I broke down and got the pocket hole jig... easily cut this project's time in half
Needed a few different types of screws than listed in the plan
After shopping for a dining room table with my wife in mid November, I came to the realization that I could make a table like the ones being sold at the store for a fraction of the price. I spent some time surfing the web looking for farmhouse table designs when I stumbled upon Ana's website. The Farmhouse table (pocket hole updated version) really jumped out at me as something that I could accomplish as a person who had never worked with wood before. So starting the Friday after Thanksgiving I began building the table in secret, as I planned to surprise my wife with it for christmas.
Feeling ambious, I decided to add two of the farmhouse benches to my workload thinking it would make my surprise all the better. After a lot of long nights, I was able to complete the benches and table as well as stain and add a couple coats of polyurethane just in the nick of time. My wife was very surprised and couldn't be happier with out the table turned out. I can't wait to try more Ana White projects!
I couldn't find any queen sized plans on the website so I took a twin plan and modified it to fit a queen bed. There are a couple things I would do different such as use MDF instead of the plywood it called for. The plywood, even painted, appears very rough. Also, I am going to frame in the sides on the bench across the foot of the bed and leave some overhang to cover up the seam in the benches. Overall it was a very easy and smooth project. I am def investing in Kreg on my next project. Baskets will fill the empty space and a headboard is to come!
Lots of projects going on around here, but today I’m sharing my farmhouse dining table I built a little over a year ago (waaay before this blog!). This was my very first woodworking project. I did happen to snap a few photos of the process – sorry about the poor quality, these were taken with my phone!
The wood for building this table was around $100! I think Pottery Barn was selling this table for around $1800 at the time. Mine might not look identical, but for the cost differential, I’m a happy camper!
For the stain I really wanted to create a natural-looking aged finish so I used the old steel wool and vinegar treatment.
My son loves his new bed. It was his favorite part of Christmas. He now has his own little sanctuary to hide out in.
I needed a place to store my various countertop appliances other than my limited kitchen countertop. This plan seemed to work the best. My first furniture project.
After completing this console table from Ana Whites' The Hand Built Home, I'm sold on doing more projects from this book! My wife has gone ahead and put sticky notes throughout the book on stuff she wants built! So pretty much I have all the projects in the book to complete. I also had guys at the fire department I work for make comments on how much they liked it. Keep the plans coming Ana!!
I built this last weekend and had a blast with it. The design was from Ana's Factory Cart Coffee table, but I built it a little bit different. The side boards are from 1x8 pine instead of 1x6. I wanted it to be a little bit taller. I ended up getting the casters from Home Depot. They were $25 each. However I saved some cash on the top by using wood from a pallet that I sanded down and stained. The overall cost was about $120 with $100 of that being just the casters.
I did the No.52 and max weight by creating a stencil and painting it with black paint and sanding it down.
Sat, 12/31/2016 - 16:38
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I made it a little taller and it is all a filing cabinet.
Tue, 09/15/2020 - 06:51
Did you build the tall cabinet? Do you have plans for it?
Thanks!
Sat, 09/19/2020 - 13:17
Sun, 02/14/2021 - 15:27
Wow! These are amazing! Thanks for sharing! What finish did you use? And how tall did you make the filing cabinet? Thanks!!
I was inspired to build this bed by this post at Big Box Detox. http://www.bigboxdetox.com/diy-make-own-upholstered-bed
I chose not to build the headboard because I have my bed placed in front of a window. However, I may add it in the future. For those of you going on a search for fabric and batting I recommend scoping out Joann's Fabric and Crafts, especially when they offer 50% coupons. The cost for me for wood, batting and fabric was less than $150! My project can also be found on my blog at designroost.net
Happy building!
A fun project to make ending with a functional product to boot! I went all out making sure that each truck/shelf would coordinate with each grandson's theme/decor in their bedrooms. Luca, who just turned 2, got a new Chevy Corvette Racce Car Bed for his birthday and I built the gas pump book case/cabinet to match. Therefore, for Luca I went with the Red and white to match his bed & bookcase/cabinet and added painted on logos and lettering for his vintage Chevy truck.
