Christmas gift for the in-laws
Added padded seat to bench lid
Olympic Home flat latex in "Home White"
Added padded seat to bench lid
After making the Kendal dresser for my cousin, she ask me to build her the small farmhouse table to put next to her glider. I had to make it smaller to fit her space but the plans were so easy to follow and just as easy to make the adjustments. Ana's plans are user friendly like that.
I also made the $10.00 ledges so the little guy can have a place for his stuffed animals and books.
The stain I used was the same as the Kendal dresser so it all matched beautifully in the room. I think this is about the 40th piece I've made from Ana's website since discovering it in January of this year. Am I hooked? I'd say so! Great plans!
My next project will be the toddler seats painted like animals from Killer B Designs that were featured today. I love them!
I have not done any wood working since high school some 30 years ago. I inherited a table saw, found these plans and thought 'why not?' I took my time with measuring, cutting etc. and the matress support pieces have a LOT of screws. This bed is SOLID. It holds my son and granddaughter easily. It disassembles and reassembles for moving so we had no trouble moving from the apartment to my son's new house. Do I need to say that I'm the hero grandpa for making this bed? My granddaughter has used this bed for a year and it's still as solid as day 1.
I loved the simplicity of this project. I scaled down the original size, to make the 1x3's 33 inches high by 22 inches wide. I also went with my kreg jig set at 1/2" and used 1" screws. I did this because I cracked the first board without even blinking when the kreg jig was set to a depth of 3/4", using 1 1/4" screws.
First Ana White build
Wed, 08/27/2014 - 16:36
Congrats on an awesome build! Great job, and I LOVE the finishes you used!
A modification of the plans from Shanty2Chic - built to fit the space. I eliminated the curves brackets - I wasn't able to pull those off without a bandsaw. Instead, the legs have black steele straps that will match hardware on the beams in the house.
Finally the 3 rd piece made for the COVID-19 Birthday Celebration outdoors for my husband and his twin! “ all together but socially distant” I made the Oudoor Simple Modern Chair (dining size) for the ends of the 2 tables! Again...I’m a nurse never having touched Power tools, let alone knowing what they were called! Ana made it possible for me to create these to celebrate outdoors my husband and his twin for their birthday during a Pandemic!
This is my version of the pedastal table.
Fri, 08/29/2014 - 07:18
It looks great! That finish on top is beautiful. :)
We took the plan from Ana and instead of the wood X's on the sides, we changed it to rope. We stained it a dark brown so this just gave it some more dimension... we love it!!
I finally finished my DIY Modern Adirondack Chairs! Frame made with 2x4 cedar lumber and seat and backs with 1x10 pine planks. Stained with Benjamin Moore Aborcoat silver grey semi-transparent stain with a clear coat. Used a free diy plan by Ana White with some slight modifications to make the chair back higher. Cost was a bit higher than expected but lumber has gotten more expensive during the Covid time.
Thanks Ana for the design and the YouTube video. I watched it at least 20 times!
I built 2 of these to go beside my queen farmhouse bed. I think I would put drawer slides on them if I were to build them again.
The crib was our last build project for our daughter's cowgirl nursery. My husband knew he wanted to build the crib long before we knew we were pregnant.
As a mechanical design engineer, he found crib dimensions online that put together a design of what we wanted in CAD. We wanted the end panels to look like barn doors. We also wanted the slat sides to look like the metal on a horse stall. This gave us the overall look we wanted for our cowgirl room!
We also built together a side table, closet system, barm bookshelf, and dresser/changing table. I cannot take any credit for the crib. This was all my husband's work. Excited to bring our daughter home to her complete nursery soon!
Sat, 08/30/2014 - 20:57
Such a lovely, heartfelt build! It's beautiful, and bound to be an heirloom. Great job!
Sun, 08/31/2014 - 12:51
What a beautiful build. He did a great job, and you can sleep soundly knowing it is safe since he is an engineer! I also love the barn bookshelf in the background of the pics.
I've wanted to build benches for my dinningroom table for years. When I first saw the plans for the spa bench 2 years ago I bookmarked it, saying thats the one. Now all this time later Ive finaly gotten to it! I modified my benches by making them longer, they are 48 inches, adding the dividers/supports to the inside to make 3 cubbie compartments, (I will eventualy put baskets under there to store stuff) and raising the bottom edging up a half an inch to create a lip to keep the baskets on. I made 2 benches, sanded and restained my table at the same time. the benches took about 3 hours and $50 each to build. Simular benches cost aobut $150 for the cheep particalboard ones, thank you so much Anna White for making this possible!
TV Toy Armoire 3/4 size
I modified the 3 drawer open console table design to fit in a somewhat narrower space.
Purchase poplar wood from Home Depot, was unable to find all pieces of wood in pine. Cut according to plan, sanded, used kreg jig for joints, (forgot wood glue until last piece).