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This was easier than I thought. My kids helped me with it. I decided to leave the bottom shelf off as it can be added at a later time if desired.
I'm going to take the same concept and make two loft beds for my kids.
This was easier than I thought. My kids helped me with it. I decided to leave the bottom shelf off as it can be added at a later time if desired.
I'm going to take the same concept and make two loft beds for my kids.
I modified the plan to allow for wider shelves on the legs. I also made the width of the desk 22” instead of 24” to accommodate the size of the repurposed coffee table I used for the desktop.
Mon, 01/09/2023 - 18:49
Love everything about this table from the repurposed top to the color choice! Thanks for sharing.
This planter was made from all reclaimed woods from a door, book shelf, a pallet, and a fence that was being thrown away. I like to try to keep the landfill from overflowing by reducing as much waste as I can. Every piece of trash counts you know! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reclaim! Me go eco....you go too!
For the story visit my blog:
http://me-go-eco.blogspot.com/2011/09/so-what-do-you-do-with-these.html
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Thanks for stopping by. Have an awesome day! =)
We wanted a king sized bed but had been holding off because I wasn't ready to buy all new bedroom furniture.
We love our new bed and we love how our bedroom is coming together!
We followed the plans, but adjusted the height for our new mattress, and then omitted a bit of the extra trim.
We managed to build the bed as a platform bed, for less than what we would have paid for the box spring!
Faux fireplace
I followed the project for the most part but did not want the dowels as it makes for less space for the giant Costco sized spices! my dimensions are 23 x 39. From start to finish it took about 5 hours but with 2 children learning how to do a project like this. We could have easily completed it in half that time. I will be adding onto it for the bottom soon to accommodate foils, bags, etc.
Awesome dressers by Greg P
This bedside table is sooo easy to do. My husband and I made this table in about 1 1/2 hours. Of course, this doesnt include the time it took to paint and stain. When the cutting and nailing is done, so is my husband. Finishing the projects is up to me! lol Following the plan precisely makes this easy to build! The only thing we did differently is that we added an outside stretcher across the bottom front. I love love LOVE this table! I purchased the drawer pulls from Lowes on clearance for $1.19 each.
When we recently bought our 150+ year old house, we were pretty happy with just about everything (not stopping us from coming up with projects!) except the kitchen. This kitchen hadn't been updated in about 15 years, had dark brown walls, boring square white tiles with white grout, and TONS of cabinets. Everywhere. I felt like the walls were closing in!
So before we ever signed a piece of paper I had a vision of open shelving. Wide, white floating shelves to put our every day items at arms reach and display the few items we rarely use but think are beautiful.
I loved Ana's plans, but I needed these shelves to hold 12 dinner plates, 12 bowls, 12 salad plates, 4 pasta bowls, and...well, right there that about 40 pounds of stuff. And the basic plans just didn't seem heavy-duty enough.
Enter our contractor, John, who I asked for help because, while they were my vision, they were his handy-work. My husband and I didn’t even attempt to build them on our own. John is a perfectionist and we knew he’d make this plan work…perfectly.
As usual, this was no sweat for John. To build the frames he used 2 x 2′s and secured them with 10 x 1 1/4″ angle brackets. During assembly, John made sure to position the center supports to match the wall studs in front of which the frame would hang. Once assembled, he removed some dry wall and attached the brackets directly to the studs.
We could store baby elephants on these shelfs, they wouldn’t budge.
Since I knew what needed to be stored on that first shelf (our every day items), we used the measurements to equally distance the three shelves (not including the first shelf of course—it needed more space above the counter top). Then we sealed up the dry wall. Another help with support was butting the shelves right up to the corner, putting another screw in another stud.
We moved the lighting electric up for new under cabinet lighting—so easy pre-tiling.
For the actual shelves—I like to think of them as “sleeves”—John used 3/4″ sanded plywood for the tops and bottoms of each shelf, then 1 x 6 clear pine ripped down to desired thickness for the fronts and one side (the other side is against the wall, so was left open). The primed sleeves spent a few days on the screened in porch while I tiled around the frames, they were pretty heavy and very solid.
