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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.}
How fun, I would love to win the book and build something from her ideas! Thanks for the chance. I love your blog.
I would love to have her book. She is amazing!
I want one! I’d love to build a ladder bookshelf!
I’m asking for some basic power tools for Christmas and would love this book to go with them.
I love her style and the fact that she didn’t give up but figured out a beautiful way to have furniture that is fabulous!
I think my husband and I would enjoy the book. Thanks, for the chance to have it. A few years ago, my husband was out of work and while home, and trying to stay busy, he built a beautiful table to go by our bed. I will treasure it always.
How awesome! My husband and I have been using Ana’s plans almost since she started! My favorite project is the beds we built our two youngest sons….We’d both love the book!
Goodness, I am thrilled to see this. I love her site and her designs. I have a huge list of items to make as soon as we move (and we sign today!!!!). I have made items off and on since I was in high school and my husband and I love to work on these progects together. One of the first items will be a desk and some cuboards for extra storage. Both things I have found plans for on her site.
Ana’s an inspiration! I’m searching for a way to replace my previous “job” since being laid off almost a year ago. Woodworking is something that really interests me! Love her projects and this may just be the start of something wonderful for me too!
Oh wow, I would love to win this book. I’m wanting a farmhouse table and this would be a great source!
I would love to have this book. My husband and son enjoy doing projects and this might inspire them.
I would love to win this! We’re planning to do a built-in bookcase in our living room after the holidays.
I am starting a complete home renovation and would love to build a few pieces on my own!
Kim J
What an incredible woman! Her designs are beautiful and I can’t imagine anything more satisfying than to make your own furniture. It would be an honor to be inspired with my own copy of her book!
I love to work with my hands and would love to pick up some new skills from this beautiful book!
LOVE this! And envy her talents! I love power tools-though I’m a novice! I would love to win the book! Will try the free bench pattern no matter what!
Ana White is such an inspiration – and so generous with her time in providing plans for all of us. My husband and I built a bench from her plans and plan to build some other furniture for outdoors. Having a copy of her book will really inspire us to get it done!
I would love to have her book. I think she is amazing! She is so talented and generous for sharing it with all of us!
Leslie
I’d love this book. With 3 boys, (14, 11, 8), I think it would be so fun to build something together!
I love Ana White & would love to win this book so I can start building.