Use Firewood For a Project
Cedar Potting Bench
Build a Wooden Bench for Less
Have you ever wondered if you can stain pressure-treated wood? The answer is, yes. Here's how!
Arbor and Benches
Add Seating with a DIY Wooden Bench
Gather Round a Fire Table
Tile-Top Table
The top is made from plywood, with mosaic tiles added for a Mediterranean feel. Adding the tiles is simple when you follow our expert tiling tips. The legs are hand-bent metal. Full instructions are given, but you'll need to make a gig to ensure accurate shaping.
This is a straightforward DIY outdoor furniture project but it will take you several days. And the instructions tell you exactly what to complete each day. It will cost between $100 and $500.
Polished Concrete Table-top
The longest part of forming a concrete top is building the form. But once you've mastered that skill the rest moves along easily. Working on a smaller scale—such as the coffee table shown here—allows you to put custom detailing into the DIY table while also providing your guests with a beautiful conversation piece on which to rest their drinks.
Faux Marble Table
Pedestal Picnic Table
Elegant Outdoor Table
Garden Bench
This DIY outdoor furniture project requires moderate skills, for example making biscuit joints with a biscuit joiner, although a router makes a good alternative if you don't have a biscuit joiner.
This bench can be completed in a weekend, and costs between $100 and $500 to build, depending on your choice of wood.
Simple Folding Chair
This project require mainly basic woodwork tools, although you'll need a table saw and a belt sander for best results.
It costs $20 to $100 to make, depending on the wood you choose. The chair shown is made from cedar, but you could also use Cypress fir or pressure-treated wood.
You can make this easily in a day.
Umbrella table
The base is made from plywood and No. 2 cedar, with the top made from knot-free cedar or pressure-treated deck boards. And the cost varies depending on your materials.
You'll need moderate skills to complete this project. For example, using pocket screws and operating a miter saw, but you should be able to finish it over a weekend.
How to Make an Adirondack Chair and Love Seat
Garden Hutch
Coat and Mitten Rack
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Shoe Storage Booster Stool
Suspended Bookshelves
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Floating Bookshelves
These shelves are handsome, easy to build and inexpensive. And they're strong even though they have no visible supports. They appear to float on the wall, no clunky hardware or brackets. We made them from only two parts—half of a hollow core door and a 2x4.
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DIY Bed Built-in Shelves
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Build a Built-in Bookcase
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Built-in Mission Oak bookcase
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Cottage Shelf with Branches
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Plus: How to hang shelves.
Bookcase Built by Two
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Leaning Tower of Shelves
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Stylish Shelves
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Wall Cabinet for Books
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DIY Box Shelves
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Saturday Morning Shelf
Build it before lunch—spray on the finish after dinner.
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Install a Wall-Bed-Bookcase Combo
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Classic Simple Bookcase
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Build a Showcase Wall!
Over the Door Bookshelf
Build a Traditional Bookshelf
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Floor-to-Ceiling Bookcase
Custom Box Shelves
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Bifold Bookcase Hides a Secret Room
How about building a secret room hidden behind a door that’s masquerading as a bookcase—just like in the movies? Not sure how to build the entrance? Well, just buy a kit. These bookcase doors from Woodfold Manufacturing are perfect for disguising the secret entrance. The bifold-style doors look like a typical bookcase when they’re closed. In fact, you can even load up the shelves with 500 lbs. of books or knickknacks. The doors slide open along a steel roller system at the top and the bottom to reveal the secret room.
Each bookcase door has a fixed middle shelf and four adjustable shelves. The doors are available in hardwood veneers, MDF or vinyl-lam. Bookcase sizes range from 36in. to 66in.wide and up to 96in. high. Order them directly from the manufacturer. The system, weighing 400 lbs., will show up on a single pallet. Prices start at $2,200 (plus shipping) for the entire system.
Hidden Bookcase Storage
Plus: How to build a bookcase
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Make Your Own Built-In Shelves
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Simple Low-Tech Wall Shelf
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Modular Masterpiece
Back when I was just starting out in my first apartment, I piled up milk crates to store all my worldly goods. It was a simple idea, and it worked like a charm. Fast-forward many years: Faced with a need to store and display lots more stuff, I made plywood boxes in two sizes and mixed them up, adding doors to some and painting the inside backs of others the same color as my wall. The result was a stunning showcase that's adaptable to any situation and includes useful storage space.
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Stackable Bookshelves plus a Desk
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Stadium-Seating Bookshelf
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