Community Brag Posts
Console Table
This plan had comments about the 1x12 being a little short.
Adirondack Chair (Home Depot Version)
Followed the new home depot plans, only change I made was using 2x4 instead of 2x2. Getting ready to build another one, but this time will also change the arms to be wider on the ends to accommodate wine holder on one arm and cup holder on other arm. :0)
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Fri, 11/13/2015 - 20:36
Varnish
Hi Ana,
Thanks for all your free sharing and advice. I'd like to return the favor (hopefully)...
Just wanted to say (as I am a painter) that it is best to avoid using any sort of "clear" varnish (such as poly, or spar, etc...) on anything that sits outdoor (such as furniture, doors, decks), because UV rays from the sun will break-down the varnish and cause them to fail.
Instead, it is best to use a stain that is suited for decks, like Cabots Semi-Transparent, or semi-solid, etc,,
best regards,
Aaron
Fri, 11/13/2015 - 20:36
Varnish
Hi Ana,
Thanks for all your free sharing and advice. I'd like to return the favor (hopefully)...
Just wanted to say (as I am a painter) that it is best to avoid using any sort of "clear" varnish (such as poly, or spar, etc...) on anything that sits outdoor (such as furniture, doors, decks), because UV rays from the sun will break-down the varnish and cause them to fail.
Instead, it is best to use a stain that is suited for decks, like Cabots Semi-Transparent, or semi-solid, etc,,
best regards,
Aaron
Turquoise lady
I built this with the intent of making it all drawers. So there is not a cabinet with doors in the center.
American Girl Doll House
This was what I built for my daughter during quarantine! I had never used a Kreg Jig before and now I love using it!
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Modified Spa Bench
This is my first build ever...except for a rad cd rack I built in 8th grade shop class. My husband and I
So it all started when my amazingly crafty friend Lee built a toy kitchen for her kids. I was so impressed and started looking up other people's diy kitchens. So then I was searching for something totally different and saw the play kitchen on Ana's website (love it), and I got totally addicted and decided I was going to build a dining room table, because we have been using a hand-me-down brown card table and chairs from the 70's since we got married. (How's that for a run-on sentence?) I wasn't sure if my husband would take me very seriously, but after I showed him this website, I started noticing him on it all the time. He's more addicted than I am!
Fast forward some time and we decided to start with the spa bench as a warm-up. Once we are in a house with our own garage (God willing in the next few months), we plan on tackling the Farmhouse Table. Anyway, when we took the kids to Gma and Gpa's, my father-in-law got really excited that there were going to be carpenters in the family, and he took us out to the garage to show us all his tools that we could use.
We had to buy all of the wood, screws, sand paper, stain, polyurethane, and a paint brush since it was our first project, so it ended up costing about $85. At least now we have a lot of supplies left over for our future projects! We had
This is probably a weekend project if you count the staining and finisher. The actual building part only took us three or four hours (please don't laugh at us if that's painfully slow), but we actually took about two weeks to finish it because we have rain, no garage, and three kids under 19 months. And we weren't really in a hurry. Anyway, it was fun. We like to build. Thanks, Ana, for inspiring us and for making it doable for so many people! We think you're neat.
Seesaw
Greetings from Finland. I made teeter-totter from excellent plans Ana has donatet for all of us. I used treated wood, so I didn't need to paint the project (and never will :-) Handles and seats are made from raw wood. Gives also nice twin color look. To add some extra support I embed the beams at foot.
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Desk with additions
This was the first plans we used from Ana White and it turned out great. Modified the desk to be a little shorter and have dual drawers in the front.
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Wed, 09/23/2015 - 20:24
Fancy X Desk -- Drawer Plans
Your desk looks great...well done! I'm diggin your drawer modifications. Would be able to share your plans for this addition? Thanks!
Farm Table
Anna made it easy to build. I did change a few things to fit my dining room but I think it turned out great.
Thanks Anna
Shawn Roleson
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Tue, 11/16/2021 - 12:29
WOW, what a table!
You did a stunning job on this build, thank you for sharing!
Wed, 11/17/2021 - 09:52
Love the chunky legs on this…
Love the chunky legs on this table! Beautiful job, thank you for sending in a brag post!
