Aqua Spa Bench for Entry
My husband modified the plans to make the bench longer to sit in our entry as a place to take off shoes. Painted, distressed sanded, then stained with minwax ebony. Finished off with polyurethane.
My husband modified the plans to make the bench longer to sit in our entry as a place to take off shoes. Painted, distressed sanded, then stained with minwax ebony. Finished off with polyurethane.
(again, I don't know why the image is showing up in the wrong direction)... While redoing my son's room, he needed a new dresser. His room is very small and we new we needed to be able to put it inside the closet. We couldn't find dressers that would fit the correct dimensions, but didn't think we had the ability (yet) to make a quality dresser for him. My kids don't like using dressers correctly anyway, so we thought this might be a great solution for him. Right now he is using the bottom area as a place for his shoes and small boxes for his underwear and socks. (We had thought about making one of the spaces into a shelf, but ended up not doing it, so I hadn't bought enough baskets).
Sun, 11/01/2015 - 08:45
Your table is gorgeous! I'm building this right now and am looking for this color stain ... What did you use? thank you!!
Sun, 11/01/2015 - 08:45
Your table is gorgeous! I'm building this right now and am looking for this color stain ... What did you use? thank you!!
Mon, 12/21/2015 - 21:04
Sorry I'm just now seeing your comment! If you still need the info I used a coat of Rustoleums Weathered Gray and then a coat of Minwax Provincial. I only left the Provincial sit on for maybe about a minute before wiping it off. Hope this helps!
Mon, 12/21/2015 - 21:05
Sorry I'm just now seeing your comment! If you still need the info I used a coat of Rustoleums Weathered Gray and then a coat of Minwax Provincial. I only left the Provincial sit on for maybe about a minute before wiping it off. Hope this helps!
I loved the original design but wanted to learn new skills and use hardwood.
I used a combination of pocket holes, biscuits to align the plates and the frames, and figure 8 fasteners to attach the top.
At a VERY low pace (~1-2 hours every day), and many mistakes, it took me about two months to complete this project. If I had to do it again, it would probably take me two-three weeks at the same pace.
Overall, I learned a lot and am very pleased with the final results.
Using favorite bookshelf design I built 2 shelves, one for books (5 shelves) and one for DVD’s (7 shelves with doors). These were a present for my daughter for Christmas she loves them. They are made of pine finished with General Finish brand Java gel stain.
Our kitchen has been pretty much the same for the last 4 1/2 years but this last fall we started to undertake a huge do-it-yourself remodel. We painted our cabinets, replaced the sink and floors and even painted the counter tops! You can check out the transformation on our blog.
Now that our kitchen was looking so good we decided we needed some awesome furniture to match.
This is where the great Ana White and her wonderful blog stepped in. We were able to build some beautiful high quality furniture at an awesome price! This was the first time I actually had matching and completed furniture in my kitchen and I have loved it.
We built the farmhouse table, bench and the extra tall bar stools with some modifications.
This was my first building project! The bed is built almost entirely out of found wood. I modified the Hailey Platform Bed plans to suit the dimensions of the wood I had, and my very small work space.
I did most of the building in my living room and my apartment's miniature courtyard, which is much narrower than a bed. Because of this, the bed had to be able to be disassembled until after it was stained. The modified plans use brackets on the corners - even these were found! Most of the wood came from discarded pieces of other beds, found in the yearly big garbage collection. The centre support strut can also be disassembled, and is attached with a joist bracket.
I think the actual assembly and finishing of the bed could be done in a day, even for a beginner like me, but I spent many hours sanding the old finishes off of my found wood so I would have a uniform finish.
Sun, 06/23/2013 - 06:00
Congratulations on your first build! It looks great! All that sanding you did really paid off -- your finish is so beautiful and smooth! Love the teak color. Great job!
Thu, 07/03/2014 - 12:02
I just found this website and plans. I think I am going to build this for my new bed. I like the modifications you made to take it apart.
As I will be building a king sized bed, I will have to be able to take it apart in order to bring it into my room. Thank you for the ideas.
Finally happened upon a walnut slab to rejuvenate the top of my coffee table. I loved the wrought iron base, so I wanted to keep it, but the tabletop height needed increased to protect beverages from labrador tail attacks.
I cropped the existing wood top to serve for the base piece, sanded it down and stained it to blend in with the walnut. Four 2.75" wide walnut strips were used to create cubby spaces under the top slab for remotes, controllers, and keyboards.
The top slab was pretty rough, so it required heavy sanding to take finish evenly. I started with 80, 120, 220, and finished with 400, using mineral spirits to raise and knock down the grain. Finished with four coats of Waterlox original.
Made some toy cubbies for a friend before their firstborn made her appearance, modeled after these:
https://www.amazon.com/Badger-Basket-Company-Storage-Cubby/dp/B00GXZRUA…
Personally, I really like the planked look of the back with different stains applied to each. Gives it a bit more personalized look. They are stackable so she can use them in whatever configuration suits their needs. Fun, fairly quick project!
