After discovering Ana White over a year ago, we knew that we wanted to build ourselves a dining room table. It was just a matter of finding the right plan for our house and family. The Narrow Farmhouse table was just perfect! We shortened the length to 6' to fit into our combined living dining area. I would love to have the 8' version some day, maybe when we have 2 separate eating areas?!
A note on our wood choices, I would try hard to use pine in lieu of whitewood for ALL the table components. The pine did a much better job with the stain and poly then the whitewood. As I have seen the one other time I tried to work with whitewood, it's CRAZY soft and I suppose I'm just not a big fan. I would take the trade off of more sanding with pine to insane finish silliness, any day!
Estimated Cost
$100, mostly because we moved this summer and had to buy stain & poly again. The wood cost was about $60 and we already had the pine scraps for the legs.
Estimated Time Investment
Day Project (6-9 Hours)
Finish Used
Minwax Dark Walnut with both Minwax Wipe On Polyuretane and Minwax Polycrylic. I am not usually aiming for a shiny, glossy finish so Wipe On Poly is my go-to finish. However, for this project, the Whitewood just soaked up the Wipe On Poly and the tabletop was not sufficiently smooth. So I bought a tiny jar of Polycrylic. I may just be converted, at least for tabletop surfaces, because the finish is now just beautiful.
Recommended Skill Level
Beginner
Comments
sgilly
Tue, 08/09/2011 - 18:31
Beautiful
What lucky little girls to have a mom who can build them beautiful furniture! Great job.
Ana White
Tue, 08/09/2011 - 22:11
An absolutely amazing amazing
An absolutely amazing amazing first project!
Rachel Stacy (not verified)
Tue, 12/25/2012 - 04:39
I really want to do this for
I really want to do this for our twins who are about to move to big girl beds. However, I do not see the plans for this. Do you have a pdf to show how to build them? I especially love the hutch!
In reply to I really want to do this for by Rachel Stacy (not verified)
hawaiitara
Wed, 01/16/2013 - 18:16
bed plans
It's from the twin storage bed plans, and the storage hutch plans too. I don't have a pdf myself, but all the plans are from Ana's site. Good Luck!