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Greenhouse
Gabled Greenhouse completed with upcycled tin roofing. Extended the greenhouse to a 20' long structure.
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Thu, 04/01/2021 - 16:59
Superbly done!
Love this, excellent use of the tin, the outside beds are a great addition!
Nursery Dresser
I made this dresser for my sister's nursery. The room is fairly small, so she wanted a changing table on top of the dresser to save space. We also added a third row of drawers.
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Sun, 11/23/2014 - 05:35
I like your modification!
I like how you modified the plans to make it have two more drawers. I'm looking forward to doing this very soon for my twin daughters. I was just wondering how the dimensions on the right and left sides were changed? Also, does this seems to carry the extra weight of the drawers OK?
RH Inspired Mason Activity Table
Really liked Ana's 20 second tidy up table, and wanted to try to have something like this for my son. Then saw the activity table at RH and tried to replicate it down to the exact same finish. Made small changes here and there such as adding 4 individual drawers, different wood dimensions, etc. He loves it and uses it lots for his Thomas the Train Set. Thank you again Ana.
1. I started by beating up the wood with nails, hammer, chains, broken wood, anything you can find!
2. I did a white wash over the bare wood. 1:1 water and white paint.
3. Sanded the paint off. where the wood was beat up the paint would stay white.
4. Did water based wood conditioner.
5. 1 coat of a gray stain (sorry I cant remember name) wiped off.
6. 1 coat of brown stain. (again sorry! wiped off.
7. finished with a water based matte clear coat.
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Sat, 01/24/2015 - 22:47
The finish
I love the finish you do on this table. Looks great. I wish you could share the exact names of those stains :(
In reply to The finish by timberandsoul
Fri, 02/06/2015 - 09:08
just remembered!
just remembered!
it was minwax water based slate, and water based american walnut.
In reply to Nice Work! by Ana White Admin
Fri, 02/06/2015 - 09:10
Thank you Ana White Admin.
Thank you Ana White Admin.
Big Kids Picnic Table
My son and I made this table this weekend in just a couple of hours with no problems. The directions were clear and easy to follow. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Farmhouse Counter Stools
Hello Ana,
I wanted to let you know I really appreciate your website and the DIY plans. I am an avid woodworker, and I saw your farmhouse counter stool plans a couple of months ago in one of the emails y’all send out, and I thought I’d try out your plans. I made the frame of the chair out of pine and painted it with white milk paint. I made the seat out of Walnut. I honored your plans, but made the seat 1/2” bigger in length and width so as to overhang the frame 1/4” on all sides. I attached the seat with figure 8 fasteners, since I did not want to drill through the solid walnut and plug the screw holes. The plans were very straightforward, and I thought it was easy to build. You have such awesome ideas and plans - thanks for the inspiration!
I have attached a couple of pics.
Thanks again!
Ken Monson.
P.S. - I plan to try some of your other farmhouse plans in the next few months.
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Christmas Farmhouse Doll Bed
My husband and I built beds for our daughters' american girl dolls for Christmas. It was the first time we'd ever built anything and we learned a lot. So fun!
Emersen nightstand - First Build
I used reclaimed fence wood instead of plywood. Just put together three planks to make the side/top/bottom pieces. I adjusted the size a bit since I had limited space for it to fit into. This was my first ever furniture project and my first use of my new kreg jig.
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King Bed
Love, love, love our king bed I build based on an adaptation of Ana's design. I did the slats a little different, and used 1"x 2"'s and cut them in order to make a slot for the slat. i also used non-mortise bed rail fasteners (from Amazon) so the bed could be taken apart easily. This was my first wood working project and now I am hooked! I am also a quilter and made the quilt for it too! I did it on a long weekend by myself. I was probably a bit slower than most folks considering it was my first woodworking project, so I was constantly looking up how to do things on Youtube.
Potting Bench
I slightly modified the project to suit my wife's request. One key note: Make sure the main frame pieces mirror each other. I missed that and had two identical pieces outlined in Step 1, versus where the inside aprons actually face each other to allow for the top and bottom rails to be secured to the frame.
Thompson's Clear stain protects the wood; one coat after cutting the pieces and a second one for good measure after assembly.