I used White Oak, 2 X 2 and 2 X 4 for the frame with 1 X 4 for the seats. This was my first attempt at mortise and tenon joinery (instead of pocket screws) and the woven pieces were held in with dowel pins.
I built Ana's Tryde Coffee Table. Building was quick and easy and I am in LOVE with my new table!!! You can see the modifications I made at our blog http://www.shanty-2-chic.com/2011/04/coffee-table-reveal.html
This was a rack I helped my dad make so he could give it as a wedding gift. This is an attempt to build from plans that Ana posted here:
http://ana-white.com/2011/11/wall-mounted-wine-rack-dont-forget-erase-y…
We took 2 long long cherry boards with bark still on the sides, and ran them through the planer. Then we ripped them down the center to be able to use bark ends on each side and book-matched the cherry colors, but most people wont have to worry about that since they wont be using "found" cherry.
The back board is made up of four 1x7s cuts at 28.5 inches long. You can use whatever width you want, we just wound up with 7inch pieces. Then we used a Kreg Jig to screw those together flush (see picture of back). Once those 4 pieces were together we sanded the edges down to make the backboard smooth and flush.
The 8 mini shelves were 1x3.5s cut at 10 inches long. The middle and bottom shelves were 1x5s cut at 24.75 inches long. Again, we were using limited wood and had to adjust our measurements to make it work.
We spaced the bottom shelf flush with the bottom of the backboard and then would space 4.5 inches between the top of that and the bottom of the next shelf. Make sure there is still room for your wine bottle to fit between the floating shelves. ALSO, MAKE SURE YOU KEEP THE FLOATING SHELVES ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER LEVEL WITH ONE ANOTHER. You don't want your shelves to look lazily placed.
The way we placed the shelves on backboard was...involved.
- Clamp the shelves in place on the front of the board and trace them with pencil.
- Remove the shelves.
- Marke holes to drill within center of the trace.
- Drill those holes from the front of the board to the back.
- Reclamp the shelves back on and use the holes in the board to mark the clamped on shelves from the back.
- Unclamp the shelves and fully drill the shelves by themselves while they were not attached. (BE CAREFUL TO DRILL STRAIGHT and never come through the top or bottom of the shelf)
- Sand off your pencil marks after your drilling.
- Re-clamp the shelves to the backboard.
- Use 3" screws straight from the back into the shelves.
- Use 8 screws per big shelf and 3 screws per little shelf.
Then it was just slow and steadily clamping, tracing, drilling, re-clamping, drilling, sanding, re-clamping, and screwing the shelves on... You have to follow that pattern for each shelf or you risk ruining your shelf and if you have limited wood (like we did) that is not an option.
We also put very small pieces of wood to keep the bottles from rolling off their shelves. These were just scraps we had lying around and tapped them in with small finishing nails.
Good luck!
Awesome plans for a table that turned out perfect for our new home.
My third table like this built so far. Fairly easy project takes about a day to complete depending on stain dry time. I painted the frame white and used an American walnut stain on the table top and the lower shelf.
I combined a couple of playhouse plans for this one. The framing is 2x2 treated pine. The front is real stone. I tried to match our home the best that I could. The floor is made out of composite decking.
Sun, 12/26/2021 - 17:23
WOW, that is so awesome, love the real stone, composite decking and that you matched your house!
This is from the "Workbench to Get the Job Done" plan. Instead of using plywood for the shelves, I used 2x4s cut to length which made the piece extra sturdy. I also left a little overhang on each of the ends for clamping things (I wish I left at least 3" on each side, but I think I left about 1 1/2").
My first try and I had a blast. Being a St Louis Cardinal fan I decided to give the "simple rolling bar cart" a cardinal twist. It is great for using beside a BBQ grill. I actually gave this to my pastor for "Pastor Appreciation Day" and plan to build me another one.
This is my first big project I have done, it was for my wife’s birthday. I enjoyed the challenge though,
This summer my husband built three of your pieces. We are so in love with how they turned out. Thank you so much for your easy to follow blueprints!
This is my first venture into woodworking/carpentry. Since I did not want to shell out too much money for lumber, I used untreated pine (worst wood they say to use) for the daybed and used an exterior wood stain (with uv protection) to seal the wood. I also did not invest in power tools and used a hammer and wood saw to cut and nail everything together. As I cannot sew, I waterproofed the mattress by sandwiching it between two plastic mattress covers (dollar store) and duct taping the seams. It's not elegant but no one is going to see it. I used a cotton fitted twin sheet (old one) for the cover and found some outdoor pillows for $16 a pair ($8 per pillow and made with solarium fabric). Also as this is placed outside (deck), I'm looking into getting a mosquito net to use over the daybed instead of the bed tent I have on right now.
In hindsight, I should have used pressure treated wood for the posts and canopy beams to prevent bending/twisting (I had to re-do 2 posts). If I get 3 years of use for this furniture. I'm a happy camper. Ana, thank you so much for the plan. Kathy thanks for the advice on painting the lumber first.
You guys can do this!
This is my first project. I had to shorten the width of the shelf to fit the space I had for it. The board on the back is also a 1x4 instead of the 1x3 that was in the plans. This was a great first project for anyone.