted to 24" and the length to 48". I used brown pockethole screws to connect all the pieces together and add a decorative touch. The top was covered with 2" foam padding, batting and drapery cloth. A staple gun was used to attach the batting and cloth.

After I got our bed-frame done, it was time to make night stands :)

I used Farmhouse bedside table plan, but I modified it for our needs. In my blog you can see step by step what I did.

We don't have need to drawer so I left them out.I also made them a bit smaller as our bedroom is quite a small. Also I wanted to make it match our bed frame, so I used plywood on sides, not 1x12's. (foot-board in our bed frame is plywood)

http://ourleaningtree.wordpress.com/diy/night-stands/

We were in desperate need of some functional storage in our laundry/mud room. I had been searching for a long while for a solution and almost built another mud room configuration from this site until I saw the 'Smiling Mud Room'. It was EXACTLY what we were looking for! This is the first thing my husband has ever built and I think he did an awesome job. We had to change a few things to fit our room and taste and there are still a few things that need to be finished (hooks, trim pieces and painting). It took him about 20 hrs total to get this far.

Solid garden bench, great for spending afternoons in the shade!

End table with top made from repurposed pallet wood