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We needed a new coffee table in the family room, one that went with the ever changing decor. One of my neighbors threw out a rather nice, but older wooden framed window that they had been holding onto for who knows how long. My wife actually grabbed it out of the garbage with both the kids sitting in the car while she loaded it into her SUV in dress clothes.

Anyway, I broke down the window into two sections and used one of the sections to build this table. The area around the window is made out of 2x4 and the table skirt is 1x4. I bought the turned legs from www.osbornewood.com (colonial coffee table leg). This project was made a lot easier by using my kreg jig to attach the skirt to the table legs as well as the top to the skirt. Knowing that I would have two young kids playing around and setting things on the table I placed the glass panes with plexi that I bought from Lowes. This will be safer as well as more durable in the future.

I changed the plans a little bit to add on the extra shelf on top as well as making the shelves an inch narrower than the plans. The project was actually pretty easy and really only took me about a days worth of work.

My husband and I built this together.  It was a fun project!

cross between a kitchen island and the x frame console table. LOL

Cross breeding furniture, gotta love it! :0)

Spent forever building this modified version because I couldn't figure out what kind of drawer faces I wanted. Finished with General Finishes gel stain and Minwax Paste Finishing wax. 

We needed a guest bed for our guest bedroom. So I built the storage areas under the bed out of plywood and boxed them up. The bed would probably look better with a headboard, but we decided to just do that curtain style headboard.

I had seen different beds similar to this, and I just had those in mind when I started. I didn't follow any specific plan except for what I had in my head.

It was painted with an oil-base white paint.

I love this plan. I made this for my toddler and he loves it! My daughter is too small to climb on but she's always trying. She loves it too.

I made a bench from head/foot boards left from a bed I made many years ago that was taking space in our shed. When I searched for trestle table diy, I knew this was just what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing your ideas!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.  

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.