Patio Sectional and Coffee Table
Patio sectional for the triplets!
Chris Harden
Patio sectional for the triplets!
Chris Harden
I am so excited about this project! I re-did my entire little man's room. It included a ton of Ana's projects! The closet, $10 ledges, step stool and the toy storage. This was quite the venture for me, I have done a lot of plans from Ana, but this one was a lot - a lot of painting. And hanging the doors, was a challenge :) I couldn't be more happy. My little man didn't want to leave his room he was so excited!
Mon, 10/22/2012 - 08:16
Love your new room for your son! I love using clear toy storage bags to organize toys and then you could put the bags on display or behind the doors in your storage unit - http://mommby.com/Store/Bag.php.
This build was not hard, but just took time. The plans were perfect. Clear, easy to follow and correct.
Materials cost about $400.
This was a fun project because my 8 years old son got to help build his bed. I used a brad nailer to hold many pieces together after they were glued. Not a must, but it made the build a lot easier. It also came in very handy when making the shelves.
We also added IKEA LED lights underneath the bed for a cool effect.
We (my husband and I) recently gave our tween daughter's bedroom a complete overhaul and needed an affordable and pretty nightstand for the room. After searching online and in stores, we could not find one that we liked for a price we wanted to pay, so we opted to build. These plans were very easy to follow and allowed us to create a functional bedside table that was just right for the space.
First build! Love the way it turned out! Used stain in color “Briarwood”.
I built this toybox for my son's first birthday. It took about a week to do, starting and stopping. I got Lowes to cut the plywood for me, and screwed everything together. Wood filler filled the countersunk holes, and a coat of primer and two coats of paint finished it off.
After everything dried, my wife added the name and crown in vinyl cut out using her Cricut.
My (excited!) first time building a piece for someone else. This table was made as a housewarming gift for some awesome friends. Many people contributed to material cost and my husband and I put it together.
The table is made out of all cedar to deal with the southern rain and sun (we haven't had a dry day since we delivered it a month ago, so you get a wet but sunny picture - yay hurricane season)
We modified the plans to incorporate two planter buckets for icing drinks and such. This required us to make two longitudinal frames instead of the one used in the original plans. We spaced the frames just enough to fit the planters down in them, then added short 1x2s between them to support the planters. Before boarding the top 2x6s together, I made rough cuts for the openings. When it was all together, my husband used a 2" router bit to clean up the edges of the holes.
Made the 8 foot FancyX benches to have as much seating room as possible for lots of friends and family. Looking forward to using it more when the weather dries up a little.
Ended up making mine 8x4 to fit between 2 windows on the side of the house. I put in a paver base and then built a 2x4 floor with three quarter inch plywood.
I drew everything our first so I knew what to order from HD. I followed the plans basically but used 2x4s in the frame of the walls and back. I just used plywood on the back wall. We also can't get cedar fence planks in south Florida, only 6 ft pine pickets, so I made due.
The roof I had to measure once the frame was up, just to be sure. Also used a 2x6 as the cross brace on the front...wanted to make sure it was strong enough to prevent the doors from pulling in and sagging, since they're bigger.
Tools:. Pocket hole jig is a must. And I did this completely solo, so air nailers were a 100% must. Frame nailer and Brad nailer with various size nails. I still may add angled brace 2x4 across the top interior to hold the square. Shingled the roof and added a little $9 solar powered light bulb, with a little panel wired to the roof. Works well. Still needs sealed and shingles trimmed but I get a lot of compliments on this thing. Turned out very impressive.
Cost of everything.....around $400. Time, doing it solo seriously took like 3 days...probably about 25 hours for everything excluding paver base.
Full size storage bed with trundle. Three drawers and a trundle on one side and four drawers on the other. I started with the farmhouse design (headboard and footboard) and modified it to make it not so heavy and I designed the rest using SketchUp. See more photos in blog link.
This has been a project all summer and I was so excited to find that Ana had made a mantle. I had to make it bigger and I had so much fun making it! Thank you Ana!!!
Mon, 01/04/2016 - 10:12
Could you let me know which pieces you had to adjust to fit your fireplace? If possible, if you still know the width changes? I'm a new wood worker, but would love to try and adjust this to fit our fireplace, ours looks to be the same size as yours. Thanks for your time!!
Paul
This was my first table project. I needed additional desktop space in my home office. This table was easy to build.
This was my first attempt after finding the site. I was so happy with the ease of the plans and the way it turned out i made the dining table
King size bed. Aged the maple headboad per the plan, but then sanded to lighten the effect and sealed with a finishing wax. Trim is white milk paint.
