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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.}
Would love to have her book for reference!
I would love a copy of Ana’s book. My husband and I recently retired and we would enjoy making projects together -starting with a table for my craft room, I hope!
I would love this book! I want to learn to use the power tools!
I’m intimidated by power tools so it would be a great confidence boost to have her book.
I would love a copy of the book. She is such an inspiration! So are you with your fixer-upper – you and your dad make quite a team. Well done!!
I just bought my first chop saw and I am needing something to build. Sounds like Ana’s book is just the thing!!!
I would love a copy of Ana’s book!
I love the free project she offered and would love to win a copy of her book!
I want the book! I really want to make that leaning bookshelf.
Her story is very inspirational! I would love to win. If I could build a piece of furniture right now, it would be a small chest for my entry way.
Would love love love to have this book! I am a huge fan of her website. Thanks for the giveaway! First project on the list would be the ladder shelves. =)
I would love to have this book! I have printed a few projects from her website.
I’d love to have the book for my very own! I stumbled on to her web site a year ago and have been collecting ideas and plans since then. My husband poo poos me every time I say “I am going to make…” If I win this book, I WILL create and post one of the plans from it!
I love Ana’s website! I plan to make her gallery ledges for a wall in my living room. I would love to win her book.
I love Ana’s blog and my husband and I have many projects in our plans and this book would be a great help to us…
I love Ana’s blog and all of her handy projects! This book would be a wonderful thing to have! Thanks for the opportunity!
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Love her blog and I know her book must be fab!
She is an inspiration! The book looks amazing!
How cool is she? I would love to learn how to make my own furniture.
That teal console table is calling my name!
Ana is sure an inspiration! would love to read the book & make some using her plans.