Anastasia's new bed
This is my daughters new bed. We modified the plans to fit what we wanted. I added drawers to the stairs. Then put shelves behind the stairs. Added doors so we can hide the shelves. We used rope lights inside to add light with her own light switch.
PS Don't mind the date on the pictures. Forgot to change the date.
Then primed and painted. We used a hvlp paint sprayer.
Tryde Coffee Table
This was my first project. We are using it in the Man Cave.
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Poolside sectional
This was our first diy furniture project but definitely not our last. We were looking for furniture to put by our pool but everything that we liked and was comfortable was way out of our budget. I came across the post on pintrest and recruited my husband to do the woodworking for me. I the meantime I made the cushions and back pillows using outdoor fabric from fabric.com. The sectional is stained using Olympic Elite semi transparent exterior stain in kona brown.
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Thu, 05/21/2015 - 08:04
That looks like a great place
That looks like a great place to relax! I love your fabric choices, Premier Prints are the best!
Tree Shelf
We moved about 18 months ago to a house without a fireplace after having one for almost 7 years. When The Christmas dilemma of where to hang the stockings came up last year, we used an Ana White plan and built a super amazing faux fireplace. After the holidays we decided we'd install it in our bedroom instead of storing it away all year....AND we ended up liking it there so much, that's where it stayed and a bookshelf took its spot in the living room. This Christmas when the stocking question was raised I looked online for ideas and, wouldn't you know it, Ana White to the rescue again!! We are completely in love with our new Christmas shelf. Also as a bonus, we now know how to use a miter saw, which I'm sure will open up all kinds of new project possibilities!
Happy Holidays!
Crib Mattress Sofa Sectional
I used Ana's outdoor sofa plans to customize this sofa for a playhouse. I left the separate railing piece detached so the kiddos could push the two pieces together to form a bed for sleepovers!
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Simple Nightstands
I absolutely love the way these turned out! I drew up an example in Sketch-up using Ana's plans for the Simple Nightstand as a starting point.
Farmhouse Style Bed
It took about 7 hours to complete this project. We used Ana White's Farmhouse Queen plans, with some modifications: the bottom of her bed frame is about 4-6 inches off the floor, ours is 17 inches for extra storage space. We also made the footboard slightly deeper to accommodate longer legs. Due to limited space, we built it on the bed of our truck with the "help" of our 18 month old. We love the way it turned out.
Faux fireplace with hidden storage
I saw this project on the Ana-white website DIY. Luckily I have a friend that has all the tools so we used the cut list & built this faux media cabinet fireplace. I wanted it to store all my media stuff & have my TV set on top instead of the boring & expensive hanging the tv on the wall route not to mention the damage to my rented apt wall. We made a few modifications we extended the top & moved the center hidden shelf up.
My amazing husband surprised me
My amazing husband surprised me with this awesome headboard for my birthday!❤️ ❤️
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Tue, 12/07/2021 - 15:26
Beautiful custom headboard!
Lucky you, it looks amazing, thanks for sharing!
Bathroom Tower out of scraps
When I saw another builder's little bathroom tower in the brag blog last week, I knew I needed one for my powder room! Ever since we installed a pedestal sink several years ago, we've had nowhere to put extra toilet paper. With this little tower, that problem is (finally) solved!
I built it will materials I had on hand. Oak plywood I ripped to 11" for the sides and shelves, 1x2 pine for the face frame, and a variety of pine for the top glued and screwed together with my Kreg jig.
The only purchase I made for this tower was the two fabric baskets from Target for about $12, I think. The fact that they fit is not a happy accident -- I built the unit around the basket dimensions.
While it is inspired by Ana's storage tower plans, I definitely went out on my own to make it work with the materials I had lying around.
child airplane swing
Airplane swing made from pine and "A" frame made from 2x4's
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Ana White Admin
Wed, 11/03/2021 - 16:47
WOW Stunning Concrete Table!
Love what you did here, absolutely gorgeous!
Don710
Mon, 11/08/2021 - 16:06
Thank you!! It turned out…
Thank you!! It turned out better than I had hoped. Now every time I see it, I smile. Thanks for the base plans🍻