Adaptation de la table console pour en faire un coffre à jouets.
Built two Rustic X end tables and one Rustic X coffee table. I modified the design to fit my room better. Just building the two tables (no sanding) took me about 5 hours.
Second Ana White project. Modified it from the "X" to a "Z" coffee table. Hand distressed it. Narrowed the width, bread board ends, and added clavos and trunk corners I purchased on Amazon. Very happy with this second build. It went much easier than my first one.
Used pine, stained with Special Walnut and poly acrylic. It was a tricky doing the angle on the tops and bottoms but came out ok. Used leftover wood I had in my stash.
Thu, 09/17/2020 - 10:15
Great use of leftover lumber! Thanks for sharing:)
I used the jewelry cabinet as inspiration by adding crown moulding to the top and b-board to the door and changing the measurements.
I am really new at this woodbuilding thing, but found this and gave it a try.
Turned out quite good in an afternoon.
I did not use a Kreg Jig as I live in belgium (Europe), but Wolfcraft has a similar kind of tool, with the advantage of showing the mesurements in cm instead of inches.
Structure : used 69x44cm
Surface : used 150x35cm
Pain : V33 cacao for structure and ivory for surface.
My wife and I traveled to Boston for Thanksgiving with our daughter. While we were there ,we were browsing around Restoration Hardware and stumbled on a loft bed. My daughter fell in love with it, but I was hesitant of the 3300 price tag, thinking how fast she is growing. I decided to do some research and thanks to your site , I have one happy child. It took me about a week and half start to finish and cost me 600 dollars in all materials , a few miscellaneous tools, and a new mattress . It was fun to build , plans were accurate , and the completed project is flawless. Thank you for your help!!! Bianco Family
This was my first woodworking project. And even though it took me much, much longer than the afternoon Ana White said she built it in, I’m still happy with how it turned out.
I changed the plans just a bit because I chose to make the shelves higher up, rather than even, so that I could have larger spaces and smaller spaces to store things. I also tried to match a two-toned look that a few pieces of our furniture already had by making the top and the shelves a different tone than the edging. The “weathered” wood I managed to create was more gray than the inspiration pieces, but they tie together well enough. I’m sure that trying to match that look was one big reason it took me so much longer than I expected, since I couldn’t assemble the desk and then paint the wood since I would risk painting or staining the wrong surfaces. Also, I made a bunch of rookie mistakes that I had to try to correct and that ate up time as well.
This project only cost about $35 since my husband has all the tools I could possibly need, plus had several large pieces of wood left over from home remodeling I was able to use for the top and shelves. We had leftover paint and leftover stain I was able to use as well, and he even had a kreg jig and pocket hole screws. Really all I had to buy were the 2x2’s for the legs and edging, plus some cheap plaster of Paris to make homemade “chalk” paint.
It is so amazing to look at this and realize that I made it. It’s a pretty big feeling of accomplishment, and I love the open clean lines of the desk as well as the fact I was able to match furniture I had in a way that wouldn’t be possible at this point with a store-bought desk. Thanks, Ana!
We built this table over one weekend and did the finish work another weekend. We are in the middle of building our home so the table project took a back seat for awhile but we are happy with the result in the end! Could be done all in one weekend without an issue.
You can read about it and see lot's more photos here:
http://letsjustbuildahouse.blogspot.com/2012/12/diy-rustic-farmhouse-ta…
and I'm sure I will be posting more photos with hopefully a bench soon too on:
http://letsjustbuildahouse.blogspot.com/
thanks for the plans can't wait to see what I can talk my husband into next from Ana's site!
Comments
ceabrm
Mon, 09/08/2014 - 08:32
Looks beautiful!
oh my -- I HAVE to make one too! How are you going to finish?