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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 Ana White! Thank you for hosting this giveaway! I’ve got my eye on building one of her storage beds, once we finish building the rest of our house!
Oh, I would love to have this book. I might just pass it on to my husband and inspire him 🙂
Thanks for the chance to win a copy of AnaWhite’s book!
Hi! Thanks for the giveaway. I would love to have her book for my son and his wife. They just bought a home. Also the bench would be the perfect addition to their home.
Wow, please count me in!! I just love the ladder bookcase!! Thanks for telling us about this talented young woman!! Linda
I’m so impressed with Ana and her abilities…I’d love to have her book.
I’m so excited – just getting into using power tools and with the inspiration from this book and watching you and your dad remodel your lovely house, I’m ready! Would love to win this book by Ana. My husband and I made the dress up closet and I bought costumes the day after Halloween for a huge discount. It was a great Christmas present for our then 4 year old grandaughter..
We have a stack of vintage bleacher wood that my husband painstakingly got out of an old gym, by dismantling the bleachers board by board. Would love to win this book to have some creative, and do-able, ideas to put that wood to use! Thanks for doing the giveaway. : )
I would love to have a copy of Ana White’s book! I have always wanted to learn how to build my own furniture.
I would love this book! We just bought a new house, and we’re slowly starting to fill it up.
I would love to win this book!!! We plan on making one of her loft beds for our boys in our new home!!! I love her website and really want her book
I would love to win a copy of this book. I have always wanted and needed to learn to make furniture.
You are a blessed lady!! I’d love to learn and plan to once I read your book. Using talents that the Lord has given us is Oh so special! Keep up the awesome job!
I’ve admired Ana for ages! She totally rocks those power tools! A girl after my own heart. Would love the opportunity to win her book!
I’d love a chance at this book! Please count me in!
First, I love your blog. I’m from Birmingham and just love your style. I read your blog just about every day for inspiration.
I’d love a copy of the book. At over 50 something, learning new things has become a mission! Ana is a very talented lady!
I would LOVE her new book!!! My sister introduced me to her blog last year and I have been so impressed! I would love to learn how to make a farm table to replace the hand-me-down table my husband and I have been using for the last several years. 🙂
I’ve seen her website and love it! Her furniture is amazing, and I would love to have a copy of this book!
How timely! We’re sprucing up our living room and need a TV storage unit. The newer TV’s don’t fit in our old unit. Ana’s book would be just the inspiration I need. Thanks.
I wold LOVE this book! I made lockers for my laundry room by modifying one of her plans to fit my space. I love it!