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Instead of mixing pine and cedar, I used all cedar.  I mounted the panels to the legs flush at the top so that I could add the trim pieces.  Finised with Cedar Timber Oil.

Trim and all cedar increased the price to about $35 each.  Of course cedar prices are really high right now.

Wanted to make a table for my knife making projects. Often watch tutorials online so I built a frame to house 2 computer monitors and attached a spare laptop to the underside of table. Dimensions are pretty close to original plan, little taller (with the obvious height for back 2x4's. Sheet of plexiglass over monitors. Added baseboard trim to create "pool" for tabletop, adding a bottlecap epoxy top later.

I needed a good sturdy bunk bed for my boys and I didn't want to spend a bunch of money. Every bunk bed I looked at seemed to wobble and cost a fortune so I ventured off to make my own! I came across the Side Street Bunk plans and did a little modifiying to make them work with the mattresses we had. I absolutley LOVE the way they turned out and my boys are so excited to finally have their bunk beds! Thanks Ana!

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.

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!

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 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...

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.

We made this sling chair for our 2 year-old grandson, Cedric.  As you can see, he loves relaxing in it as he 'reads' his books. My husband made the frame and I made the sling. I also added a headrest, made from the same fabric as the sling backing with an appliqued starfish and stuffed with a bit of polyeser fiberfill I had on hand.  The frame was made from select pine and was sealed with clear outdoor varnish. I made the sling and headrest with indoor/outdoor canvas from JoAnn Fabrics so they can be easily cleaned and will hold up to outdoor use. Fabrics are P/K Lifestyles Outdoor Fabric Stars Collide Nautical (front) and Solarium Outdoor Canvas Fiera Marinem Outdoor Canvas Fiera Marine (backing).  Since they are 54 inches wide, I have enough fabric left to make slings for two more chairs.  Now, I just have to talk my husband into making more frames! 

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

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.