4 chairs to sit around firepit
Made the chairs to sit around our firepit .Live in AZ.
Made the chairs to sit around our firepit .Live in AZ.
Built this castle loft bed for my 2-year-old after seeing the plans and building the princess playhouse loft bed for my 4-year-old. Using stone textured paint worked well. Also, used an old slide a neighbor gave me. One change I made was that my wife really liked the toy chest stairs, so I made those again instead of the coves called for in the plans.
I used a larger, premade top from Home Depot to turn the stool into a side table.
Thanks for the plans
This was our (my husband built, I applied finish) second such table. We first use these plans about 6 years ago, and revisited to make this for my mother. One modification we added to both, was we built a cleat system under the table top. This way it fit snuggly over the base, but it can be easily moved when necessary. Thanks for the plans- lots of compliments on this one!
Mon, 09/28/2020 - 09:37
I'm sure your mother loves it, it looks amazing in her space!
Doll house book shelf: made this for a friend and her daughters. At first I didn't realize my chop saw could not cut the 12 inch wood, had to use my circular with clamps. I think if I build again I might try mdf as it is cheaper or pocket drill some wood together.
This was a bit harder to build than I thought it would be had help from hubby!
I used the Smiling Mudroom as a starting point, but had to make some modifications for size and to accomodate the fact that I couldn't secure much to the wall behind the bench because there is a pocket door in that wall.
The main difference in my plans is that the sides of the cubby/bench are continuous instead of broken into Cubby, Divider, and Bench. I think it would have been easier to keep things square (which I didn't, really) and certainly could have moved it all by myself without any husband help (but he needed to feel useful, right?) if I had built it as separate pieces. But, it was worth a shot.
Up close it's a bit rough looking here and there because I got the plywood that is only sanded on one side (Home Depot guy was less than helpful when I asked to find the furniture plywood). So I had to do a lot of extra sanding and filling myself and at some point I just threw up my hands and said "RUSTIC! It's done."
Minor errors aside, I am really happy with this. It was my first big project, and first one with the Kreg jig, and I had fun.
Wed, 10/08/2014 - 20:40
If there are any "minor errors" on your build, they're not visible in the picture! It looks gorgeous to me! :)
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I used the plans from Handmade Haven and added a pencil drawer with dovetails
I recently built the Clara table and the four dollar stack-able chairs for my two kids as a Christmas present. Like most plans on this site, they were easy to follow and the materials were easy to find. I own a Kreg pocket hole jig, so putting the pieces together was really easy. It took me about two hours a chair and around three to assemble the table. I used glue along with the pocket holes, so the joints are nice and strong.
I sanded and finished the table and chairs with a stain called "Early American" and I thought it turned out nicely. I also coated the table top with a polyurethane, to give it a nice, durable finish. Not only did it add some shine to the top, but also made the #2 pine I used much more kid resistant!
Thanks again for the great plans, I look forward to building more.
I was really looking forward to building this coffee table for a while. I followed the base plans for the Rustic X Coffee table and added my own twist. I planked 1x3's for the bottom instead of using a solid bottom shelf to give it a "beachy" feel. I also used 1x6's for the top instead of 2x's to give it a lighter feel. I framed out the top so there were no exposed edges. Instead of the X's, I took 2x2's and angled them in the front and back. I know it's very different than the original plans but I had this design in my head and I absolutely love it! Thanks for the plans!
Sun, 10/26/2014 - 14:08
Hi! Sorry it took so long to respond! I did the dimensions the same, so I kept the top 52" x 27.5". I did a 45 degree cut for the outside boards, making the longest sides 52" and 27.5". Then I calculated the distance for the middle boards. Since I used 1x6's, which are actually 5.5" wide, I did 52" minus 5.5" minus 5.5", since there are two end pieces to the frame, which gave me 41" for the inside boards. But measuring the inside boards when the outside frame is attached is a better way because then you know exactly what to cut them at. Just make sure the top's frame angle's are cut precise and you should have no problem! Hope that makes sense and if you have any other questions let me know!
Fri, 07/03/2015 - 09:24
This is my favourite take on the X table. Great idea! It looks fantastic.
My wife wanted a daybed for our guest room and this one was perfect. Thank you Ana and Stacy for the plans. My wife loves it!
This project took regular pine, pocket whole screws. This took a weekend to build
This is a variation from a brag photo I saw on the Modified Twin Farmhouse Bed. I built two for my girls and also created plans of the variation. We love these beds! They are so beautiful!
Reclaimed this wood from a >100 year old home that was being renovated. This is just the couch portion, I also built the sectional part. I really like how it came out.
based on the loft plans. like other mods, I made the step a bit different. more vertical.
no screws. all bolted together. 3/8" bolts. the posts for docks were made from cut trees. neighbor did the sewing from my design. posts are 2 2x4s glued and dowel and cut down in size to be different. Everything overdone. vertical dowels are supposed to make it ship like. the galley is a bookcase. the nephew and my in-laws love it. way too much time went into it.
This was my first table, great directions from Ana White and other postings. Turned out great, the main addition I had was to add some supports for the ends as it felt like it needed it.
It was a long and brutal process, but so is child birth and I did that twice so... I was definitely a beginner at the start. I learned A LOT from this process and it paid off in the end! Couldn't be happier with the outcome!
Loved this plan! Slightly modified to include a shelf.
After my wife pinned the triple pedestal table, I took a look at the plans and redid them for a double pedestal table 78"x40". This is the first wood project that I have done in close to 12 years, it was good to get back to wood and I look forward to builing some more.
To build I used mostly all pallet wood. This made things interesting because not one drawer was the same and had to custom fit each drawer.