Octagon picnic table
I love our new table.
I love our new table.
Every so often, we purchase several baby chicks. Our kids really enjoy watching them grow and develop throughout their growth phases. When the chicks were old enough to spend the night outside, I’ve built them a Mobile Triangle-Shaped Chicken Coop to live in. Once they are full-grown, they will be moved to a larger coop. I wanted to have a mobile chicken coop so that I could easily move it around the backyard.
There are so many different chicken coops out there. They come in various shapes and sizes. Most of them are built to be stationed in one place, but I wanted to try a mobile coop.
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I found the Little Sloane desk and bookshelf on the Land of Nod site. I thought it would be a great bday gift for my niece, who has a very small bedroom. I did not have an actual building plan to use, but I loosely based my plan off the Leaning Bookshelves project in Ana's book. The picture I have is when I first gave it to her and then a few with it in use.
Fri, 04/12/2013 - 13:23
Hi Jaime, thank you so much for posting!!! We've had a ton of requests for this project - mind if I draw up plans to share? Thank you so much - it is beautiful - and I love the smile! Ana
Mon, 04/15/2013 - 17:35
Hi Ana, Thank you so much for sharing this project! I just uploaded some pictures of the desk and bookshelf in use. Thanks!
Fri, 04/12/2013 - 14:53
Thank you! Please do draw up and share the plans. It was a fun build!
For my second project I decided to make a small dresser to match the Camp Loft bed we bult last week. I must say it was a great success. The only challenging aspect was installing the drawer slider properly. This took quite a bit of time to get it right. Everything else was a breeze. In the top drawer I added a little divider so I can seperate undies from socks.
This is my one and only woodworking project so far, and I am so proud of it. I used reclaimed 2x6 redwook deck boards for the top and had to modify the design to make the table a little bigger. I also added an umbrella hole to the center. I'm hoping to add benches one of these days, but with two daughters and a baby, I'm not sure when that will be! Thank you, Ana, for your design!
With no experience but a lot of time during Covid, we tackled this project and love the results. Queen bed and nightstands. Made from pine, stain is Saman Wood Stain 013 - IRON EARTH. We modified the night stands to be 4 inches narrower to fit the room a little better.
Ana's spa bench inspired me this project. My shoe rack had been screaming 'foul' for a long time and I had been on the market looking for a three-tiered shoe bench. The benches I saw online were either too small or too expensive. So when I found this plan, I said "why not?" So the rest is history.
This is a great bed for todlers.
Built the corner hutch from Ana's super easy plans! LOVE IT!
http://www.ana-white.com/2010/12/plans/corner-cupboard
Made a cutout for my thermostat on the wall. Gotta love building what you need for your space!
I used the no pocket hole plans and as per someone's great recommendation - I moved the stretcher supports to the inside of the legs to give a little more room when the chair is pulled out and someone is sitting on an end. I also made a planer tool for my table saw so I could square off the edges of the table top boards and the bench seat boards. The boards then sat closer to each other so I don't have places for crumbs to fall down between the boards. I did have a couple of sections that didn't quite match up and used resin to fill those areas after staining the boards. I then used a lacquer finish (Watco clear satin lacquer). The stain is Minwax English Chestnut but I did use the Minwax wood conditioner prior to the stain for a more even uptake of the stain. All great recommendations from folks on this site!
I meant this cupboard to be more like Patrick's Jelly Cupboard...but my infernal "let's customize everything!" attitude morphed her into what she now is. The open bottom shelf is exactly sized to hold glass milk bottles awaiting return to our local dairy (I am SO lucky!), the bottom shelf behind the doors is large enough for sidewalk salt and potting soil, and the upper shelf behind the doors holds bug spray, spray paint, and odds and ends. The top shelves hold baskets...one for library books and store returns, one for things that need to go farther (like to our relatives), and one just for looks. I guess.
