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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.}
Oh! I’ve been dying to get my hands on a copy of her book! Hopefully I won’t have to wait until Christmas… 🙂
She has such great ideas. If only I can get my husband to work on these projects with me!
Would LOVE to have this book, and will definitely check out her blog!
Would love to win your book, I’d give it to my son and daughter-in-law…they just purchased a home and would put it to good use.
We want to use Ana’s plans and build a new dining room table before Christmas! I’d love to have the book handy for other projects too!
Hi Rhoda!
This book would be great. My daughter needs a new dining room set and has been looking at ones with benches. It would be great to build it and save some moola.
Learning about furniture making and getting comfortable with power tools is a goal of mine. This book looks great!
I’d love to have this book! I’d like to make myself a coffee table. Right now I am using an ottoman! But I’d love to make a big coffee table, like the size of a dinner table but cut down to coffee table height! I could do so many crafts and not have to miss a single real housewive of … episode! Love the bench! Hope I win!
I have been following Ana White for several years now and absolutely love her! We built our bed and a few other things based on her plans. Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
I would love Ana’s book! I’ve already made her modern outdoor table, potting bench, chicken coop, and some behind-the-sofa console tables! This winter we’re going to tackle a built-in faux fireplace. I couldn’t even think about doing it without learning how to build thanks to Ana! I am so sad I missed her book signing the other week =(
Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
Loooove Ana White. I think I text my husband once a week with a new project I want to build. He thinks I’m crazy, but he’s also never been to her website, lol. I honestly have tools on my Christmas list. Kreg jig? Check. Miter box and saw? Check.
Love the fact that she didn’t want to settle for the particle board furniture! It means so much more when you have a piece of furniture that will last especially if you build it! Would love to have this book so I can start a project for my home.
Thanks.
Debbie
I would so love a copy of this book. With daughters and other family members beginning households, I wouldn’t be the only one using this for a reference!
Thanks for offering this, Rhoda!
The book sounds wonderful for all of us “wanna-be” do it your selfers!
I’d love to have a copy of Ana’s book. How I admire a woman who isn’t afraid to tackle anything. Kinda like her friend Rhoda.
I’d love to win the book!
I would love to win a copy of this book! So many great plans!
I would love to win this book. I have always wanted to be handier and maybe this will help me to do so.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I would LOVE to have a copy of Ana’s book – I have always been intimidated by the thought of actually building an entire piece of furniture – but your comment that Ana didn’t know how when she started gives me such hope! Thank you for the great giveaway.
I’m always excited about new projects!! Especially when there’s a skill saw involved. LOL Please enter my name in contest. Also “thanks” for your wonderful blogs involving your parents. They seem like the sweetest couple.