My son asked me to build him a narrow desk for his bedroom, with lots of drawers. This desk is a modified version of the Brookstone desk, with 7 drawers on the side and a pull-out writing surface (inspired by the pull out surface LadyGoats added to the Mod bar wine grid base – Gina’s pictures from her blog were really helpful!) The top measures 16 ¾ x 48 (top is a 1x12 and 1x6 edge joined with pocket holes). Lots of pocket holes on this one, because it’s stained and I didn’t want to fill nail holes. For the color we were trying to match the PB small printers desk Chestnut color. The pulls are antique bronze from Lowes. The drawers slide directly on the wood, because I knew I wouldn’t have the patience to install 8 sets of drawer slides ;) used ¾” S4S and 1x2 to hold the drawers. The drawer bottoms and the wood all got a coat of soft wax, and they slide nice and smooth. This took about 20 hours to build and finish over a long weekend. My son said he thought it looks amazing, which is the best part!
Tue, 10/30/2012 - 07:09
This looks awesome! Love those drawers, colors, handles-everything!
Tue, 10/30/2012 - 07:29
Thanks LisaTen! This was a fun build, especially since it was for my son, the college student :) :) (proud Mom smiles)
Sat, 11/03/2012 - 10:35
Thanks Gina! I'm glad you like the desk, and especially glad you added your link to the tutorial. :) I couldn't have done the pull out without it! I can't wait to see your desk, I'm sure it will look awesome!
Thu, 09/05/2013 - 07:49
JoanneS,
I think I've just found my design for my fly tying desk! I was wondering how wide you made the drawer base and how tall each drawer is?
Thanks,
Ben
Wed, 09/11/2013 - 02:19
Hi Ben,
Sorry I'm so late replying, I just saw I had this comment. The drawer base on this is 16 1/4" wide, and each drawer is 2 3/4" tall (a 1x3 with 1/4" plywood as the bottom). I'm kind of a spreadsheet geek, so I have all the measurements and cut lists in an Excel file. If you would like to have these, please send me a message via "contact" on my profile, and I'll reply with the attachment. Thanks for commenting, glad you like the desk! :)
Joanne
I needed a place to store towels and other items in my bathroom. This was the perfect project for this. I have friends begging me to make one for them. Not too hard and it definitely does the job!
I built this table from your Farmhouse table plans for my friends. They did the fabulous job of staining it.
Great site!
Needed new desks for remote learning and working from home. Easy to build and we love them. This is 1 out of 2.
I loved the look of the farmhouse table, but it was a little long for what I needed as our kitchen table. The original plan made a longer dining room type table. I decided to shorten it up a bit, it has a bit more of a stocky look to it but we love it! It is such a solid design, and we get such great compliments on it. I used wooden dowels to fill the screw holes which gave it a bit more country look to it because the vinegar stain turned them a slightly different color than the tabletop.
Why an octagon shape? I wanted a round table and my husband wanted square, so we met in the middle and built this! Very easy and fun to build!
Wed, 08/20/2014 - 09:51
I love this! It looks great and sturdy (and heavy! lol). just curious, where did you get your chairs?
In reply to I love this! It looks great by booksnotbombs
Wed, 08/20/2014 - 17:50
Thank you! I got the chairs from Target from the carlisle collection. :)
Thu, 08/21/2014 - 07:40
Thank you for the reply! We have a beautiful old solid wood turned-leg farmhouse table (and matching chairs) that has been in my family since the 60's that needs to be refinished, but it just isn't our style. So we're thinking of building our own in our more modern style but would have to get chairs to accompany it. I LOVE these, so I think we've found our new chairs! I hope our table turns out as beautiful as yours.
I still have plans to refinish the old table and pass it along to someone who will show it as much love (aka abuse) as it received in my childhood...
Hi Ana,
My wife and I wanted to creat a caboose bunk bed for our boys. When we saw the cabin bed plans we loved the look for the caboose. We used your plans as a guide and made a few modifications. We are really happy with how it turned out! It just needs a ladder and maybe some train wheels. Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas. They have inspired us!
Travis and Krista Lundell
Tue, 07/09/2019 - 19:32
Hey there. Do you have measurements or a description of how the top modification part was done?
my father wants to make a caboose bunk bed for my train Fanatic Son.
Thanks,
-Amanda
I was so excited to build this outdoor patio set! My husband and I looked high and low to find an affordable,“tall and sturdy people” outdoor patio set. The sturdy pieces we found were in the $600-$1000s... and I’m sorry.... we’re not paying that. Especially, since most of those sets were not built to hold up in the Florida rain and humidity. So my husband suggested... “ just build it!” I modified the leg length to 28 1/4”, since I have tall family. The cushions were found at Pier1 for a steal since they’re going out of business, so the chairs were modified to fit the cushion size 22”x 22”.