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We wanted to transition our two year old out of the crib and skip the toddler bed and this worked perfectly. 

I made the cuts over a lunch hour and assembled in one night. 

If you have never used a pocket jig, just practice on a piece of scrap. Also make sure you consider how you will attach the rails before beginning. Depending on what you use you may want to make the headboard more narrow to accommodate for the rails not being flush with the insides of the posts. 

I made steps out of the scraps from the outer rails and the slats. Our little guy loves it!

Built from full size bed plans from Jen Woodhouse. Very happy how this turned out. 

This has to be one of our favorite Ana projects so far! And our first using the Kreg Jig - which I now love!
Much to the dismay of the neighbor kids next door - it's not a candy stand. Nope, for now it's destined to be my little red potting bench.

My son wanted a bigger bed so when his friends and cousins sleep over they dont have to squeeze into his twin. My son is 12 by the way, so when I got a king I gave him my queen. I needed to raise it up because I knew I wanted to build a trundle to put under it. This bed is pretty heavy, very sturdy (even with 5 kids sleeping on it or jumping on it) I took the idea from my Malm bed from ikea but its a lot heavier and stronger

After moving to our new home, we needed an entertainment center to house our TV. I had build a DVD/Bookcase several years ago and I wanted the entertainment center to match design-wise. I was amazed how similar the Smith Media Wall is to the bookcase I built years ago--simple, clean lines with the moulding along the top.

I adjusted the plan to fit our TV and went with one cabinet door on each side instead of two. I also used some leftover beadboard for the cabinet panel inserts. I broke the first rule of carpentry and in a rush to finish, mismeasured the side hutch in comparison to the side base cabinet. (I actually had the correct measurements, I just made a calculation error when reading the plans I quickly drew up. Usually, I'm meticulous with plans, but with so many projects to do, I rushed these plans and hopefully learned from my mistake)

I changed the dimensions and design slightly but used the grandy plans as a starting point. Some changes had to be made due to wood choices. I had to flip the rollers behind the doors as they came out too thick, but I like the look of seeing the whole door. Overall, I’m very pleased with how this turned out.

72”x34”x16.5”

I worked on this by myself for 1 month...i am exhausted, still need to glue the flase drawer fronts, but am overall happy with it, still functional.

I made this bed for my daughter's birthday using poplar wood. Since I can only work at night after the kids are in bed I think it took me about 3 nights working an hour or two each night to build it and then a Saturday afternoon to finish it. I finished it using a Miniwax pre-stain, Miniwax English Chestnut stain, and then completed it with a couple coats of polyurethane.

She actually helped me at the end to stencil on the names of her dolls, a couple butterflies and a flower on the bottom of the top bunk so her baby had a pretty picture to look at while she slept :). She loves the bed.

We also worked together to make her cousin a single bed that I will share photos of also. Thank you so much for sharing the plans with us!

The plans were easy to follow and the results were great. These pieces are Christmas gifts for my sister 

First Project. Finished it all except the hardware just in time for my Mother-in-laws birthday party. Pictures are from my phone decorated for the party w/o the hardware, and then after, finally complete with the hardware.

Needed a small table for our new house so I decided to build one, I followed the design fairly close. The only creative difference and I'm going to pretend I meant to do it was that I rotated the squares 90 degrees.

A few tips / things to look out for:

- The angled legs are tricky to line up/attach but you can use alot of woodfiller there to fill in the gaps and you can barely notice it once it is all together.

- When attaching the slats to create the squares for the top, add 5 pocket hole screws to each side, when you go to attach them you will thank me, 3 on each side of them doesn't hold as tight as you need it too.

- on the underside of the top I also added some scrap squares of 1x4 under the small triangles to stop them flexing, attached to the 2x6 with pockethole screws.

- Palm Sander - should be listed as required tool, to level out the top after assembly I went through a pack of 120 grit discs.

- There is not much room for error if you only have 2 8 foot 2x6's so cut them a couple blade widths bigger than you measure and sand them down to exact size.

as I used SPF for the table top I think I am going to get a piece of tempered glass cut for the top to protect the soft wood and give me an easy surface to clean.

End Table

For my second project I wanted to build something a little more difficult than a shelf.  The hubby showed me how to use our power tools and I was unstoppable.  I chose this great bench because it fit the feel of our house and I wanted an entryway spot to sit while putting on shoes. 
The finishing took much longer than it actually took to build the bench.  I thought it would be more difficult to get the precise angle measurements  to make the supports under the bench, but it was not bad at all.  I can 't believe I built this pretty bench!  I have the building fever now!

sofa

This oversized reclaimed barn wood dining table measures a whopping 96″ by 54″ – that’s quite a dining room table, with seating options to easily fit ten people.  You can comfortably sit three adults on each side of the table, while also accommodating two adults on each end.  In a pinch, you could actually fit four adults on each side of this table while having the two still sit at the ends; having four kids on the sides would not be a problem at all.

This table top was constructed from 2×6 and 2×8 beams, while the base was built out of 4×6 and 4×4 posts. I believe “behemoth” may be a proper word to describe it, as I even had to deliver the top in multiple pieces and assemble it on site.  The benches were also constructed mostly from 2×6 beams harvested from the same barn as the material used in the table itself.  We added a light coat of Provinicial stain to help bring out some uniformity in the color, and finished with a few coats of liquid wax to help protect the table.  We informed the client of the trade offs of using a wax instead of a polyurethane, but they really preferred the “softness” of the wax finish and understood that they will have to reapply every year.

More pictures are available on our blog: http://famousartisan.com/oversized-reclaimed-barnwood-dining-room-table/

This was the first project I tackled by myself. I think I spent about $70 and used pine.