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My husband and I built this dresser to use as a changing table in our daughters nursery. I explain the build process (with photos) in this blog post : http://mekhart.blogspot.com/2011/03/nursery-room-biggest-build-yet.html and the finishing process in this blog post : http://mekhart.blogspot.com/2011/04/nursery-room-finished-dresser.html . I'm so thankful to Ana...I love that almost every element of her nursery is home made!

We really liked the design of the console table. We built an entry way table and a coffee table to match. We did change some of the measurement to suit our particular needs. We are very happy with how this one turned out. Next we plan on making some end tables to match also.

We had our first American Girl Doll Christmas ... and it was a big hit ... the girls all love their American girl dolls.

So we decided to make them beds.  Found Ana project on line ... and it was so fast and easy, thank you.

We made 3 beds, from the supply list ....  and 1 cradle, from an old oak magazine rack we found at the thrift store ... turned out so cute.

And we are looking to make the couch and chair set.

Thanks you again,   Kim

I built this to house some free lettuce seeds. Please see the full story on my blog!

This was my second build, very easy with the plans. I wanted it flush with the wall so used a jig saw to cut notches in the bottom to fit around the baseboard. I was also covering an air vent, so I built a simple air diverter out of 1x's and bought a decorative vent cover of Amazon for $10...worked out much better than I thought it would. Painted with a flat black then a few coats of poly.

I made this dartboard Cabinet from pallets to give it a really rustic and weathered look. I stained it with rustoleum weathered wood accelerator. 

This is my very first furniture project. I'm happy with how it turned out.

Built this nightstand for my boy's bedroom- built the farmhouse headboards to match. Was a straightforward project. I actually bought a circular saw instead of having the store make the cuts- best decision ever. Much better to cut as I go along. 

This was from the farm house table plans and the finish I used was bar and table top resin that you pour on to get a mirror finish. It doesn't take very long at all to cut all the boards and put everything together with pocket hole screws. It just takes time for the paint, stain and top coat to dry.

For our wedding we wanted to make seating for our guests. We ended up making 16 chairs total over several weekends. We also made the pergola.

We needed a bookcase to fill a void in our living room and this was it. I altered the dimensions to increase the height to 72.5". I also added crown molding to the top which turned out nice. I used the same Bombay mahogany stain suggested by a previous post.

Hey yall!  This is Sara from OnHouseandHome.com with plans for my favorite build ever: my son's baby crib for less than $200. This is a super simple design that is fairly easy to build.  It's built from pine and poplar, both available at Lowe's or Home Depot, and I only used basic tools like a table saw, drill, kreg jig, and router to buil this.  The crib has survived a move to a new house and is currently housing my 2nd son so I can promise it's just as strong as it is stylish!  

My first project! A friend of my husband's came to visit for a weekend and was nice enough to show me how to use my handy dandy new air nailer. We had the bench put together in 15 minutes! And so began a beautiful friendship with furniture building...

Our niece recently moved to Virginia to live with us. I may or may not have been pinning ideas to a Pinterest Board http://pinterest.com/stoneybrookesty/teen-bedroom/ non-stop day and night from the moment I found out because I was so excited to get to decorate a “fun” room. Her only requests were that it include animal print and bright colors. After looking through dozens of inspiration pictures and taking a trip down the paint aisle at Lowes, she decided on bright pink (Valspar “First Kiss”), green (Valspar “Parakeet Green”), lavender (Valspar “Berries Galore”) and teal for her color scheme.

The headboard we scored for a cool $15 at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore and it just needed a coat of paint and a 1.5 yards of Nu-Suede fabric. We didn’t realize until we had the headboard home that it was sized for a queen and not a full so we had to do a little improv on the legs and attached a 12 inch section of 1 x 12 pine. These were leftover from the frame were no added cost.

We chose to make the Captain's storage bed from the Ana White plans because I wanted to make sure Tiff had plenty of room to put away all her books and make it easier to keep her room clean. The chevron storage bins are from Lowes. Which happened to have cheapest bins in fabric we liked and that fit when we were looking. We also found lots of good options at Target.

This 8ft dining table and bench was created with inspiration from Ana White (with a few modifications). It was made with all scrap wood except the table top. Full details of the table build (and kitchen remodel) can be found at www.chasingadreamblog.wordpress.com.