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Entry table
Made this as an entry table did the drawers out instead of in like the plan. Love how it turned out!
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torched table
My wife and I saw a large table and chairs at a local antique store priced at $1000...
It was nice and probably worth what they were asking, but after a failed attempt to negotiate the price down to a more reasonable number, I decided to build a table. I was in the thinking stage when it hit. I've been wanting to tear down this random privacy fence in the back yard ever since we moved in a few years ago and so...... a table was born from an old fence..
You cant tell in the pictures but this table seats 12 comfortably. ( 4 on each side and 2 on each end). it is 7' by 4'
run torch over your assembled table about 2-3 inches above surface and keep it moving, try on a test board first you catch on quick. Do all your sanding before the torch no sanding after torch before poly.
after torching, put first coat of poly. light scuff before second/third coat.. thats it.
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Mon, 02/02/2015 - 04:49
construction
4x4 fence post legs notched to hold 2x4 frame topped with a 3/4 in plywood. ( necessary since many boards were cupped or bowed, needed to have something to glue to.)
fence boards werent long enough for length of table so they were staggered as pictured. I had to do alot of planing and run all the fence planks though a table saw to square them as much as I could. ( also not as necessary if you buy wood from your local hardware store.)
The frame has 3 cross braces, and corner braces all the way around. plywood screwed to bracing/frame
planks laid out on plywood and glued plus brad nailed to hold them while glue dried.
routered edges of table top and started sanding, LOts of sanding , belt sanding with 80 grit then orbital sander stepping up to eventual 400 grit. I then cut skirts for the top of the legs 3 and 1/2 in skirts to cover screw holes. and a 1 in skirt to cover the rough edge of the plywood, ( both plywood and table top have a 2 in and 3in overhang respectively. Once everything was sanded to suit. I torched it and hit it with poly..
Mon, 02/02/2015 - 11:07
Beautiful!
Love that is was repurposed from an old fence and the finish is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Tue, 02/03/2015 - 08:34
BEAUTIFUL FINISH
This table is absolutely beautiful!! I am thinking of doing something similar but on a slightly smaller scale. Would you be able to post your plans? I'd love to see the brace work on the bottom/sides of the piece.
Also, how difficult was it to work the blowtorch? Any tips on what I should do (or not do) when trying it out on my own?
Thanks for the post!
Tue, 02/03/2015 - 15:21
Great Job!
Your project came out great! The wood grain is so prominent. My guess is that torching accentuates the wood grain so that it stands out more. Excellent stuff.
Tue, 02/10/2015 - 21:10
torching
just try torching on a test piece first, it was suprisingly easy to do.
Plans...... I didn't make any. ( booo ) I used a 2x4 frame and 45 degree corner braces with 3 cross members. since most of the wood was extremely weathered, there was a lot of planing and sanding to do. Even then I put down a piece of plywood as an underlay for the planks to glue to. I punched the planks down with brad nails to allow the glue to dry because the planks took some effort to keep them flat. I have since built a matching coffee table 4' by 4' with yellow pine from the lumber yard, Not nearly as much work to put together since all the boards were reasonable straight/flat.
Sawhorse "bench" coffee table
Great project with super clear instructions! Love the look of the sawhorse legs and had just completed a live edge table top, so merged the two for this coffee table.
2 X 4 Adirondack Chair Season
2 X 4 Adirondack Chair Season
I'm so tired but i can't stop doing this chairs.
It's fun and gives me satisfaction when it's done
Here is just part of the orders that i got this week.
I'm taking a break, having coffee and resting a bit. Much more sets to do
Thanks Ana White for this beautiful chair plan
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Modern Craft Table with Pull Out Ironing Table [Modified]
The craft table was based on the Modern Craft Table plans and heavily modified to be at regular seating height. We also added a pull-out iron table based on plans from Made by Marzipan. The pictures are kinda deceiving, but the ironing table does push all the way back in the table and it only juts out just to show it :) Check out our blog post for more:
http://tonyandkristine.blogspot.com/2013/03/diy-craft-table.html
Rolling Cart with Casters
I LOVED this plan for a cart. I was looking for a cart to hold my heavy mixer and be able to roll in and out of my pantry. In addition to Ana's plans, I enlisted my 3 sons to hammer the wood to make it look rustic. Instead of aluminum angles, I used steel angles and I used a 36 inch height to accommodate more shelves. This is one SOLID cart. I absolutely love it! Thank you for the inspiration!
