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Laundry Basket Dresser/Kids Dresser
I was reading a book called "ADD Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life", and one thing that stood out to me is that people struggling with ADD RARELY are able to fold and put away their laundry. Well, with 3 little boys (ages 5, 4 and 2)and being a single mama, this is amplified for me. One of the suggestions the book had was to give up the though of folding clothes and get colorful baskets to throw the clothes into once they came out of the drier. . . I immediately remembered seeing these, and I thought, "PERFECT!!!!"
I've made for 2 out of the three boys, but will make for myself and the youngest soon. The older boys now have their own dresser; shirts on top, pants in the middle, socks and underwear on the bottom. Now all I have to do is sort straight into the baskets and put away! Problem solved!
I didn't put the backs on these, mainly because I was being cheap, and they seemed sturdy enough without. I may add backs at a later date if needed.
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Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:31
I tried to make mine without
I tried to make mine without backs and they just fell instantly. I had to seriously beef them up to avoid throwing away all the wood.
Distressed Rustic x console
Really like the plan for this table, just not enough space. So I decided to shrink the overall length to 45 1/2 and then just adjusted from there. Stained the entire project and painted the base. After some sanding to distress, I poly coated the entire project. Staining the top and the X's to match was my wife's idea. It came out great. This was only the second thing I have ever built, and I have to say the Kreg Jig made it fun, rather than frustrating and stressful. My first project was from the adirondack table plan, it came out great too. So glad I found your site!
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Mon, 09/30/2013 - 09:29
beautiful finsh
The finish on this is absolutely perfect. I built the workbench console table for my dining area a few months ago. Really like how it turned out, but have been considering selling it and building this to go in its place. This may push me in that direction again. Excellent job.
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 17:33
I used varythane dark walnut
I used varythane dark walnut stain on the entire project and then painted over with glidden flat in a sage green. Once I 220 sanded the entire project, which aged the green, and took the paint down to stain in areas, I coated twice with varythane polycrylic.
Signy Table and Chair
My husband I and I made this for our daughter for Christmas! It's so cute we couldn't wait and she's been sitting and playing at it ever since. We are pretty novice and building and this was easy and fun for us to complete. We will make another chair in the future, but for now we just did the one!
Herringbone Bar Height Dining Table with Hairpin Legs
We used 3/4" birch plywood and glued 1/2" thick x 3" wide wood pieces in a herringbone pattern to make the top. We used 1 x 3 oak boards for the trim. The wood is a variety including walnut, maple, cherry, sassafras, etc. We ordered the metal hairpin legs.
We started with a base stain of Danish Oil in Dark Walnut. Once that dried, we went back over that with a very light coat of Minwax gray wash oil based stain. We used 4 coats Laquer for the top coat.
Easy build and we love how it turned out!
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Tue, 04/21/2020 - 02:35
Hi. So sorry I just saw…
Hi. So sorry I just saw your comment. I ordered the craft boards from Ebay. They were 1/2 x 3" boards of various types.
Storage Bench
Lessons learned.
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beach hut bed
Please forgive me for this for being a bit long....but i am excited!
Our daughter picked this beach hut bed to be her new bed that she would be getting for her 3rd birthday. Her older sister has a loft bed and was always climbing up so we liked the idea of it being lower for her. I had saved some pics from other sites and then showed them to her, she didnt want the girly house one's :( no she wanted the one i had actually saved for her brother. lol...
Anyway then i went hunting and could not believe my luck when i came across this site with this bed and plans!
My husband...ye of little faith didnt think we could do it but was willing to follow my lead and have a go!
This was our 1st ever time for builing ANYTHING!
And what a undertaking, however it all came together very smoothly and we are both so very proud of what we have been able to achieve.
Things we did a little different...
We altered the ladder on an angle to make it easier for her to climb (alas also for her 20mth old brother as well), also made the ladder upright supports x3 instead of x2, so the ladder now supports both our weights.(see pic) We made little window sills on each of the windows, added a book shelf inside as she is an avid 'reader' screwed in a light from you will know where. :) On the other 'open doorway' side which is against the wall we screwed on 2 x cross beams using 1x2 pine just for our own sakes to know that she cant fall from that side. We also added some dowell fixed with some saddle clips to hang the material from across the open section.
