A family lost everything they owned in a house fire. I decided to build a cottage bed for their little girl and on contacting them, they asked if it could be a castle instead to hold a twin size mattress, since she loved to play princess. We came up with this creation. The frame is pine boards; the towers have an inner framing of 2×2” covered by 3/8” ply, and a “skin” of 1/4” masonite to make it splinter free. Each tower is 12”x16”x48” capped with a crenelated crown, 20”x20”x12”. I sent the door with them but unattached right now as I didn’t know if she feared “the monster under the bed” and I didn’t want him to have a hideout..LOL. We hung a 12’ rainbow rope light in the play area to also dissuade such creatures from taking up residence. Access to the lofted bed is by ladder at the footboard end. I wanted to do a stairs access but her new room wouldn’t hold it.
The first four pics are just the towers and the front facade. The last pic is the Princess posing in her new castle.

We made this deck chair from pallet wood. The plans came from a May issue of WOOD magazine. We had to modify it some to accommodate the the lengths of wood we had on hand. We try hard to not buy any wood for our projects. The backrest has two positions and room to add more if the owner wants. I think I’d make a few more modifications to this plan if I make another one. The finish is Minwax Golden Oak and Cabot’s Red Oak. The entire chair was completed with a coat of poly to make it more weather-resistant. Right now I don’t think that’s a problem, though, as the new owner parked it in her living room for now !!

This dog bed measures 30×22x12; made of reclaimed pallet wood; type unknown, stained with Minwax Golden Oak. It still needs some touch-ups and a clearcoat before I’ll consider it finished. The bottom is plain 1/2 plywood that was left loose so it can be lifted out to make cleaning easy.

My husband and I worked together on this nice bookcase. It measured 34.5×49.0 by the time we were done. The top shelf was 9 ” for dvds; the next lower two shelves were 10 ” each for books; the lowest shelf was 14 ” for albums and such. We painted the project plywood a glossy black and stained the wood trim. I had planned on clearcoating it but ran out of time, plus the Minwax stain already had a nice sheen to it. I left it up to the buyer to wax or clearcoat it if they desired. Temps were a chilly 24 degrees so turnout was slim; still, it raised 75$ for the cause. Several parts of the bookcase was scrap and reclaimed wood, so it was sort of a charity case itself. I’m proud of it ,though.

I was tired of seeing potting benches in stores that seemed flimsy and over-priced for what they offered, so being a crafty type, I set out to build my own. I had no plan, no measurements, and only a rough idea of what I was trying to do. I sat down with graph paper and rulers and designed this. I think it turned out pretty nice. It measures 22×48 x 52. ( depth, length,height ). This pretty much jump-started my desire to build furniture and other things.

I hope you enjoy looking at it.

Juriathe
Glasgow, KY.