Category: Featured
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DIY Chevron Patio Set Built From Reclaimed Pallet Wood
This patio set started as a truck bed full of free wood shipping pallets and turned into five separate pieces: a chevron-top dining table with two matching benches, a smaller accent table with a completely different four-way “pinwheel” chevron top, several straight-slat stools, and a two-tier plant stand. It’s the largest single build in the…
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Mid-Century Record Player Stand With Sound Bar & Vinyl Storage
U.S. vinyl revenue passed $1 billion in 2025 for the first time, according to the RIAA’s year-end report: nearly 47 million records sold. A record collection that size needs somewhere to actually live, and a turntable needs somewhere steady to sit, and increasingly people want that “somewhere” to look like it was designed on purpose.…
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A Modern Rustic Desk with a Torched Wood Top
A writing desk that pairs a clean, modern box-leg base with a top built from individually torched boards — a streaked gray-brown-copper finish in the spirit of shou sugi ban. Documented from burned boards to finished piece.
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DIY Coffee Table Made From a Reclaimed Door
A coffee table built around a salvaged window sash — its own glass panes and muntins become the tabletop, and cut-down sash panels form the sides and legs — shown from raw material through the finished piece.
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Modern Outdoor Bench with Open-Frame Legs
A modern outdoor bench with a distinctive open, cut-out rectangular leg and a slatted seat, left in a natural wood tone — shown here built more than once, from staged tools to a finished row of benches in the driveway.
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DIY Minimal Modern Coffee Table with a Floating Plywood Top
A low, minimalist coffee table built around a two-layer “floating” plywood top with a shadow-gap reveal, set on four individually splayed solid-wood legs joined with mortise-and-tenon joinery — including the leg-tapering jig and mitered frame that make both details possible.
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A Rustic Live-Edge Desk Built from Reclaimed Wood
A compact home-office desk built from a patchwork of reclaimed boards, finished with a hand-shaped wavy front edge for a live-edge look and set on angled A-frame legs — documented from raw frame to finished piece.
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Farmhouse Table and Benches for Backyard Entertaining
A farmhouse-style outdoor dining table and matching benches, built with a splayed trestle base and an X-brace stretcher — shown here in both raw pine and a warmer stained finish, from framing through the finished set at the table.
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Black Farmhouse Porch Bench with a Triple X-Back Design
A farmhouse-style porch bench built from dimensional lumber, featuring a triple X-back lattice back and finished in solid black for a clean, modern-farmhouse look.
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The 2×4 Slat Bench: A Simple, Modern Outdoor Build
A modern outdoor bench built entirely from construction-grade 2x4s — laminated waterfall-style legs, a slatted seat for drainage, and a dark stain finish. Documented from glue-up to the finished piece.