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Using the Michaela Island plans, I modified them for this croquet-inspired island, complete with black iron foot rail, sewing spindle drawer-pulls, and iron-supported cantilevered top. The extra boards making up the overhang are also supported by a trio of 1/2-inch dowels drilled through several of the planks.

The top was stained using several colors, with sanding in-between, and finished with paste wax.

The bottom shelf is supported, albeit not visibly, using a croquet mallet head.

I needed a nice way to hide our TV electronics and at the same time serve as a bench for seating. I could not find plans for ANYTHING like this anywhere! I decided to take the Rustic X Console table plans and change the dimmensions around and it worked fantastic. I can now hide everything I need to in the baskets with the wiring exiting through the basket handholes and at the same time I do not have a useless media cabinet taking up space, but instead have additional seating in our living room for 3 more people! 

This was my first furniture project, and I modified these plans slightly to get 2 drawers, as well as a smaller depth of the desk.  I took this photo before I added drawer pulls, but I love how it turned out!

Pretty easy project.  Check for square often.  It will pay off when putting the shelves in.  The "x" on the sides was the trickiest.  Cost was approximately $100.

I made the top removable by attaching blocks to the inside corners of the apron and using a spade bit to drill a hole.  Then attached hanger bolts to the table top and fastened with washers and wingnuts.

My table is without the X's because I was having some trouble with the angles. I am just starting out, so I think it turned out pretty well!

Treated myself to a load of new electrical tools and bought a kreg jig, this was my first project of this size for many years and also using the pocket hole method, my wife was very happy with the end result as was I. The doors, all made from scratch using the jig also finish the shrine off well. I'll be hunting around on the site for a new project soon, this one took me a lot longer to complete than I anticipated, it ook months before I finally managed to finish if off but then I had an issue with the amount of time available I could spend on it on a weekly basis.

I made this for my sons pirate party. It has an entrace under the plank to the pirateships "basement"

This is my first project.  With some help from my husband (navigating the power tools-- the table saw in particular) it was completed in a few weeks.   We live in Army housing, so I never really know what kind of space we will get. Inevitably, there is never enough storage, so this will find a home in any new home we might live in.  I used beadboard for the back, stained minwax special walnut. The paint is Benjamin Moore serenity blue- and then I used acrylic polyurethane- adding another level of kid resistance;)  Great plans Ana, and I am so excited to do my next project!

Modern style coffee table

Hello, I'm doing furniture with wooden pallets and I found your awesome website with nice explanations and plans so I decided to make this nice farmhouse table but with wood from shipment wooden pallets.
Thank you very much for all your work and plans !

I will make other furnitures from your plans with wooden pallets :D and post the brags here soon.

We made this in just over 2.5 hours with the kids "helping."  We made it a bit taller, with the seat at 19 inches, so the leg pieces were 25.25 inches instead of 18.25.  Because of this, we will probably add two supports across each side as it seems a bit wobbly when the kids all wiggle on it.  Now we finally have a seat where all 3 kids can sit together to play on the computer.  Thanks for the plans!

I used the Rekourt plans for the most part, but I did change it a bit. I needed a smaller table, so I adjusted the plans to accommodate this. The table is 5 feet long with matching benches that are 4 feet. I eliminated the 2nd cut on the 2x4s used to construct the table base to simplify the look. I also made custom benches to match, as I could not find any plans that were an exact match on the site. This is the first time I've built anything, and it took some trial and error and a lot of muscle. It was well worth it though!

We needed to organize in the laundry room. This was the perfect idea.

This was a project to use some pieces of left over ¼” thick aromatic cedar closet lining board.  I cut off the tongues and grooves with the sliding miter saw, and calculated the measurements for the box to fit the size of the wood.  For this build I used the micro-pin nailer with compressor, and ½” headless pin nails.  The finished box measures 4 1/8” tall, 6” long, and 3 3/8” wide.

Inside, a divided lift-out tray sits on rails made from small pieces of the cedar board glued to the inside.  The addition of an extra decorative board to the top made it ¾” thick, to work with a regular knob.  The inside of the box stayed unfinished to preserve the cedar fragrance.  This was an afternoon project.