The bottom construction is entirely plywood. The face trim is 1x2 pine, the footer is a 1x6 poplar board, and the top of the construction (including the short support legs for those shelves) is poplar (from a garage sale - I saw it back there, asked a price, and walked away with a $5 board of poplar at 1x12@10' - it never hurts to ask!). The doors are cedar (leftovers from the bench construction to the left) with hardware cloth we had on hand from garden projects.
The body is painted in an off-the-shelf Behr white, and the doors are unfinished cedar, inset with a magnet closure at the top center. All the other hardware came from garage sales. If you can see them, there are a couple of cross supports at the back of the piece...they are discarded hardwood floor boards, stripped, sanded, and tung oiled.
I absolutely love my mudroom now! It looks like I spent a fortune getting this tailored, custom look, when all I really had to spend was about $70 total (including bench, coat rack, AND cupboard), plus some creative juices and elbow grease! I keep walking back in there to just stand and glow over it...
Wed, 04/17/2013 - 13:02
WOW! First off, the workmanship is stunning, and I love how you constructed the doors. The fact that it was only $50-70 only adds to my liking, but it really just seems so... Natural! Does that make sense? Like, it just looks like it belongs there and is cozy and inviting. Truly amazing job!
I decided to alter the plans to make it 15.5" deep 6' tall and the inside width @ 55" to accommodate a 55" TV. I used bead board as my wife recommended to give it a little more charactor. I also decided to have the drawers and doors on the bottom fit around the openings. Making this in different dimensions and tweeting it made it a much longer project and also having to paint it with 3 coats was time consuming. That being said I am pretty happy with the outcome. Now I just need to start on the side units. I also wanted to thank Ana for all of these wonderful plans. I have done many of these projects and hope to do so many more.
This was by far my favorite project! I haven’t decided on a finish yet. I think i will stain it but still trying to decide.
Yesterday I built two of these for my wife and I's room, we just moved from Hawaii to Arizona. The plans were clear and simple, and the end product turned out awesome. Next I will tack the dresser/tv stand. Thank you Ana
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 21:09
This nightstand is absolutely stunning!!!! Thank you so much for posting, I love it!
Essentially cut the original plans in half and modified a few things. The major change aside from the size is that is I used cedar plank for the top. I did this because I wanted a more professional look and I simply could resist the beautiful grain of the cedar. Pocket holed and glue cedar prices together after running them through the jointer. Also I connected the top to the frame via L brackets. Sealed the top with 3 layers of satin polyurethane. Apples poly with a 6 in microfiber brush dampened in mineral spirits. Also I painted the majority of the base with a foam roller. Put on slide plates on the bottom to adjust for slight unlevelness. Enjoy!
Our new 2x6 outdoor sofa looks great, We liked the look of the 2x6s better then the 2x4s, and we added a taller back to support the cushions better, plus we gave the back a 12 slant for more comfort. Cushions are from Lowe's, 3 fit perfect.
Play kitchen for my 2 year old. She especially loves turning the stove knobs and her own magnetic refrigerator! Used the plans as a base model and modified them for my specific needs and wants.
This was my first attempt at a farm table. I found the fancy x plan for inspiration. The length is 6ft. I had to modify all of the measurements. All of the boards came off my grandad's old barn. The posts are laminated together from guide posts from his corral. There is a lot of history and character to the table. I did have to make the bench to match it. I'll post pictures of that soon. Most importatnly, my wife loves it!!!! Happy wife, happy life!!!
Mon, 05/18/2015 - 12:00
Hello, awesome job on the table. Was wondering if you would mind sharing the table top dimensions. I have a smaller space and was thinking of modifying to make something in the 6ft range as well. Thanks
Took a little longer than I anticipated. By far the hardest part was finding straight boards at Home Depot. Used Cedar 4x4s for the post to avoid treated wood. Had to make a few adjustments for our king mattress, but well worth it. Bed and platform came in right at $300 for the wood, screws, paint, etc. Thanks for the plans!
I made these for my granddaughter out of various repurposed wood.