{Giveaway is Closed}
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 am so happy for Ana. I have been following her blog for a few years but not before 2008 when we took our last trip to AK. Wish I had known about her then. I would have loved to see her home and the mother-in-law duplex also. God bless Ana. By the way, I would love to have her first book. My husband and I have been buying tools and learning to woodwork.
Me!! Pick me! I want to win that great book and make LOTS of stuff…now if I could just build a bigger house I would be all set! hehehe!
The benches are super cute! I could use two, so the book plus the bench would be GREAT! thank you!
I would love to win this book for myself! I could use some pointers on how to build a piece of furniturs
I’d love the book and would use the ideas to help me construct furniture for my children. Thanks for thinking of us.
i’d love to have this book!!
i’m thinking bookshelves…
I would love to have this book. I think the farm house table is beautiful.
I’d love to have a copy of Ana’s book! I need bookshelves and keep thinking I could do those myself but just need a little boost!
I would love a copy! I made Ana’s Farmhouse bed and I’d love to do some more of her brilliant projects!
Love her website and would love to try to build just about everything!!!
I’d love a copy of Ana’s book! She’s amazing for too many reasons to list!
I’d love to win Ana’s book. I love her website and all of her designs!
I would love to share this book with my son. I know he could make me anything I wanted from the plans in the book.
Rhoda – Thanks for the giveaway. I would love Ana’s book. She makes things so easy to understand.
Judy
We are making plans to remodel our kitchen and I would love to have this book as we design a hutch and island!
I LOVE this gal’s website and have trying to work up enough courage to try something myself. I admire her SO much. I hope this book is a big success.
I have many projects that I would love Ana’s book for. Not to mention it might be helpful to the hubby too! Hint hint hubby!
Her website is great. I can’t wait to read her book!
I would love to win this for my daughter. It would be so perfect.
I would love to win this book. I want a table and benches just like this for my screened porch. My parents live with us and use wheelchairs, so they could just roll up to the ends, and the rest of us could use benches.
That is one talented gal of course I would love Ana’s book!What an inspiration!
xoxo
Karena
Art by Karena
2012 Artists Series