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Simple Lift-Top Storage Bed
A low plywood storage bed with a hinged, spring-lifted top for full-mattress-width access to hidden storage underneath.
- Intermediate
- $$$
- 5–7 hrs

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Lift-Top Coffee Table with Drawers

A showpiece coffee table in oak with four drawers and a lift-up top. Lots of parts, lots of pocket holes, and clamps — many clamps.

Expert
$$$$
15 hrs – 3 days

Console table with curved front panels and open shelving

Library Console Table

An open two-shelf console with jigsaw-curved end panels — cut the first curve carefully, then trace it as the template for the second.

Intermediate
$$
5–7 hrs

Leaning ladder desk with a writing surface and graduated shelves against a wall

Leaning Wall Ladder Desk

A leaning ladder desk — a writing surface plus graduated shelves that rest against the wall on 5°-raked legs. Small footprint, no wall anchoring needed to stand.

Intermediate
$$
3–5 hrs

Small leaning ladder-style side table with two shelves and angled legs

Ladder Table

A small two-tier leaning side table with angled legs, built from a couple of 1x3s and a 1x2. Easy cuts, but the leg angles make it a little tricky.

Intermediate
$
3–5 hrs

Tall homemade cat tower with plywood platforms and ramps between levels

Kitty Tree

A tall, open cat tower framed from 2x2s with plywood platforms and ramps between levels — a floor-to-ceiling climbing structure the cat actually uses.

Intermediate
$$
5–8 hrs

Small kitchen island with a slide-out drawer holding two trash bins

Small Kitchen Island with Slide-Out Double Trash Cans

A compact plywood-and-1x4 island whose front drawer is really a sliding tray sized to carry two standard trash bins, hidden behind a real drawer face.

Intermediate
$$$
5–7 hrs

Built-in kitchen island with sink base, trash pull-out, dishwasher panel, and open shelving

Kitchen Island with Open Shelving

A full multi-bay built-in island — a sink base, dishwasher panel, trash pull-out, and open shelving joined into one plywood carcass, finished with corbels under a fabricator-cut countertop.

Advanced
$$$$$
15 hrs – 3 days

King-size headboard with a wood frame around a padded fabric panel

King-Size Framed Upholstered Headboard

A king headboard with a built-up wood frame and legs surrounding a padded, fabric-wrapped panel — carpentry and upholstery in one build.

Intermediate
$$$
6–9 hrs

Kids' trestle craft table with storage cubbies built into the base

Kids' Trestle Craft Table with Storage

A cubby-storage box doubling as a trestle-style table base, with a jigsaw-cut foot silhouette on both feet — the storage bay and the base are the same piece.

Easy
$$
3–5 hrs

Toddler flip chair that gives two seat heights depending on which way up it sits

Kids Flip Chair / Toddler Flip Seat

A toddler chair that flips over to give two seat heights — one low, one higher — from the same little box. Five boards and a countersink bit.

Easy
$
1.5–3 hrs

Child's art center with a low pine bookshelf and an attached craft table

Kids' Art Center

A child-height bookshelf and a matching table that cantilevers off it — one weekend build that turns a corner into a craft station.

Easy
$$
4–6 hrs

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