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Couldn’t find any barn door hardware that would fit the console, at least for a reasonable price. Made my own with aluminum strips and steel rollers, spray painted with a textured black paint.

I desperately needed a podium to help me stay organized while I lectured in the classroom. After learning that none where available at my school or even in the county, I decided to "give it a go" and tried making one myself. This is what I came up with! You can access a step-by-step tutorial at http://sawgrasshome.com/

My Niece is 13 and into homemade hair bows, ribbons and jewelry. When I asked her mom what I could make for Colleen for her birthday? We settled upon three of Anna's $10 buck shelves and as a surprise a Jewelry cabinet with Elastic ribbons across front for her bows to be place on.

It was a big hit!

Thank you for your inspiration!

Best Regards,

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Bob C.

Fun project 

Got a new (and larger, King sized) mattress this summer, and wanted to have a real bed/headboard for the 1st time ever instead of just using one of those metal frames. Looked online for awhile, and somehow stumbled on this site - and so so glad I did, it saved me tons of $$! I really liked the farmhouse beds from PB, so decided to modify the plans from here to look more like that one - with a solid headboard and footboard (I used plywood for it).

It took me a long time to finish because I did all the sanding by hand, and used a hand saw to make cuts that I didn't get done when I bought the wood (the only power tool I own is a drill - and prior to this I'd only ever used it for drilling to hang shelves on the wall).

I've definitely got the building bug now, and have so many ideas for other projects I want to tackle. Thank you so much for this site and all the inspiration! Even though its not absolutely perfect, I absolutely love my new bed!

My wife and I needed space in our kitchen to store various items. This cabinet works perfectly for that purpose.

Needed a good sturdy coffee table so now I've got one. Joined each 2x6 for the top together with pocket holes and it's solid. A lot of fun to build.  

I used the basic ideas of your project but sized it to the wall in the bathroom.  My first hardwood project.  Pretty pleased.

This bed took us a long time to make as my husband and I worked on it on weeknights and weekends when our daughter napped. We spent a lot of time making the plan/design, picking our materials and determining how to assemble and finish it. Thankfully, we actually finished it (completely) the day before we ended up having our second child - just in time!

We used the measurements of the Lydia Toddler Bed but our design was based more on the Lydia Daybed/Queen Bed. For instance, we used 1x3s and 1x2s for the legs instead of the 2x2s in the Toddler plans. We also used a solid piece of the Purebond formaldehyde free plywood to get a clean look for the headboard/footboard pieces.

I seen the Reclaimed-Wood Headboard, Queen Size plan and thought hey i can do that. Well this is the result and I'm happy with it. I did do it a little different like routering a slot for the boards to fit down in. I wood burned the image and stained the inside of it to look like that. It didn't take to long to make the most time was spent sanding and staining.

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!