She has been using this bed for 2 weeks now with no problem.
You have made our daughter a very happy little girl,and parents (she is having day sleeps again now:)) because without your site we would not have known where to start. Thankyou very much.
I would recommend to anybody going to build this bed is to undercoat/prime all side lining wood before nailing into place as painting in between ALL THOSE GAPS took ALONG time!
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Wed, 09/21/2011 - 09:27
Wow! That is gorgeous!
Great job on your first build! We're in the process of picking a first bed for our daughter and this one is definitely in the running. It looks great!
Cindy from Indiana
Wed, 09/21/2011 - 21:39
Thankyou!
Thankyou for your lovely comments. We are so very proud of how it turned out. Even better than we thought. Every time i look at it i think "wow, did we really do that" And yes it was our very 1st build. We now think that if we have done this as a 1st build then we can pretty much do anything....lol...and my to do list is filling up fast.
Thu, 09/22/2011 - 10:26
AMAZING!!! I have been eyeing
AMAZING!!!
I have been eyeing these plans for a very long time, unfortunately my kids are too small for this bed, I contemplated on making it for outside, as part of a tree house of some sort, but never got around to it. You did such an amazing job, I am truly jealous and hope one day I can have this at my house! Love it!!!!
Thu, 09/29/2011 - 09:58
Oh how cute is that!?!?
Seriously, how cute is that!?!? I wish my girls were younger! Absolutely LOVE this! Great job!!!
Fri, 09/30/2011 - 05:11
:) Thankyou
Thankyou for your kind comments, little Madison is still loving her bed, sitting up in there during the day playing with her dolls and reading her books, and yes still having a day sleep...loving it....we are in the middle of a teenager loft bed with a mini robe walk-in underneath for one of our other daughters. Not as cute as this but will post pics when done. :)
Sun, 10/02/2011 - 04:33
re beach hut bed
What a nice job, i am jealous. Looking at the job you have done and you say it's your first job is unreal. Looking at your children please send me your husband and i will look after him. lol you are one lucky gal
Tue, 10/04/2011 - 03:35
Awesome wow
Yes i agree with reno queen. Send me your hubby i will pay more haha.Where do i find one like that ? They don't make them anymore haha .What a nice job. This is the best i have seen so far. Would you build and send to New Zealand? How much? i am willing to pay freight etc. Regards Janelle
Sat, 10/08/2011 - 02:56
Cute and Top Job
Great job and yes i second that, send him to me ,if he is the one in the pic he is rugged .lol top job
Thu, 10/13/2011 - 15:25
lol....
Yes ladies that is my husband in the pic and yes our children are simply gorgous....As far as builing this bed for you Janelle, customs would not allow it because of the wood. We sometimes race jet boats in NZ and the boats can not have 1 speck of mud, dirt or any natural by product on it anywhere. Yes they can spray it with chemicals but would you really want your child sleeping in it then?? So sorry about that. It really wasnt to hard, my hubby just followed my lead (re:I told him what to do! lol) at the time we only had very basic tools, and we managed great. It was more the hours it took, but also having said that we could only work after kids were in bed or weekends.
Sun, 02/26/2012 - 18:11
Building Beach Hut Bed
Hi my husband and I are about ready to start building. Our daughter is turning 6 in a few months- and saw someone made this 3 year old. We have 8 ft ceilings - but we are adding a slide out the one side (for fun) and would like to make the height of the loft bed a bit higher - anyone do that ?
How will plan change much?
Sun, 02/26/2012 - 18:11
Building Beach Hut Bed
Hi my husband and I are about ready to start building. Our daughter is turning 6 in a few months- and saw someone made this 3 year old. We have 8 ft ceilings - but we are adding a slide out the one side (for fun) and would like to make the height of the loft bed a bit higher - anyone do that ?
How will plan change much?
