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Modified Spa Bench
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This is my first build ever...except for a rad cd rack I built in 8th grade shop class. My husband and I
So it all started when my amazingly crafty friend Lee built a toy kitchen for her kids. I was so impressed and started looking up other people's diy kitchens. So then I was searching for something totally different and saw the play kitchen on Ana's website (love it), and I got totally addicted and decided I was going to build a dining room table, because we have been using a hand-me-down brown card table and chairs from the 70's since we got married. (How's that for a run-on sentence?) I wasn't sure if my husband would take me very seriously, but after I showed him this website, I started noticing him on it all the time. He's more addicted than I am!
Fast forward some time and we decided to start with the spa bench as a warm-up. Once we are in a house with our own garage (God willing in the next few months), we plan on tackling the Farmhouse Table. Anyway, when we took the kids to Gma and Gpa's, my father-in-law got really excited that there were going to be carpenters in the family, and he took us out to the garage to show us all his tools that we could use.
We had to buy all of the wood, screws, sand paper, stain, polyurethane, and a paint brush since it was our first project, so it ended up costing about $85. At least now we have a lot of supplies left over for our future projects! We had
This is probably a weekend project if you count the staining and finisher. The actual building part only took us three or four hours (please don't laugh at us if that's painfully slow), but we actually took about two weeks to finish it because we have rain, no garage, and three kids under 19 months. And we weren't really in a hurry. Anyway, it was fun. We like to build. Thanks, Ana, for inspiring us and for making it doable for so many people! We think you're neat.
Pottery Barn Media Console
I have been wanting to build this piece for some time now. This is actually a Pottery Barn piece that is now discontinued that I modified here and there. I added a "flipper door" which opens and slides back into the cabinet. Adjustable shelves throughout. I used solid alder and alder plywood for material. - Brad @timberandsoul www.timberandsoul.com
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Sat, 05/16/2015 - 14:52
that looks great! I love
that looks great! I love seeing your brag posts! You make really great quality furniture. :) Hopefully one day I get to that point :)
Modern Bedroom Furniture Build
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Bed Frame and Headboard made from Ana's plans. Frame is very simple. Headboard is fairly simple but a lot more cuts, measuring and attaching. I stained both with Varathane Weathered Gray. I also attached sideboards and internal support 2x4s with bed-frame brackets rather than screwing directly in to allow for easier deconstruction and reconstruction. Used an insert nut on the sideboards to attach hairpin legs (screwed directly into top/bottom boards).
Side tables are just 3/4 birch plywood glued and nailed into a rectangular box. 24x18" Top/Bottom and 18 x 6" sides. Hairpin legs are longer versions (16") of Ana's Amazon suggestions for bed frame. Stained with Varathane Antique White.. turned out ok, but would use a different white stain or just paint them white if I had to do it again, and paint the insides before you build!
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Tue, 11/16/2021 - 15:27
Great headboard and nightstands!
That is beautiful, well done, thank you for sharing!
Anastasia's new bed
This is my daughters new bed. We modified the plans to fit what we wanted. I added drawers to the stairs. Then put shelves behind the stairs. Added doors so we can hide the shelves. We used rope lights inside to add light with her own light switch.
PS Don't mind the date on the pictures. Forgot to change the date.
Then primed and painted. We used a hvlp paint sprayer.
X-bench for kid's table
I scaled down the large rustic x bench plans to create seating for my grandkids at the new kid's table.
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Wed, 05/20/2015 - 08:46
That's pretty cool
I really like that bench. Especially how beefy it looks scaled down like that.
My little side tables
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I have previously made side tables for our master bedroom but after two grown kids came back we had to move to the smaller of the two bedrooms we have. So here’s my 13” width version !
Nice easy build, thanks again Ana. Took longer to figure my new measurements for my cut list than actually building them!
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Simple Nightstands
I absolutely love the way these turned out! I drew up an example in Sketch-up using Ana's plans for the Simple Nightstand as a starting point.
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Restaurant High Chair from scraps
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This took me longer to build than I expected -- maybe because I was working from scraps and had to figure out what would fit where along the way. Also, I initially cut all the side pieces with parallel cuts. Oops. So I had to re-do them all.
For more info, check out my blog post!
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Farmhouse King!
