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In our basement we have an 8 inch oak ledge on the outside walls. I love the oak finished ledge, but it makes it hard to place furniture up against it. The furniture is either shorter or taller than the ledge and looks awkward. So, I built several storage pieces to fit our area and ledge. I modified a couple of different plans to create our toy storage area. It's so useful and looks great.

This was my first wood working project. I made this for my little sister for Christmas. It was a great starter project. I may be biased but I think it turned out pretty good.

I saw this on pintrest and took the big Kids picnic table and modified it to include a removable top and sandbox.

One of the kitchen accessories is
a bottle rack. There are many kinds of bottle
rack depending on the type of bottle (oil or whiskey) and the use of it
(sliding, stable under the sink, in a single cabinet roundtrips etc).

The demands of my own
construction is on bottle rack wagon (ie kitchen pulled out of context), will
find below and next to the sink that will use the entire height of the cabinet
and will have bottles of oil that can be dirty and will therefore be wash.Finally it is two storey with
the second shelf can be moved in height. The dimensions are length 53,2 cm width 25cm and
height 50cm. The materials we use are white
melamine 16mm aluminum angle, aluminum tubes and aluminum sheets to dress
racks. 

Materials of Construction

Melamine White 16mm: 4pcs x
(25cm x 50cm)
Aluminum angles (15mmx15mm):
4pcs 4pcs x 50cm x 47cm and
Aluminum tubes 10mm: 2 pcs and
2 x 52cm x 54cm pieces
Aluminum Sheets: 2pcs x 32cm x 57cm

Cost of construction

Melamine 0.5
m x 11,5 = 5,75 
euros
 Guide Ferrari50 cm 1pc x 9 = 9 
euros
Aluminum angles 4 feet (4 pcs of 1m) x 2.5 =
10
euros
Aluminium tube 4 feet (2 pcs of 2m) x 5,5 =
11 euros
Aluminum Sheets  8 euros
Mounting rack 1 
euros
Total: 45.75 euros

FIRST BUILD!! We've been using metal decorative plant stands as our nightstands, but they're just too wobbly on the carpet in our bedroom, and don't have any storage except the top of them, so when we saw the plans for the Mini Farmhouse Bedside Table, we knew it would be perfect. We don't have a lot of space next to the bed, so we went with the Mini plans, and built 2 of the nightstands, one for each side. We do a lot of projects, and I have refinished furniture for a few years, but we've never built anything from scratch. We have all the tools, so we decided to give it a try. This is our first build, and even though they're not perfect, I think they turned out nice, and we learned a lot that we will bring into future builds. We've already since built a Farmhouse Bench, and are getting lumber this weekend to build a dining table! Thanks to Ana's plans, there are endless possibilities!!

We used 3 pieces of 1x6 for a planked top instead of one large piece of wood, just because we had extra 1x6. Otherwise, we followed the plans pretty close to exact. We bought a Kreg Jig mini before starting on this project, and it's the BEST tool ever!! I want the more expensive kreg jig now, haha I love it!

I took the original plan design for a Murphy bed - it was inspired by a Dr. Who themed bed that used a Murphy Bed Kit - I've used Ana White's plans before and thought why spend $$$ on a kit when you don't have to.  I few trips to the store and a weekend later I have my very own Tardis Murphy Bed.  It cost about $140 to build not including the mattress and accessories cost (light kit/upholstery panel/police box sign etc) I raised it up about 4" to attach legs and added some puck lights for a lighting effect.  I think it came together rather nicely.  I just have to add handles and the magnetic closures and it will be all done.

It took me all weekend to build by myself - had my brother help me with mounting the mattress box in the cabinet.  I would suggest having wood cut at the lumbar yard as it is difficult to cut the 8 and 12" boards unless you have a bigger table saw that I do.

Modified the salsa console by taking the drawer off and stealing some from Patrickhosey's (bragpost). I built it for my dining room. Measures 57-1/2" long X 17" depth X 39" tall.

Table and benches were made to plan, except I shortened the overall length and added another 2x10 to the top to give it some additional width. The benches were also shortened slightly so the legs of the benches slide between the legs of the table; which allows the benches to be pushed further under the table when not in use. Avoid my rookie furniture making mistake and go to a specialty lumber store that sells wood that is already aged (dry). Most everything you find at the big box stores will still be wet and shrink/warp on you if not completely dry first.

Fun project that my son and our next soon to be baby will enjoy for a long time. Plans were very easy to fallow and easy to build.

Laundry cabinets. Center is drying rack with shelf in back

This replaced a huge formica countertop in our laundry room. The counter collected unfolded clothes on the top, and piles of shoes underneath. Also, we had a 4 hook shelf from Target holding all 3 of our kids bags and backpacks. My husband was against this, because "where would we put all the laundry?" Well, this is the solution and we both love it!

I measured this out and drew diagrams and then finally decided this was too big of a project to do for the first time. I did hire someone, but he said the measurements were right on.....he had never built something like this before. The outside of the door is painted with magnetic primer and holds magnets. So much more functional that the counter.

I know I didn't build this myself. I think I could have done it, if I could have a week to do this without interruption, but that was impossible and I needed this YESTERDAY (the 4 hook wall shelf fell out of the wall). But I wanted to share in case anyone else is having a space dilemma! We LOVE it!!!!

Thanks Ana for your wonderfull website! even in The Netherlands your designs are shown.

Fun project. It ended up being more time consuming than I had originally planned.

I was scared to try this project because it is listed as "intermediate" and I don't have that much furniture building experience. I originally wanted to do this with live edge, but when I saw how much it was gonna cost, I thought I would just do planks. Lucky me, I found 5 8ft live edge pieces (1 ft wide, 3 inches thick) for CAN $100. Some 2x4 and 1x4 and I was ready to rock and roll. I decided to make the table 6 ft long, so the legs are 5 ft apart. I made the connection a bit different than in the plans, just because I want to be able to stretch our legs underneath. It is as stable as can be. I love Ana White's plans. Great instructions, great cut list and almost no left overs.

I love my cat, and felt she needed a pretty feeding dish. I stole some old spindles from my sister's garage, cut them down and threw this plan together. It was actually harder than I expected because getting into tight little spaces with my drill to drill in the pocket holes was almost imposible. The wood split, nothing is square and the holes for the dishes are messy...but it doesn't really matter, it looks good from a distance and my cat doesn't judge. Not that I know of, anyway.

Starting from the Extra Wide Shoe Bench plans, I expanded the upper section considerably. The cabinetry is all cut from hardwood plywood and joined with pocket screws and glue. I don't have a table saw, so a circular saw and straightedge were extensively used.