"If you're looking for good ideas for projects that you and your family can live with for a long time, this is the right book."--Woodwork If you can fasten two boards together with nails or screws, you can decorate your entire house with great-looking furniture you've constructed yourself! Made with minimal materials (readily available stock lumber and parts), these 20 inexpensive and basic projects cover a variety of tables, benches, stools, shelves, and bookcases--everything you could possibly need. Build a simple cupboard that fits cozily into a corner, an entertainment center to neatly hold your electronic goodies, a spacious desk where you can work comfortably, and a beautiful dining table where family and guests can partake of good food and company. A special section introduces the techniques you'll need, every project includes a precise cutting list and detailed diagrams, and there are ideas for stains, paints, and other embellishments so your furniture will fit your décor precisely.

Terrific 2x4 Furniture: Building Stylish Furniture From Standard Lumber

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Henderson, Stevie

BALDWIN, Mark

Home Improvement & Design

Sterling/Lark

Woodworkers will enjoy building these 21 good-looking and functional pieces of outdoor furniture, thanks to easy-to-follow instructions, full-color photos, and detailed drawings. Every project’s attractive, inexpensive, and requires only basic tools and off the shelf lumber to construct.

Great Outdoor 2x4 Furniture: 21 Easy Projects to Build

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. For every project you’ll find instructions, copious illustrations, and a cutting guide.

Great 2x4 Accessories for Your Home: Making Candlesticks, Coatracks, Mirrors, Footstalls & More

These 60 great-looking, distinctive projects will solve your Christmas gift-list problem faster than Santa’s reindeer can fly. Some take only about 10 minutes, and you don’t need special craft skills or unusual materials. Pick up plants and potting soil to construct a living garden of succulents. Build a simple CD rack. Whip up herbal bath oil. It’s easy!

Last-Minute Christmas Gifts: Crafting Quick & Classy Presents for Everyone on Your List

Taylor,Carol

Sports & Outdoors

Deck the tree with homemade ornaments—pomanders, potpourris, buttons and bows, paint, glitter, and glue and edibles, too. And every one will make you feel part of a centuries-old tradition of holiday crafting. Fashion fragrant herb balls made of bay leaves, lavender, sassafras, and rose petals, and enjoy their lovely perfume mingled with evergreen. Added gems: tiny quilts, “Wild West” trinkets, papier-mâché birds, and more.

Treasures for the Christmas Tree: 101 Festive Ornaments to Make & Enjoy

Crafts & Hobbies

2 X 4 Project 4 - Set

HENDERSON

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. They’ll learn how to select lumber, work with it once they get it home, make the cuts and simple joints required, and create cabinets, shelves, desks, tables, chests, and more. Over twenty projects range from an elegant armoire to a practical kitchen cabinet. There are complete materials lists, numbered illustrations, and full-color photos of each finished project.

Great-Looking 2x4 Furniture

Making Mosaics: Designs, Techniques & Projects

“Of greatest use to beginners. The dozen projects will introduce first-time mosaicists to the art without...frustration.”—Booklist “You’ll never look at a shard of glass in the same way again.”—Glass Craftsman Innovative techniques, in tandem with striking and original designs, will make you revel in the creative pleasure of fashioning beautiful mosaics. An overview covers four basic mosaic methods: pique assiette, which uses fragments from plates, mugs, and pictures; direct (just lay it down and glue); indirect, where the work is done on a temporary surface before being cemented; and three dimensional applications. Magically transform everyday objects into art by replacing a standard kitchen counter with one covered in fragments of stone, glass, and pottery, or turning a simple lamp into a finely crafted sculpture. For additional inspiration, 50 artists provide invaluable hints and tricks of the trade.

Dierks, Leslie

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