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Tall-Back Wooden Planter Box
A cedar picket planter with a dramatically taller back panel than front — built from two mirror-image leg frames, so the height difference is designed in, not trimmed in after.
- Easy
- $$
- 2–3 hrs

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Small sturdy outdoor stool with cedar picket top, used as a side table

Outdoor

Sturdy Outdoor Side Table Stool

A three-step stool/side table from 2x3s and one fence picket — with the scrap-spacer trick that insets every apron exactly 1/2" without measuring once.

Beginner
$
1 hr – 2 hrs

Wooden street hockey goal frame with a net

Street Hockey Goal

A simple multi-sport goal frame you can build for indoor play from 1x4 and 2x2, or beef up with all 2x4s for a weatherproof outdoor version. Net not included.

Easy
$
2–4 hrs

Outdoor console table with stair-baluster legs and a slatted top and shelf

Stair Baluster Outdoor Console Table

A slatted console table with a lower notched shelf, standing on square stair-baluster legs.

Intermediate
$$
6–9 hrs

Square wooden picnic table with attached seats on all four sides

Square Picnic Table

A 47-1/2" square picnic table that seats eight — everyone faces everyone, nobody straddles a bench end, and the L-shaped corner legs carry it all.

Easy
$$
5–7 hrs

Small modern chicken coop with slanted tin roof and cedar picket siding

Small Modern Chicken Coop

A slant-roof coop that doesn't look agricultural: cedar picket siding, an off-the-shelf tin roof panel, removable floor, and doors sized for actual cleaning access.

Intermediate
$$$
10–16 hrs

Small slatted cedar firewood shed with sloped roof

Small Firewood Shed

A 6-foot firewood shed with a 15° sloped roof, slatted picket sides that dry the wood, and a raised 2x6 floor that keeps the bottom row off the dirt.

Easy
$$$
4–6 hrs

Small raised chicken coop with under-run, external nesting box, and built-in planter

Small Chicken Coop with Planter & Clean-Out Tray

A raised backyard coop on 4x4 legs with a wire run below, a slide-out clean-out tray, an external nesting box — and a planter box built into the roofline.

Advanced
$$$$
16 hrs – 3 days

Slatted outdoor coffee table with a lower shelf, built from furring strips

Slatted Outdoor Coffee Table

A patio coffee table built almost entirely from cheap furring strips, with a slatted top that drains rain and a lower shelf that stiffens the whole thing.

Easy
$$
5–8 hrs

Single chicken nesting box with an angled cedar picket roof

Single Chicken Nesting Box

A small angled-roof nesting box built from a 1x12 floor-and-side frame with cedar fence picket walls and roof — a simple standalone box rather than a full coop.

Beginner
$
1 hr – 1.5 hrs

Reclining outdoor chaise lounge with a pivoting backrest

Simplest Wood Chaise Lounge

A reclining outdoor lounge chair with a pivot-bolted backrest that adjusts against a stop block — a genuinely mechanical outdoor chair, not just a fixed-angle lounger.

Intermediate
$$$
4–6 hrs

Small white outdoor end table with a slatted top

Simple White Outdoor End Table

A small 2x2-legged patio end table with a breadboard-ended 1x3 top. Cheap, quick, and built two ways depending on whether you have a Kreg jig.

Easy
$
2.5–5 hrs

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