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This was for our mudroom, obviously. I wanted to use up some ply that I had ill-advisedly had the store cut into quarters, so each of my storage compartments are 48" long, supported in the center by that divider piece you see in the second pic.

The beauty of DIY of course, is that you can modify everything. But if you do, you spend a week on a 4-hour project (but you do use up a lot of scraps). I cut nearly every piece out of plywood with the exception of the 1x3 front legs. It was time-consuming, but I think it was worth it as it allowed me to impulsively deepen the storage from 3.5" to 5". It also meant I only had to purchase the cedar, one pine 1x3, and a hinge.

The top is bare cedar boards which we'll allow to weather naturally. The hinge is the longest piano hinge they had at the blue store at about $7. The white is just a base Behr ultra with no tint because it's classic and we already had it.

This TV stand was built from the plans of the Planked wood sideboard. I made it a bit shorter only 6ft and made shelving in the middle instead of another storage space. Each side has a shelf in the middle and we store DVDs in them along with some of our childrens puzzels and games. I stained it Walnut and love the look of the rough wood. All of our guest cant believe that its homemade and not purchased from a store. 

Absolutely love my new shoe cabinet! Saw the original plan on Pinterest in distressed black. Downloaded and asked hubby if he would build this for me and he did! I finished it with Colonial White oil base paint and distressed it with sand paper, hammer, steel wool and paint spatters.

One of the coolest features .... the knobs which are wooden thread spools cut in half.

The cabinet holds 11 pair of shoes and 3 pair of short boots.

Finished with walnut stain and Million Dollar Red. Wood is all reclaimed from local deconstruction company.

I built this bed in about a week.  It was a big project but very rewarding. The plans I had from Ana White were easy to follow and detailed, and having the shopping list and cut list was very helpful.  It was pretty straightforward with mostly right angles.  It may be a bit much for a beginner, but someone with some basic woodworking and building skills should have no trouble.  It’s very heavy and needs to be assembled in pieces.  The roof shingles were made by using 1/4 plywood cut into rectangular squares and painted black and stapled on.  It was a nice touch. The pergola was also a nice addition, as was the staircase with bookcase.  I bought a remnant from a carpet store for 10 and tacked it in the stairs and it’s very comfortable. The drawers were a lot of work but again worth it.  Our now 4 year old is in love with her bed! 

My 7 year old nephew, Jack loves the San Francisco Giants, so my brother and I decided to create an AT & T Park bed using Ana's Camp Loft Bed plans as a guide. I started with the scoreboard to hang above the bed. The teams are all hand painted and hung with Velcro so Jack can arrange the teams according to their current league standings. He can also decide who he wants to play and change the teams on the actual scoreboard, which is painted with chalkboard paint.

The bed was created using Ana's plans. We added brick facade columns to make it look more like AT & T Park. The columns have shelves in the back built in for storage. I found some great Giants stickers and added them as well.

Under the bed, I built a locker using Ana's Small Locker Cabinet plans for Jack to hang and store all of his athletic gear.

This was a collective project that involved my Husband, son and I. We built two of these and modified the bed by going away with the footboards being that these beds were for our teenage sons. We also had to cut the wood for the headboards to 37 1/2" in order to make them fit with the split ring hangers. They LOVE their new beds! And so do we! They are so cool! 

I built these shelves with my husband while super pregnant out of scraps I had leftover from the Dream Dollhouse and painted them with some leftover paint from another project. We used a finish nail gun and they went together really quickly.

If I was going to do it again I would skip the top rail. It makes big books more likely the lean out over the edge unless you keep if full.

I had an empty space in my Mudroom so I decided to build an armoire (fancy name for cabinet) to store the vacuum and some other items.

Check out my blog for more details:

http://www.woodworkingfourdummies.com/blog/armoire-diy

thanks,

Ian

We just moved into a Victorian farmhouse, circa 1875. The kitchen is being remodeled to include a 6 foot island and we needed some stools for it. So I plan to make either three or five more and finish them in flat black paint with satin poly to seal. Pretty quick and easy build and I think I'll change the back rest slightly on each one, just for fun!

Modified slightly from the Rhyan Console design to include glass front doors so I could display some books and have remote access to my electronics for the TV.

A gift for a dear friend that I wanted to show how much I appreciate her and how happy we were for her beautiful family. She requested a lighter finish but had no idea what we were doing until the day. Everyone loved it and her beautiful daughter "slept" in this every night beside her and her husband's bed. The hardest part really was making the rockers. I hadn't done much with the kreg jg plugs at the time but I would definitely recommend using them. 

I changed it by adding the top mitered slats and stained it with Thompson clear water seal. Used "A" grade cedar from a local mill. Thank you so much for the inspiration. 

Bob Johnson

Lebanon, TN

We modified the ladder that was suggested.  Ours is removable and angled so our little guy doesn't get too adventurous without supervision.  We also added a "roof" to his log cabin.    

I recently added wood frames and trim to the windows in my bedroom. I simply finished nailed 1 x boards over the drywall frame, and trimmed out with casing. Unfortunately, I did have a lot of leftover scrap since I had to buy 8ft boards and my windows are only 5ft tall. I would recomend buying 6ft boards unless your windows are wider/taller than 6 ft.You can read a more detailed description on my blog http://pneumaticaddict.blogspot.com