Product Description: This is the popular, one-stop, starting-from-scratch, fully illustrated furniture-making sourcebook that novice woodworkers want. There’s no need to have loads of experience and expensive lumber to make attractive furniture: just a few 2x4 boards will do to make pieces as good as anything on the market, and these no-nonsense instructions outline the techniques so clearly that even beginners will follow the instructions easily...read more

Product Description: With a little bit of skill, stock lumber, and simple tools, you’re ready to start any of these 23 practical and handsome projects for the home: an ottoman, folding screen, wine cabinet, and even a grandfather clock. Turn an ordinary bed into a four-poster and light up any room with a pretty birdhouse floor lamp...read more

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Product Description: Imaginative and easy-to-accomplish ideas—most using paint, a glue gun, or staple gun—include an outcast armoire spruced up with paint and stapled-on fabric, a faux fireplace, graceful bed canopy, découpaged closet doors, and sponge-painted end tables...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Transform your deck, yard, patio, or garden into perfect outdoor rooms for entertaining, dining, or simply relaxing in style. Maybe all it takes is an outside bar, just like the ones at posh hotels, or a comfy Adirondack sofa; practical barbecue, or fun porch swing. Go ahead; start building! Even if you're a beginner who has never wielded a hammer, these pieces are well within your abilities. Every one has been simplified with the novice in mind, and uses only standard lumber and a few everywhere-available materials. Many of the projects, such as a cheery birdhouse table, can take just a few hours to make. And, they're all wonderfully sturdy, ready to stand up to the elements. Enhance any al fresco space with a deck canopy; tiled coffee table; lattice screen; trellis and fountain; and more. You'll save on specialty store versions, and the handmade ones will fit perfectly with your lifestyle and surroundings! 21 projects in all. (view table of contents)

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From mirrors and candlesticks to coatracks and footstools, this brightly illustrated handbook presents twenty-three simple projects for accessorizing the home that use ready-made elements and stock lumber available from any home improvement center. Original. 32,000 first printing.

Designed for the beginning and the experienced woodworker alike, a book of detailed plans for twenty simple, attractive furniture projects using stock lumber and ready-made parts includes forty color photographs and 120 black-and-white illustrations. Original. 40,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Provides plans and instructions for constructing outdoor furniture using basic tools and modestly-priced lumber

Provides plans and instructions for constructing furniture using pre-cut pieces of lumber and pre-made decorative woodwork