I’ve made an attempt to lay out the measurements involving our floating shelf project. These are to scale and give a good idea of how our plans differed from Ana’s.
We LOVE our shelves and get so so many compliments. The seemingly small and simple changes (tile, shelves, new window trim, paint, and soon flooring) made a HUGE impact and not that huge of a cost. And we don't miss the upper cabinets at all.
Thanks for the head-start and inspiration Ana!
Sun, 10/20/2013 - 09:42
Where did you get the heavy duty angle brackets? Having a hard time finding them. If you have the link, that would be great! Thanks!!
Mon, 10/21/2013 - 08:41
I'm not sure where to get big angle brackets like that, but you might want to try a local lumberyard instead of a home center. Even when they don't have a product they often know who does. The angle brackets embedded in the drywall is a clever idea I never thought of using.
Tue, 11/25/2014 - 20:08
What city was this work done in? I live in Seattle and I am looking for a contractor.
Made these for my nephews for Christmas. Only issue I had was the screws stuck out a little bit of the 1/2" pocket holes. I even tried the pan head type that were designed for the 1/2" holes.
Beautiful bed build. shared by Leslie.
Here is my step stool that I've wanted to make for quite some time, but didn't think I'd need it....until the other day when I couldn't reach something in my garage. This will give me just enough height to reach items in my taller cupboards in my kitchen as well. I think it turned out pretty cute. I cut out a stencil design with my Cricut and used black acrylic paint with a dry brush.
Tomorrow I will give it a light coat of poly just to protect my stencil work mainly.
I used 2x2's intead of 1x2s because I had lots of scraps of those lying around from other projects I've made off of Ana's website!
This bench was so easy to build! It's the first project that I've built completely with the nail gun. Wow does that speed up the process! Thanks again for the great plans, Ana!
Everyone gets projects from Ana-White plans for Christmas this year.
I can't wait to give them away.
This was incredibly easy to build for a semi-newbie! The shopping list and cut list were a huge help! We love Ana-White.com!!!
I worked on both the kitchen table, the dining table as well as the bench seat and all eight parson chairs together, so it took over a week to make this. I think if you were just doing the table you would be looking at a weekend project. Go hard or go home, unless you are home...
The kitchen table was just a case of shortening Ana's plan to about four feet. I made a quick and dirty table leaf to attach the two tables. For more info see my blog. There is also info on making those Parsons chairs too.
My Blog: http://landlocked-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/farmhouse-dining-table-and-b…
Tue, 10/11/2011 - 09:41
Great job! You did a fantastic job and I love the chairs a bunch bunch bunch!
Fri, 10/14/2011 - 07:27
Hey Indiana,
Thanks! You can find out how to make those chairs yourself here:
http://landlocked-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/build-your-own-parson-ish-ch…
Sun, 10/16/2011 - 19:06
What color did you use for the stain and what was your finishing process?
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 16:07
Your table is absolutely beautiful! May I ask where you got your beautiful tableware??
Sun, 01/08/2012 - 18:22
Very nice! What kind of wood is that and would you mind sharing the stain color?
Tue, 08/25/2015 - 17:01
Love the idea and plan on borrowing it, but we were just curious how do you make the leaf that connects them?
Another question, when you made the breakfast table, did you cut the table top pieces to 48" or did you cut them 36" and made the whole table 4 ft with the end pieces added? Also, for the breakfast table, would it seat 6 people comfortably? Thanks and what a wonderful job!
We adapted the original barn beam ledge plans on a much larger scale to occupy the bare wall space above our couch. Each ledge was 5 feet in length.
I wanted an easy way for my girls to play with their legos and not have to fight over an area or who had the Lego bin. So I took the plans and tweaked them to have a cutout and storage area for legos. I built this by myself in two days. I had to wait till the kids were asleep since it was a Christmas present. All in all it took maybe 2 hours to build and another 2 for sanding and painting.
Wed, 12/30/2015 - 16:21
Great job! I love the space for separate builds and storage underneath.
I have just finished this project one thing I recommend is the pneumatic lifts for the lids they are 10 dollars a piece and make a huge difference