I only recently stumbled upon Ana-white.com and was amazed by all of the wonderful plans and tips here, not to mention the community. My wife and I had inherited a king size bed after my grandparents passed away. While we were both grateful, the bed was on a very basic metal frame that sat very low to the ground and was hard to get up out of. My wife had often talked of having a nicer bed to put our mattress and box spring on, So with great eagerness I set to work. I loved the classic look of this bed and was a bit saddened that there was no king-size plans available. I decided that wasn't going to deter me, so I set out to modify the plan to fit. After making a few adjustments and modifications, the bed really started to take shape. Needless to say, I am very pleased with the results! Thanks everyone, and thank you , Anna!
Scooter for Christmas
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Great plan! I curved the edges with a French curve and a bench sanding disk, and then used a router on all exposed edges. I used a dremel router table with a small bit for the small pine pieces and a full sized router for the two main platforms. If I were to do it again I’d be far more careful with angle accuracy.. I think my miter saw is a little off. My table saw was spot on for the plywood cuts. I also used smaller wheels and only have spinners on the front, preventing collision.
Barn Door Console Table
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This is my 1st wood project and I wouldn’t have tried it without your plans, thank you!
Took about 3 weeks between work and 3 kids. (My 2 year old wanted attention and pulled down what I put up in one pic) I also made some planter boxes in the middle to complete something and a side table that slides under the couch to test the finishes on before I completed this massive entertainment console.
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Bathroom Tower out of scraps
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When I saw another builder's little bathroom tower in the brag blog last week, I knew I needed one for my powder room! Ever since we installed a pedestal sink several years ago, we've had nowhere to put extra toilet paper. With this little tower, that problem is (finally) solved!
I built it will materials I had on hand. Oak plywood I ripped to 11" for the sides and shelves, 1x2 pine for the face frame, and a variety of pine for the top glued and screwed together with my Kreg jig.
The only purchase I made for this tower was the two fabric baskets from Target for about $12, I think. The fact that they fit is not a happy accident -- I built the unit around the basket dimensions.
While it is inspired by Ana's storage tower plans, I definitely went out on my own to make it work with the materials I had lying around.
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adirondack chair
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LOVed building and painting this. Although using European wood is a headache as of course the standard wood sizes are different. ... always 4-6 mm off... so all my things are crooked. I don't care though and it is my new favorite chair. I used ArchiTect blue exerior color, two coats, and pine wood.
I am grateful for Ana White's metric conversion chart in the book I now have but when going to the hardware store here, I am confronted with numerous standard wood sizes that are not the same as in the US!
Truss Bookshelf in Antique White
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Friends of mine are having a girl and needed a bookshelf for the nursery. Loved the simplicity of this design and wanted to see in an antique white finish. Great plans and design.
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Parsons desk
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I added an additional detached shelf so we can change the setup anytime. I also increased the space between the two main shelves to 30 inches and extended the depth to 22 inches overall. I left one shelf off to make room for the computer tower. The top is made from maple with a gunstock stain. This desk will mainly be for my kids gaming station.
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Outdoor Sectional
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Built this for my daughter in law for Christmas. Turned out awesome. Plans and directions were great!
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My locker Cabinet
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I built this locker system with a twist. I personalized the lockers by drilling the hooks into a cd and paint brush for my son because he is so artistic, a bone holds two hooks for my doggies' cubby, and my daughter has two hooks in a stuffed animal which represents her love for animals.
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Just a ladder...
(I don't know why my picture is horizontal, it shows up fine on my computer).
In redecorating my oldest son's room, we needed him to have a loft bed, but all the commercial loft beds are too tall for his bedroom. So then, we thought we would re-work his current bunkbed. In order to use it as a loft bed we had to remove the bottom support rails and that meant we needed a new solution for a ladder (because it was part of the support system). After looking through the site, I decided that this ladder was the best for our needs. The ladder went together smoothly. We had to modify the directions just a bit to make it the right size. We put a set of U-brackets on the end of the ladder to put over the bunk bed. We also drilled through the bed frame and into the ladder for additional support.
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Wed, 10/30/2013 - 12:14
Re-working the bunk bed
Hi there! I'd like to rework my daughter's bunk bed like you did, but struggling to figure out how to raise it. I also need to build a new ladder. Can you offer any guidance on this? Thanks!
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Sun, 11/07/2021 - 09:14
Very cute!
Thanks for sharing, it's adorable!