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I used cedar because I love the color and wanted the natural look.
I ended up creating a cement top instead of using the 2x6's and added 2x2 on the top boarder for added support.
I made this bed for my son on his 7th birthday. I used 4x4 posts. 1x6 for the top of the head board and foot board. Stained in red mahogany and coated with a clear gloss finish. This was my first major project and i am really happy with the results. I routered the edges of the tops with an ogee bit, routered the legs with a champhered bit and routeredb the front with a cove bit.
I followed your plans pretty closely. My daughters love it (2 and 3 years old)! We hope to get lots of years of use out of it, it is so solidly built!
This is perfect for my two boys. I can now get them to stop dropping their coats and bags on the floor as soon as they get home from school!
I made this chair from plans in Ana's book. Obviousy I modified the back to make the skull.
Super easy to make. I used all pallet wood for this project so the only cost was the screws.
built this to go around our adjustable bed. for the posts i took 2 select pine 5/4 (2x4) and 1 - 1x4 and glued them together and left a gap to slide the side rails (2 - 1x8's) into the post approx 2-3"s and then ran 2 screws from the side to anchor the side rails to the head/footboards
My wife and I have couldn't decide where to start our DIY projects, so we picked the Kentwood plans out of a stack and got to work.
Ours are fashioned out of two 1x 12 pine boards, (7/8 x 11 1/4) cut for size. There is a great mom and pop lumber yard about an hour from where we are, and has spectacular prices on just about every kind of wood...saves us about 67% off the box stores.
We had some cedar tongue and grove boards lying around, so I used the cedar for the side and door panels. We also opted to add a shelf to the interior, measuring 13' off the bottom deck.
We did not finish the interior, aside from sanding the shelves, and putting on a top coat.
The top of the nightstands are made with scrap tongue and grove pine wall panels my father-in-law had sitting in his wood shop.
Really fun, enjoyable first foray into the ana-white.com community. Gotta say, having a Kreg jig makes joinery a snap.
I had an old workbench (pic shown) and reused the 2 by 4s, 2 by 6s (that were supports under the work surface) and the 3/4 inch ply to make a 3 drawer cabinet.
The bases of the drawers were made from the top of the work bench which took some hefty sanding but I actually put the underside of the worktop as the upfacing side for the drawers as that was cleaner even though has some nail holes in places.
The drawer sides and fronts were made from some left over 1 by 4, 1 by 6 and 1 by 8 from my recent work station build.
All I had to buy was the drawer slides and pulls.
Finished in Varathane Carrington and 3 coats of Varathane Matte Poly. The drawers were finished in Minwax Special Walnut.
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:05
I would love to make this, but I cannot find the plans.
Had the hubby make this! Nice project. Thanks for sharing the plans
I bought a house and couldn't stomach buying something I could probably build myself. This is my first project and first furniture build. Besides buying the drill and screws the table was free. Didn't even buy a skill saw, just used a hand saw. The dimensions were dictated by the length of the pallet boards and width by the two end caps, so there were very few cuts to make.
Found plastic planter boxes for succulents (3 in picture) @ dollar store. I wanted to be able to switch out the center pieces and plan to rotate in herbs, ice, other flowers.
This project was totally made possible and inspired by others posting projects so I thought I should say thanks and post my own creation.
Loved the Jilly and Mia Workbench Console but didn't have the space. So, I chopped the width in half and used 2x6's for the top. Pocket holes used throughout and 4.5" casters and decorative clavos used for the red lipstick.
Well my wife bought 2 x 17” square seat cushions the problem was we didn’t have any stools to put them on so decided to enhance our front seating patio area with 2 solid 2x4 side tables that would double up as stools.
I based the design on Ana’s table design but decided to counter sink all the screws & cut plugs to suit so no screw heads could be seen, they turned out perfect & very robust, perfect for the U.K. weather, my wife finished them in grey outdoor paint to match the furniture, all in all they took only around 6hrs to make & paint.
Yes we are RENTERS, and yes, we sneakily “REMODELED” a tropical island style outdoor room, with pallets!
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Tue, 04/14/2015 - 22:59
thank you Ana !! i used to be a power tool phobia and you inspired me so much!! hugs and best wishes!
This was a fairly easy build following the plans. We changed the headboard slightly though.
I had to adjust the height and width of this project to fit on my wall in this corner. But I just LOVE how it came out. It's one of my favorite pieces of furniture in my whole house!
