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I made this for my outside patio but since completing the project, it's been raining. So, it's inside the screen porch for the time being.

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've been needing a patio table for some time and this fit what I needed. Ready for next project!

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.

My wife asked me to make a pair of these to go with the outdoor table I built

Plans make this a fairly easy project. Im looking forward to making a dresser to match as time allows. The bed ends up being a bit higher than i expected but still very happy with it. This made for a good 4 day father son build. 

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.

We needed a space saving alternative to individual twin beds...these were very simple to make. Our boys love them! We kept the same deminsions as the original plans and ended up having a little extra room on each bed for storage as well as toy storage under the second bed. Worked out very nicely and left space for the next project...a study station :)

I mostly followed Ana's plans but used 1 5/8 screws and had a problem with wood splitting so for the ceder I used a finish nailer instread which worked great. I also painted before nailing the ceder pieces so they would really stand out and I also cut a few inches off the front ceder piece as I think 5.5in is too high and covers too much of the entrance. 

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...

Here is my spin on the Farmhouse bed.  I made the entire thing 8 inches taller, added a couple random pieces here and there, and stained it dark walnut.  I also modified the plans to use a box spring and bed rail fasteners to make it easier to take apart.

I probably took this project on at a bad time (final semester of college, planning to move for my first job, and getting married) but this was my wedding present to my wife. I modified the plans and made everything (except for the drawer boxes) out of white oak cut from my father in law's farm. The headboard, footboard, and drawer faces are edge glued planks. I made the corner posts by gluing 2x4s together (actual dimension of the post is 3x3). I used threaded inserts to make it come apart into 4 pieces (headboard, footboard, and drawer boxes). This thing is HEAVY (the headboard alone probably weighs ~150lbs) I learned a lot during this project and these planse were a great guideline!

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

I have been holding a really cool farm pallet in the garage for 3 weeks.  I finally decided to use one of the slats with the 2x4 supports to make this bench.  Only 7.97 for a box of screws!

Great plans allow for versatility and easy customization. Put the whole thing together in a day w/ one other person. My set up is 16' long - 5' on the side shelves and 6' for the workbench. Added a pegboard and fluorescent light under the top middle shelves. I'm also designing a slim drawer to go under the workbencheck area. Thanks a bunch!