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 13:11
question about the plans for this
Hello. I have printed out the plans for this beach hut and I plan on starting this weekend. This will be my first build. Something in the plans doesn't make sense to me. In Step 2, it shows the floor supports for each side of the hut being 20" long, but then in Step 3, it shows the length of the pieces for the windows as only 18" long. Wouldn't they need to be the same width?
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 15:54
Lowering bed and adjusting the stairs
Did you lower this bed and if so what was the total height. I love the adjustment made to the stairs. Great job!
Yayyyyyyy it's soooooo cute!!!!
This was my first in not just painting but actually building what I was about to craft!!!! I messed up a few times but had a blast and have already started my next build :)
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Tue, 10/01/2013 - 12:28
YAY is Right!
This turned out great! I love it in your space!!! Thanks for sharing.
Home Office Project
The Classic Collections was exactly what we were looking for when we decided to re-do our home office.
Wine Bar/ Record stand
We needed a piece that served two purposes, a Wine bar and a record stand. I used a plan from the site and altered the dimensions to fit records and wine holders. I used thick wood up top and stained and lacquered it. I added a few extra shelves for glasses and so forth, and put in the wine holders. That ended up taking a little extra on this build but I had a great time doing it!
Kids Adirondack Chair
The Kids Adirondack Chair. I love these little chairs! Simple and easy to build. This one was a birthday present for my niece's daughter. Read more about this project on my blog.. Thanks Ana!!
So Easy...love the ladder shelf.
Easy to follow, we made in a weekend. We tweeked our dimensions a bit but otherwise pretty straight forward. We ended up staining half and leaving other half natural then put a varnish over the entire shelf. Turned out pretty neat with the two tones.
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Standing High Chair
I modified the "standing high chair" from Ana's plan and from Blame Crayons blog post...so, I did a little freestyling. The standing platform is adjustable height, just like Ana's. My friend asked me to make this for her mom for Christmas.
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Thu, 08/25/2016 - 08:36
Great MODS!!!
I lovel your modification to add the entry-step to Ana's plans. I think I will try to re-create that myself, any special tips on adding that extra step?
Coffee Table
For my daughter's birthday, I used the plan from your site, but I substituted 1x6 poplar for the top, rather than the 2x6's. Turned out so well that my other daughter wants one as well.
Toddler sized picnic table
This was a fun cute project to start with. My husband assembled it (though I wanted to do it he didn't let me). I used spray paint. Though I wish I had made it with a bit sturdier wood or maybe used wider sizes. but overall this turned out well and the kids LOVE IT! thanks Ana!
Grandy TV Stand
Modified the plans to make smaller and shorter to use as a flatscreen tv stand to fit up to a 60 inch tv. It has room on each side for baskets that I will put in later!
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Farmhouse storage bed
I slightly modified the plans on your site and built this bed for my daughter last year and it is holding up great.
Sofa Console Table Bar Height for Dining
I took the basic idea of the Rustic X Console. Raised it to countertop height so I could use it for three stools. I also added a shelf so people sitting on the sectional could put drinks right behind them. Added a charging station to that shelf as well. Topped it with a live edge black walnut slab. Finally, I didn't use the X because the table was too high and the base was too narrow to make the X work. I used a tablesaw to cut a grove in the legs and then put a 1/4 plywood panel.
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Factory Cart Coffee Table Stenciled version
We modified our plan by use a router on the edges and stenciling the top. We used pine. We left our wheels the original industrial metal .
**This is one sturdy table and easily serves as an ottoman with large groups .
Outdoor Sectional
This was my first project ever! I was very happy with the way it came out! I just did a little adjusting to get it the size I wanted =) Cushions for a decent price was very hard to find, I ended up going to walmart and I actually really like them.
It took me a while to complete as I have a little one (turned a yr the wknd I finished) and only worked at night and during naps!
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Tue, 10/08/2013 - 19:12
This looks really nice, good
This looks really nice, good job. Isn't it fun to build just what you want!
Farmhouse Table and bench
My first woodworking project ! Already planning others from the ana white site.