Our new house is almost double the size of our last house. Double the size means double the amount of furniture needed. Moving in itself is costly, so there wasn't much left in our budget for furniture. We did purchase a new couch, bed and mattress, but that was it. Nick thought this might be a good opportunity to build our own furniture and save some money. He had taken a few woodshop classes in high school and he really liked it however, he hadn't built anything in years. In searching for easy to follow plans, he found Ana White's website. It's fantastic, with so many options and its fun to see how others, who followed the plans, projects came out . So far he has built a coffee table and dining room table and plans to try out more.
His first project was a coffee table for our living room. Here it is unfinished before we stained and painted it.
Our next project was building a dining room table. When we have family over, it can be up to 10 people, so we knew we wanted a table large enough to seat everyone. The dining room is luckily a long room so we had a good amount of space to work with.
We chose a walnut color stain that would stand out from the blonde maple colored floors. I just love how its rustic feel pops against the formalness of the room.
It was so nice to have in place before the holidays. We are using chairs currently, from the kitchen table but soon will have two 8ft. church pew benches on either side. Can't wait to have those in place.
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