{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 would love to have a copy of Ana’s book, I think the furniture is beautiful 🙂
I would love a copy of the book too. If I ever have money and time at the same time I plan on building us a bed since I can’t find one I like and can’t afford those that I do like.
Would love to win this book! Thanks
I’d like to make a bench with storage. And I’d love one of her books!
I have the tools, I just need the book! I love the feeling of making something myself. I have always wanted to know how to build cabinets. Why start too small right? 😉
Would love to win this book to make a kitchen table and bench.
So love all her furniture & ideas.
Winning the book would be awesome…I would try to build the bench and use at my dining table. Thank you for the chance to win. Love & Blessings, Lady Delores.
As a woodworker myself (LOVE power tools) I’d love to have her book.
I would love to win a copy of this book….I need to build a new hutch!
I would love to have a copy of her book. I have used her plan to build cubbies and we love them!
I have always admired anyone who stepped out of their comfort zone either out of “want” or “need”! Sounds like Ana is one of those folks! KUDOS to her! Maybe being the lucky recipient of her book will give me courage! 🙂
I’d love a chance to win. Count me in!
Wow! Her furniture looks absolutely amazing! I would love to win this book! Even if i don’t win it, I will probably go out and buy it! What a talent!
If I would settle for being able to make a simple bookshelf, myself!!
I would love to have Ana’s book. I love all of her designs and inspiration!
Please enter me in the drawing for Ana’s book. I’ve seen some of her things on your blog, and she’s seems like a take-the-bull-by-the-horns kinda woman. Kudos to her, and many thanks to you! I love reading your blog and your step-by-step journey through re-doing your new (old) house!
I would love to make a project from Ana’s book. It would be a project I never thought I could do.
Oh! She is my hero! I told my husband I wanted to build furniture because I could never find what I envision in my mind 🙂 I’d love this book! I’d love to make a kitchen table.
I would absolutely LOVE to win this book and learn to use power tools!!
Oh the possiblites of what I could make!
Nothing is as rewarding as creating something yourself. Better than finding a thrift store bargain! Would love to win this book!!
I’d love to win the book!! My father-in-law and dad have made a few of her projects for me and I love them! They’re always easy to follow and complete!
I would love to make a farmhouse table for my dining room that has been empty for almost 4 years now!