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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 would love a copy of the book. We have made one of the simple armoires from her directions. Two more are in the works. I did change it up a bit and made them 18″ deep instead of 12″ and the trim will go across all three when done for the look of a wall of built in cabinets, that we can move with us (we’re renters). Love having space for all the home-canned jars of yumminess!
I’d love a copy of her book! She’s inspired me to attempt some more ‘DIY’ projects around my own home. Thanks for offering this opportunity!
I would love to win her book. I love to build things. Her plans are amazing. I love these benches.
I’ve enjoyed learning Ana’s story, and how terrific that she is sharing her many talents through her new book! Count me in as another who would love to win a copy. I’ve always wanted to learn how to use those power tools my husband has, and this looks like a great way to start. I think I’d make the side table on the cover first. Love your blog!
I would love to get this book – I did woodshop classes in high school and really liked doing it.
I would really love to have a copy of this book. I have so much work to do to my home.
I would love to add this book to my library of home design books. I think I would like to start with the bench. Thanks!
I would love to win a copy of this book. Sounds like it would a lot of fun to build a washer/dryer pedestal.
My late father was a fabulous woodworker who created furniture, inlaid lamps, candlestands, and more. I.did.not.inherit.his.natural.talents! Any help learning how to build something myself would be a wonderful help!
I would love this book! I have seen her website and it is amazing! Maybe this would convince my husband that I can use his tools!
Please count me in! I live in a small house…Furniture in stores is scaled too large so I’d love to use Ana’s book to build a small-scale, and I mean small, media suite. Thanks, Rhoda!!
I have always been intrigued with power tools, so my late husband bought me a couple. I haven’t used them for awhile but after reading this article, feel inspired to start using them again! I need a couple of tables (one by the side of a bed, and one beside a sofa). They have to be exact in size. I haven’t been able to find exactly what I need, so after reading your article today, I am inspired to build them myself!
This looks like a beautiful book. I’d love to have it.
I would love to have a copy of Ana’s book. I have been a follower if her blog, and yours for a long time. Thank you for this giveaway!
Please sign me up I’d love to make a bench for myself.
I would love to have the book. I’m currently making plans to build my own bed. I’ve done everything in my house with only my family’s help and I couldn’t be prouder.
Would love to add this book to my “library”. My sweet daughter-in-law just mentioned that she would love to have a bench for their breakfast room table…….black, just like the one pictured in your post. It’s meant to be………I hope!
would LOVE to have Ana’s book. We have frequently considered the many items on Ana’s site; now my grandson and I need to build him a table. Ana is an inspiration to all of us.
i would so love to win this book. i love her stuff. thank you for the chance!
I would love to have this book! I want to make that turquoise console table for starters.