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I'm a newbie and loved your doll bunkbed pattern.  I made 6 of them for my granddaughters for christmas. They loved them! Thank you so much for sharing your talents!!

This bench works great as a piano bench with storage inside for all of the sheet music. I added one little 4x4x.75 piece of wood inside in the middle because I found that the 1x12 seat would flex in the center but after adding that piece of wood it was solid. I also added eye hooks and chain for the top so that it does not flip all the way backwards.

I was tired of stooping to do laundry with my front-loading washer. I used the plans for Sausha's washer/dryer pedestals and tweaked them a bit.

This was my first woodworking project ever. No woodworking experience at all and very little experience with power tools. I am super inspired now and have tons of other ideas lined up.

My wife told me she would like a pair of matching dog crates built to fit the space between the wall and the dryer in our laundry room. I built her two crates (25L x 17W x 18H) and painted them to match the colors in the laundry room. They fit the open space exactly and sit on top of each other. The entire project took about 2 days to finish and set me back around $80. They seem to work perfectly for our dogs, both of whom are on the smaller size of medium. They really tie the space together and add a wow factor to an other wise normal laundry room.

Just changed the back a tiny bit.  My nieces and nephews love these!  Thanks for the great plans.

Basic  kitchen  island

For this project, I used 6 foot cedar fence posts and 8 foot cedar 2x4s. I used a pencil to space the boards and allow extra air flow. More space between boards is acceptable - even to the extent of dropping off one full board and putting an inch between each side rail.

Another option is to make your sides interlocking layers, one or two boards high - http://cedarstackingcompostbin.blogspot.com/

Since I am composting large amounts of leaves and grass clippings, mine is made in one piece. I don't turn my pile often - when I do, I can either lift the whole thing up or move the pile from side to side. I cut the 2x8x8 posts - cut a 3 foot length off of each end. Save the 2 foot center piece to brace the long sides. Affix your 1/2 (3 foot side) and full fence (6 foot side) boards to the 2x4, leaving the desired gap between each board. Affix each board with 2 weather proof screws - I used coated deck screws.

Attach the vertical posts to the inside of the cedar fence boards, including the short 2 foot boards that are just long enough to brace the long sides. I alternated the dog eared sides, so that each corner had one flat and one notched board.

I used 24 cedar fence posts and 16 feet of cedar 2x4. Note, I was able to do this all along. The trash cans acted as supports - no clamps or saw horses needed.

Combined a few different plans from Ana White and made a tiletop coffee table and matching end table.

TV console is next :)

I built this as a memory bench in honour of my father who died on 27th January 2016. Because of you Ana you gave me the confidence to start building furniture. But because of him I had the skills and desire.

I needed to do something with the empty space at the bottom of our stairs. I was browsing Ana's site and the Tryde Console Table caught my eye. The next trip down to the farm, I scavenged for the wood I would need to build it. I found some beautiful old brigde timbers that were 9 inches wide so we modified the plans a bit to use 2 of the 9" boards instead of the 4 smaller ones the plans call for. The dimensions were close but we needed to tweak the rest of the project a bit as well to make it all work. For the finish, I just rubbed it with Tung Oil as to not cover up the beauty of the old wood.

just had to make a small change to get it to be a king ,  It was a long weekend  project

I built this for my daughter for Christmas this year. For the seats I used 2" foam wrapped in decorative fabric. Then I covered that with a thick plastic that I found at the local hobby store, to make it waterproof.

Chestwick queen platform bed! My first building project ever! Altered slightly from original plans in that I left the feet off so it sits on the ground. Added a canopy that hangs from the ceiling. The chandelier is an antique from Great Barrington, MA that I found at an antique shop while hiking the Appalachian Trail. Took the wiring out and sprayed it black. Now it's rigged to use with candles for a super-romantic look. :)

http://ana-white.com/2012/06/chestwick-queen-bed

I made this table to sit between a sofa and a wall with a window.  Used the Rustic X Console plan as my jumping off point.  I increased the height to meet the window sill and increased the width to the width of the sofa.  I used 2x2s instead of 2x4s for the legs, and 1x6s instead of 2x6s for the top.  I dd not include the middle shelf.  Since the table is sandwiched between a sofa and a wall only the sides are exposed, so I left off the Xs.   Because of this it now serves as a tunnel for the cats and dog.

All in all it basically turned out how I wanted it, though I could have worked on the stain a bit more.

This designed was modified to specifically fit a wine fridge. Same height and depth, but measuring 80" long. Drawers replaced with cubbies. All of the wood is reclaimed from wood we took out of the adjacent living room which used to be a sun room - 125 year old pine, fir, oak beadboard.