Polyurethane Sealant
Custom X Cross Box Craft Desk
DIY Craft Desk.
I built this desk for my wife to give her more space to create her crafts. I meshed a couple designs that I had researched to give her a unique design. This project took me 1 week to complete by only working on it in the evenings but it could be done faster if you have more time available than I did!
Materials Needed:
2 - 6 foot 1x4" pine or Poplar wood
1- 8 foot 1x4 pine or Poplar wood
4- 2x2" pine wood 29" long
2- 1x2" pine wood 24" long
1- 12"x48" pine board (pre cut craft wood in Lowe's)
1- 24"x 72" pine board (pre cut craft wood in Lowe's)
Box of 1 1/2" wood screws
Wood glue
Wood stain and/or paint
8- 1" corner braces
1). Cut the 12"x48" craft board in half (2- 12"x24"boards.)This will be your shelves. Sand all of the wood prior to staining.
2.) Stain shelves and desk top. We used two coats of gray stain. Finish with one coat of Polyacrylic. Sand. Then one more coat of polyacrylic.
3.) Cut the 1"x2" trim to 2- 24" long strips.
4.) Attach the 2x2" posts to the 1x2" trim with wood glue and wood screws. You will end up with an upside down U shape. This trim piece will give added support for desk top. Do this twice and then Paint your posts.
5.) Mark where you want your shelves on the posts and screw in your corner braces to hold the shelves up. I placed the shelf inside the posts to give me 12" of width for baskets. Screw your braces onto your shelf and then attach to the posts. I recommend doing the bottom shelf first so it stabilizes the posts.
6.) Do the same thing with the top shelf. Mark where you want them and attach with corner braces.
7.) Moving on to the cross box base.... Build the 4 sides of the box first with the 1"x4" boards. This desk is 24" deep and 29" tall. Use wood glue and wood screws to assemble. I predrilled the holes then, placed glue on then screwed together.
8.) Make sure your top 1x4" is the full depth of the desk so the weight of the desk top is spread evenly on box.
9.) I used this guide for the interior cross pieces. http://sawdustgirl.com/x-leg-office-desk/#aa
10.) Paint your cross base.
11.) Attach desk top to bases with wood glue and wood screws and you are all set!
It was a fun project! - Jen
Rustic X living room
This is the first Ana White project I have done. They are beautiful! I normally use reclaimed lumber, but made an exception and used dimensional lumber for these.
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Mon, 04/26/2021 - 11:47
Wonderful job!
What a beautiful space you've created, thank you for sharing!
Millicent's castle!
I found the plans for this bed on this site and was sooooo happy. i was looking for a unique bed for my daughter. I had searched beds for girls and cam across castle beds. I found some pretty extravagant beds costing $20,000 by personal designers and then I found beds from $1,000 to $5,000 buy it and put it together and THEN I found this plan. People asked me if I had experience in building anything. The answer was no BUT I CAN do it!. Plus the plans were very easy to read and understand! My daughter is beyond excited! She can hardly contain herself! THANK YOU!
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Wed, 03/27/2013 - 16:48
Amazing!
You did an amazing job on the castle! Truly outstanding. Absolutely love the painted details on the castle. And the mural! Wow! Its so great your daughter got to participate too. She'll remember this when she's all grown up. Congrats on a fabulous project! :)
Sat, 03/30/2013 - 15:36
Fantastic job!
You did a fantastic job! I love the detail you added! I'm so glad the plans were easy to understand :)
My little greenhouse
I built this project 8x10 and made the back wall exactly like the front wall and just added diy windows for air circulation. I live in the desert so I did not use clear panels I used white panels for sides and top and tinted panels for front and back so that my plants would not get scorched. I am running a hydroponic system and could not be happier with the results for a first time gardener! I built it completely by myself in about a month, I do have a full time job and kids that need to be taken to practice and lessons after school.
Big kids picnic table
Hello from London, UK.
Used 120grit sandpaper and stained with Ronseal 10 Year Exterior Satin Woodstain 750ml Natural Oak