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The Winner is: #228, Phyllis! Congrats, Phyllis, you have been emailed!
So excited to share a new book with you today!
My friend, Ana White, has just published a brand new book, all about handbuilt furniture. She is a mom and wife from Alaska and a dynamo with power tools. She started her blog a few years ago which grew out of her love of furniture making. After not being able to afford new furniture for her home, she taught herself how to use her husband’s power tools and began building her own, based on designs from Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, and other stores. She drew up her own plans and shares them for free on her blog.
This book, The Handbuilt Home, documents 34 of her simple, stylish, and budget-friendly wood-working projects and you are going to love it!
Designer Furniture for a fraction of the cost? Yes, you can build it!
Ana flew all the way from Alaska this past summer to join us for the Haven Conference and it was so fun to meet her. She’s beautiful, adorable, just plain nice and is a tiny little thing, who you can’t imagine using hefty power tools. But, let me tell you, she knows her way around them now! She is self-taught and so smart to come up with all the plans she makes and she has made them all available on her blog all these years. It’s no wonder a book publisher came a-calling!
Ana had no woodworking skills when she got started. She and her hubby built their first home themselves, board by board, paycheck by paycheck. When they moved in, they had no money to buy the nice furniture they really wanted and refused to settle for low-cost particle board, so Ana taught herself how to build and made her first project, their bed. Since that time, Ana has built hundreds of pieces of furniture and now has a huge website, Ana White Homemaker, where she gets over 4 million pageviews a month from homeowners who love what she does and uses her building plans to make their own furniture too. Ana has inspired so many people to pick up power tools and do it themselves and I just love her story!
She’s offering one free project from the book, the farmhouse bench, here at this link from the book.
And if you’d love to get a copy of Ana’s book too, we’re giving ONE away to one of my readers!Â
All you have to do is leave a comment telling me that you’d love to have the book for yourself. It’s a beautiful book and I’m so proud for Ana.Â
Is there a furniture piece that you’d love to be able to make yourself? Tell me in the comments!
{Giveaway will be open for 1 week and will close at Midnight on Thursday, Nov. 8th. U.S. residents only please. I wasn’t paid for this giveaway, but did receive a free copy for myself.}
I love the fact that she makes versions of designer furniture on her own!! The pieces on her site and beautiful and she may have just given me an idea for when I retire from teaching. 🙂
I am speechless! What an amazing young woman. Thanks for sharing her with all of us.
I would love to get a copy of this! Thanks for such a great giveaway!
I would love a copy of her book. My husband has built two bookshelves and a small bench with plans from her website.
I showed my son-in-law her site years ago and he used her plans to build a 3 piece entertainment center. It is so beautiful!
We have built a modified version of her farmhouse table and we absolutely love it. I would love to get a copy of the book to built more beautiful pieces in my home. She is such a talented woman!
I would love to give this book to my father-in-law who has started doing woodworking in his basement!
I would love the bench or book! Please enter me in the giveaway!!
I would love to make a farm house table.
I would love to overcome my fear of power tools. My daughter took shop in high school and made a birdhouse and a great side table. I know we can master any task with the right attitude and great instructions. Thanks for the giveaway.
I would love the book. I would like to build a TV stand with just the right amount of storage.
Congratulations to Ana! I would love to have a copy of her new book.
Oooo I want this book sooooo bad! I have actually built my craft table from one of her online plans! PLEASEEEEE!!!! let me win this one!
Rhoda..great, great giveaway…I am in awe of Ana’s talents..Was a thrill to see her at Haven!!…What would I like to make?…I am not very much of a DIY’er…but I keep thinking about what Brittany (Pretty Handy Girl) says…you can do it! I have been searching for a piano stool…not able to find the one I want in the condition that I need…I studied the stool at a local shop…hmm…just a round top and four legs with wheels…that could be “doable”!!!…Ana is such an inspiration!!
Over the years my husband has made us some useful furniture pieces and now my son is getting into it as well, so this book would make a great gift to get them both inspired for new projects!
Beautiful furniture! Yes, I would love to win this book-thanks for offering this chance to win it!
I would love her book. I need to make some benches and a hanging shelf for a mud room,
Ana is so talented, and to own her book would just be too cool!
Thank you for such a wonderful giveaway. I would love to overcome my fear of power tools and this book is so inspiring.
So excited to keep learning more ‘repurpose’! My 7 grandchildren are all going to have gifts under the tree that are ‘do overs’, I am just learning AND loving all the tips and treasures. The above book, well, over the top, training, tips, ideas and how tos….I have seven grandchildren who has bedrooms and playrooms to furnish!
Seriously, I am loving learning and this would be a wonderful treat,
Thank you for all the GREAT info! Paula