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I pulled up the ancient green carpet on our patio, gave away our old cheap rusted table and chairs, and built four adult-sized Adirondack chairs from the Home Depot DIH plans and two child-sized ones from the plans in Ana's book. All are painted in Olympic's Schooner. This took forever, but I love the result! A friend dubbed it "the partio." :)

I adjusted from the plan to build the stools to 35 inches and found they remianed very stable! Used Cedar for the seat and aprons, and redwood for the legs and supports. 

Had a Blast making these shelves for my daughters room last Summer! (sorry for just posting now) She had such a long plain wall I thought what a perfect way to take up space but still have places for her toys! She loves them as much as I do!

Before my daughter was born I started planning a play kitchen for her. Last week she turned two and this was my gift to her. I borrowed ideas for details that I had seen on this site from several different kitchens.

Really great project.  Loved doing it!  Thank you Ana

We are poorer than poor which I am sure some of you can relate to. This means I have been looking longingly at Ana's site for more than a year now with no hopes of ever getting anything of my own started. But, I borrowed my brother in laws tools. I started small and sold some stuff and now I am building (still slowly) with 100% money earned by my new craft, talent, and sweat! This means I only get to build something for me every two projects or so, but feels AWESOME not to be taking from a very tight monthly budget.

I sold everything in my daughters room that counted as storage to help along the process. So she has needed this for a while now. I am so excited that it turned out looking so well. It was a pretty easy build and I am so happy. She loves it too. THANKS ANA!

I extended the sides from the original plan so that it was all open and then designed a footboard. I'll post the plans for that extension.

I made this little Adirondack end table and chairs set for my niece and nephew. I made the end table following the Adirondack Stool or End Table plan. I made the chairs using the pattern found in Ana's book.

Finally Finished! We needed to put two girls in the same room, so we could make room for a baby. The beds I found in furniture stores were either affordable with good reason (poor quality!) or expensive with good reason (solid wood). So this was the alternative. I eliminated the box spring and elevated the platform 15 inches high, so there is tons of storage space under those beds! Another builder found this fabulous bed hardware, which I used and definately recommend: http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=11
It allows you to assemble and dissemble the bed quickly without a screwdriver, which is great if your in the military! One word of caution though, in the original furniture plans, the cleats attach to the inside of the bedposts. If you use the rockler bed hardware, the cleats will attach to (roughly) the middle of the bed posts. So in order to have your mattress platform be the proper width (not too wide), you need to use a table saw and trim 3/4 an inch off the width of each of the panels for the headboard and footboard prior to assemly.

I love my new coffee table!! It was so hard to decide which to make, Ana-white has so many plans to choose from. I chose this one because it looked sturdy and rustic. I wasn't looking for anything to fancy since my kids and a husband like to put their feet, food, drinks, and projects on everything... this was perfect. I thought the plans were very simple to follow. I used a clear satin finish verses the gloss and I really liked how it turned out. Still cleans well too. This was a fun, easy, and affordable project that made a great addition to my living room :)

My brother in law recovered some mahogany boards from a job site so i jumped on the opportunity to use some real quality lumber in a project. Using the Triple Pedestal Farmhouse Table plans as a guide i built this 500lbs beauty. Boards are joined with biscuits, legs are glue joined and 4x4. legs are bolted to table top with 3/8-16 bolts and nut inserts. 6 inch black steel 5/8 11 bolts and nuts were used to hold the cross beam.

I decided to use tung oil on this dense wood with no stain at all.

The whole project took about 2 months working weekends. If you have any questions about the project you can contact me at [email protected]. I am going to sell it since i dont have a need for it or the room.

Coffee table made from rustic x coffee table plans. 

This was my second project since college 8 years ago and I am so pleased how well it turned out.
My son really wants a bunk bed so I promised him I would make the simple twin bed to complete the set. Eventually that is...May also make a trundle too.
Thanks!

This build was our first one. I completed all the cutting and putt together while my better half completed all the staining and weather treating.

I loved the plan of the cooler table, while looking at that one i saw a modified version that was longer and had 4x4 for legs...

i choose that design due to the weight of the table and figured 2x4s just wouldn't be sturdy enough for the extra length my girl friend wanted.

I built this Pottery Barn inspired planked wood shelf for my Wife's first Mother's Day. using several 1, 2, and 3 by 1s. I started by making the frame and then cutting boards to fill in the gaps. Once I had all of the puzzle pieces in place I drilled pocket holes on the back of the larger pieces to provide support to the shelves so it can hold a load (wine bottles, clocks etc.) Then I finished each individual piece and placed it in its correct location. Using several clamps to glue the smaller pieces together. Finally I hung the shelf in our dining room using a french cleat (Hobby Lobby $6 or $7).

My husband and built this fancy "X" outdoor bench to go with the fancy "X" outdoor table we built a few weeks ago.