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Wall-Mounted Oak Coat Rack
One oak board, five turned or bought pegs, mounted into studs. Ninety minutes, and it holds a winter's worth of coats.
- Beginner
- $
- 1 hr – 2 hrs

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Nature Inspired Floor Lamp

A slim modern floor lamp with an angled 2x2 arm, built from a 1x2 base and 2x2 upright, wired with an IKEA cord kit and a replacement plug. Woodwork plus simple wiring.

Intermediate
$$
3–5 hrs

Gifts & Small Projects

Multi Guitar Stand

A simple 1x-lumber stand sized to hold several guitars upright side by side.

Easy
$
1.5–2.5 hrs

Mountain-shaped plywood wall rack with dowel peg hooks

Gifts & Small Projects

Mountain Wall Hooks

A mountain-silhouette plywood plaque with dowel pegs for hooks — a quick, cute wall rack for a kid's room or entry, made from a scrap of plywood and a dowel.

Easy
$
2–3 hrs

Scroll-cut plywood monogrammed snowflake wall decor

Gifts & Small Projects

Monogrammed Snowflake Cutout

A scroll-cut plywood snowflake laid out with true six-fold symmetry — a paper-folding approach on the layout, then careful scroll-jigsaw work for the cutouts.

Easy
$
1.5–2.5 hrs

Modular stackable wooden dollhouse with interchangeable room, deck, and roof pieces

Gifts & Small Projects

Modular Stackable Dollhouse

A build-your-own-set dollhouse system — plywood room boxes, railed decks, and peaked roof modules that stack in any combination.

Easy
$$
4–6 hrs

Small modern cedar birdhouse with clean flat panels

Gifts & Small Projects

Modern Cedar Fence Picket Birdhouse

A clean-lined birdhouse from half of one resawn cedar picket — six flat panels, no roof pitch, no scrollwork, just a simple modern box a bird will actually use.

Beginner
$
45 min – 1.3 hrs

Layered mitered corner picture frame built from 1x2 boards

Gifts & Small Projects

Mitered Corner 1x2 Frames

A layered picture frame built from two mitered 1x2 rings, one nested inside the other, so the frame reads as two-tone even in a single wood species.

Easy
$
1 hr – 1.7 hrs

Gifts & Small Projects

Magnetic Knife Block

Rare-earth magnets buried in a hardwood slab. No slots to trap crumbs, no dulling the edges.

Easy
$$
2–3.5 hrs

Gifts & Small Projects

Low-Rise Candle Holder

A small scrap-wood pedestal that lifts a row of three candles up on a raised base.

Beginner
$
45 min – 1.3 hrs

Pair of lightweight wooden cornhole boards with folding legs set up on a lawn

Gifts & Small Projects

Lightweight Cornhole Boards

A regulation-size cornhole set built with 1x3 frames and 1/2" plywood instead of 2x4s and 3/4" — half the weight, so it actually gets carried to the yard and used.

Easy
$$
3–5 hrs

Floating table runner riser with a recessed base frame

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Floating Table Runner Riser

A tiny 1x8 riser on a recessed 1x2 frame — the frame sits well inside the top's edges, so the whole thing reads as floating rather than resting flat on the table.

Beginner
$
30–50 min

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