Rustic Bench
This rustic bench is perfect for our remodeled bathroom. It is made from post oak lumber harvested from my property and milled myself using a friend’s sawmill. No stain, just polyurethane.
This rustic bench is perfect for our remodeled bathroom. It is made from post oak lumber harvested from my property and milled myself using a friend’s sawmill. No stain, just polyurethane.
I was looking for a "super easy console table" and once I was ready to build it, I mustered the confidence to try a more complex table top design. Using pocket hole joinery, 2"x2" legs and supports, scrap 1"x2" "blocks" for the herringbone pattern, scrap 1/2" 8"x4' plywood, 3/4"x1/2" pieces to frame the top, and much wood glue, I built this 8.5" narrow console table for under $30. The plan shared on this site was one of the inspiration pieces that helped me believe I could do this too!
Wed, 02/27/2013 - 19:06
I'm going to have to copy you now, you know! What a fabulous idea, fabulously implemented!
In reply to Really beautiful! by romanweel
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 00:17
=D It was satisfying to make, although watching glue and wood filler dry made me feel like I was the most impatient person in the world. Thank you for your kindness!
My master bath was in desparate need of storage, and as usual, it was Ana's site to the rescue. I built this Ladder Shelf exactly from Ana's 'Painter's Ladder Shelf' plans. I built and had it painted in about 2 days. Now I finally have a place to store towels. Thanks again, Ana!
We altered the plans to match our kitchen island to our 10-seat farm table my husband made. The top design is a replica of our table. We then added some wrought iron hooks and iron bottle opener for detail as well as corner plates to match our dining table. We decided to leave out the drawers and add a little open cubby for storage instead. Will look great with our rustic, country theme in our house!
I made this kitchen cabinet to replace the one we had there. The one we had was originally a peninsula. We had a severe water leak and had to replace the wood floor. We decided to swing the peninsula against the wall under the wine rack I made and posted earlier. The peninsula cabinet had some pretty severe water damage and only had 1 drawer and cabinets. We didn’t like having to dig for things so I made all drawers and we love it. I made this from pine using some of the techniques I learned from Ana and have incorporated into my other projects. I used Kreg’s pocket hole jig for almost all the joinery and Kreg’s drawer slide jig for the drawer slides. I used Hickory ball bearing, soft close drawer slides. It is painted Rust-Oleum Heirloom White satin with a semi gloss poly.
this project called for sewing the cushion covers, but i was to lazy to take out the sewing machine, so instead I stapled the fabric and it turned out pretty good if I do say so!! thanks for the plans!!
Tue, 02/26/2013 - 16:07
Oh, very nice! I am making one of these right now. I need to go out to get the foam before I can proceed. I'm excited. It's great to see how nice yours turn out!
Well this was definitely the most challenging so far because we decided to modify the kitchen island plans to incoporate the tilt out trash bin. Very pleased with the results. Extended the back of the island to accomodate a 11" deep trash bin. Slim trash cans fit perfect. Found a gift wrapping bin for half price after Christmas and it is a perfect fit and 13 gallon bags fit great.
The x's were definitely a challenge because it changed the angles and it would have been best to just mark it with the board before finishing the whole box.
Now we just need to paint the cabinets and change the countertops and paint the kitchen walls. Not happening anytime soon, but at least the island is done.
Mon, 01/05/2015 - 19:18
Thanks Ana! We love your site. We've never built anything before finding it a couple months ago and now we can't stop.
Loved the ease of making this chair but the modern look needed to be adjusted. 1x4, 1x5, 1x6.... tried a bunch and landed on 1x5’s and couldn’t be happier. Easy to do a chair in a day start to finish (build, sand, paint, dry, protective coat).
7 ft long gigantic sideboard. Removed the options for the drawers and extended the cabinet doors for extra storage needed. My favorite project to date.
Built this pet kennel end table from Ana's plans for my dad for Christmas. Only changes I made were to the dimensions to better fit my dads mid-sized dog and the top which I made by laminating a few boards rather than sheet material. Everything but the side panels is oak. Plans were really simple and I'm really happy with the finished product. As soon as I revealed it on Christmas morning his dog knew who it was for and ran right in and laid down with his new bone. Very awesome payoff to say the least.
This built was easy with Ana white blue prints I used 2x10 for the top and also made the matching bench.
thanks Ana white
Was my first DIY project and was surprised as to how easy it was. The directions in the plan were spot on and look forward to future projects.
My Dad came to visit for Christmas and he knew for months that all I wanted to do was have him build this table!! We used pine and found really cheap legs on amazon that were being discontinued. They were $15 each!! We plan on having a large family so we made this to fit 8 people. There is enough room to add chairs to seat 12 for parties and events though.I got all of the chairs off Craiglsist for free and just painted and recovered the seats. I am totally in love with this table! Thank you Ana White for the plans and my Dad for his hard work!
Thanks to Ana for her inspiration and such great plans. My wife wanted a taller headboard and footboard so we added to the overall height of both. Everything else is pretty much per Ana's specs. Our big box stores here wouldn't know a straight board if it slapped them in the face. After putting my headboard and footboard together the gaps looked terrible. So I decided to veneer both with 5 mm underlayment ripped 7.5 inches wide and angled to 45 degrees on each side. Once that was glued and nailed into place both pieces looked much better. We decided to do without a box spring so the deck/frame is built from 2 2x10's, 5 2x4's, 6 2x4 "feet", and two sheets of 1/2 inch plywood. This thing weighs a ton!
Sun, 10/18/2020 - 08:43
How many inches did you add to the headboard and footboard?
Are you looking to make a small planter for your succulents? There are many different shapes and sizes out there that you could choose from. Some planters are easy to make and some are more complex. The planter in this tutorial looks a bit intimidating to make, but it’s actually quite simple. Follow my step-by-step plans on how to build a DIY Vertical Star Planter for Succulents.
Since this project does not require any large wood pieces, I’ve built it using scrap wood that I had in my scrap pile. The overall size of this star planter is about 18” wide. You could easily adjust these plans to make the star any size you want.
See my website for additional pictures and how I've built it, TheDIYPlan.com
We turned the Playhouse loft bed into a "Barn" for my son who wanted his room to be all about horses.
I built this step stool for my son's new "big boy" bed. I built the bed and ended up being a little high for him. So I decided he'd probably like to have a little stool to use to help him get up in the bed. He loves it.
I made it with scrap wood that I had from making his bed. I love the simple design and it is very easy to build. I did use a set of metal stamps and stamp "GROW" onto the stool. We used milk paint and then sealed it with Hemp Oil.
Thanks for all of the plans, love to create stuff!
I built this step stool pretty quickly using the plans from Ana-White.com. I sanded the final project and stained it in weathered gray. I applied a couple of coats of polyurethane diluted with mineral spirits all over and a couple of extra coats on the top. Finished with a couple of dresser handles.
Followed Katie Nightstand plans, but stained the top and both shelves. Open areas were built to accommodate some wire baskets we found at the Container Store.
Not too bad for a beginner. We couldn't find the bolds, but we did add the L brackets.
Here's our experience: http://wearegrownupsnow.blogspot.com/2017/04/diy-rustic-x-end-table.html