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Inspired by many projects here on Ana's page, my "Mega Mom" board is not just a pretty face, it's also great at multitasking. It helps calm the chaos and juggle the daily influx of papers with the same ease that it manages a quick message or coats.

The "Mega Mom" board has a chalkboard, shelf, and hooks for coats. It also has letter bins for important papers, a magnetic board to hold the family calendar, additional hooks for keys and a bucket to hold chalk or loose change. Our ceilings are 9' and I'm 5'10", so I made it big and hung it high to make the best use of the space. The finished board measures 37 1/2" wide by 30 1/4" tall. If you like what you see, you can find a materials list and more detailed drawings on my blog http://theelusivebobbin.blogspot.com/2013/03/plans-for-mega-mom-board.h…

My Dad made a few cutting boards for christmas.  I've added a few additional photos and tips on my blog -  http://www.woodworkingfourdummies.com/blog/more-cutting-boards.

thanks for looking.

Ian

I followed the plans to a T with this one. I wish I had made the seat supports longer so I could have the seats sit a little further from the table for bigger kids. I drilled a hole for the umbrella in the table top and the cross support. Sanded for hours, primed, and painted 3 coats. I will add feet to the legs so the legs aren't sitting flat on the ground, with the potential to rot. 

Took 2 hours to build, 2 hours to sand, and many hours to paint multiple coats. Very solid and should last a long time! 

We needed a new coffee table in the family room, one that went with the ever changing decor. One of my neighbors threw out a rather nice, but older wooden framed window that they had been holding onto for who knows how long. My wife actually grabbed it out of the garbage with both the kids sitting in the car while she loaded it into her SUV in dress clothes.

Anyway, I broke down the window into two sections and used one of the sections to build this table. The area around the window is made out of 2x4 and the table skirt is 1x4. I bought the turned legs from www.osbornewood.com (colonial coffee table leg). This project was made a lot easier by using my kreg jig to attach the skirt to the table legs as well as the top to the skirt. Knowing that I would have two young kids playing around and setting things on the table I placed the glass panes with plexi that I bought from Lowes. This will be safer as well as more durable in the future.

This chair is for my son and is a first build. The plans were super easy to follow and the whole thing went very smoothly. I used my jigsaw to round off the top edges just a bit and I really like how it turned out. Thanks for the free plans!

I have a gambrel style barn roof in the house I built. Space is tight and the double pitch of the roof made for having to get clever. Saw the plans for grandy sliding door console got out the graph paper and went to work. There were lots of cuts and had to rip some wood with a table saw but was not terribly difficult just time consuming. 

cross between a kitchen island and the x frame console table. LOL

Cross breeding furniture, gotta love it! :0)

Farmhouse tables I built thanks to Ana whites plans on her website makes building a lot easier knowing what materials to buy. I look on here all the time for new projects.

We needed a guest bed for our guest bedroom. So I built the storage areas under the bed out of plywood and boxed them up. The bed would probably look better with a headboard, but we decided to just do that curtain style headboard.

I had seen different beds similar to this, and I just had those in mind when I started. I didn't follow any specific plan except for what I had in my head.

It was painted with an oil-base white paint.

I could have sworn this project was inspired by a stool I saw on here but I just spent way too long trying to find it.  I wanted these to match our bed frame, which is really tall combined with our mattress.  We needed stools that could be comfortably stood on with two feet, but could also slide under the bed when not in use.  This was my first "finished" DIY project besides a dog house I made from plans from Lowe's.  This was the first time I planned it and created it myself.  They are very sturdy and look like they came with the set.  I am very happy with them. I took my time on them because I was doing a lot of learning and wanted to get it right.  I distressed the wood with chisels, files and carving knives.

Loved this project!  We had an old headboard so my wife came up with the idea to cut off the top posts and use them as legs.  

Modified the dimensions to 13 inches deep, 40 inches wide and a lower clearance of 4 inches to accommodate a vent diverter for an exsisting heat vent.

I used Maple Plywood (3/4 inch) for the bench, and 1/2 inch for the back (to allow maximum seating depth on the bench).  The paint was leftover Valspar reserve paint from a recent bathroom project... and the paint dipped baskets were found at a local store called "the christmas tree shops" for under 25 dollars for both!

The project came in at just under $150 - well below our budget if we had purchased something in store. It was mounted to the wall for safety, as we have a dare devil toddler! 

My husband and I built beds for our daughters' american girl dolls for Christmas. It was the first time we'd ever built anything and we learned a lot. So fun!

I changed the dimensions to fit the entire width of my framed pea gravel patio and stenciled a design on the table top.

This was a super easy, super simple project that took me about an hour and a half and was essentially free! Had I not had the blower fan given to me, I'd have used the leaf blower we have that has barely ever been used.