Furniture Making

There are several ways you can make a fashion doll dining chair. It all comes down to how much time and money you want to spend on the project. If you're making the chair for a child to use, it's...

Building your own piano stool is moderately challenging, but you will have a great feeling of accomplishment after you complete the project. You will need 4 wooden legs (measured to your desired...

An easy, eco-friendly way of creating your own personalized bookcase is to use old cardboard slip sheets or boxes and a hot glue gun. Cardboard is surprisingly strong when layered and can hold...

Plumbing pipe (polyvinyl chloride--PVC) is a good medium to make many projects around the home. You can make a homemade clothing rack with PVC pipe in as little as one afternoon. The pipe is...

A new baby is a precious and exciting event in a couple's life. Many times a family member will make something special before the baby arrives. You can make a beautiful baby cot. This process can...

If your child enjoys pretending to be a pirate, you can help him or her make a pirate's chest. This treasure chest can then be filled with fake gold coins, fake jewelry or some kind of treat. You...

Gorilla Glue is an especially tacky glue specifically designed to make different types of surfaces adhere to each other. The company makes a variety of products, including a wood glue and a super...

It is good to know how to glue wood to plastic if you are making a repair involving the two. Or, as seen in the photo above, making mixed media furniture or art is much easier (and more durable)...

Explains how to make an easy wall shelf.

Plexiglas is a brand name of sheet acrylic. Working with Plexiglas is fun and easy. Plexiglas is a wonderful material for constructing just about anything. It is affordable, durable, shatterproof,...

Every once in awhile we run across a wonderful yard sale find... and it even had an acceptable material on it... until it started to peel away! Someone didn't know how to use a hot glue gun to...

Building a stool from leftover sheets (or new) of cardboard is a great exercise in how to create a functional piece of furniture from an everyday material. This project can be used as an...

Creating a homemade lunchbox can be a quick, budget-friendly craft. Creating lunch boxes can be as easy as using things around your house, such as a coffee can or an old money box.

Long ago, country folks used a three-legged side table to hold a candle by their chair, but these tables are just as useful today for a lamp or a TV remote control. Here's how to build your own...

Making a wooden stool is a fun project. You can use your imagination and make it simple or challenging. It's up to you. You have to decide the material to be used; oak, cherry, maple. Decide the...

Characterized by its similarity to a household chandelier with its many dangling baubles, a chandelier table lamp can add ambiance to the plainest of rooms. While many finished versions are quite...

PVC pipe doesn't make for the most attractive table, but it is easy to assemble, inexpensive and durable. A PVC table is great for outdoor use, utility, and temporary use while you look for new...

Here is a cheap but nice looking way to make a wood shelf unit.

There are lots of reasons you might need a breakable table. Perhaps you’re interested in playing a prank on a friend that requires you to break some furniture without getting hurt. Set...

A wooden baby cradle is the perfect place for one's newborn baby to sleep during the first few months after it is born. One can place the cradle in one's room until the baby is big enough to sleep...

Cane webbing, sheet cane, machine cane and spline cane are a few different names of this type of chair caning. It was invented in the 1870s and is a mechanized version of caning a chair. ...

Removing the rattan reed spline in a machine woven cane or a cane webbing chair seat can sometimes be the hardest part of this recaning process! Sometimes you'll get really lucky and the glue...

My best friend and I really did play with Barbies as little girls, but not in the way most girls did. We spent more time making them furniture than we did acting out scenes with them. With a few...

With its clean lines and simple design, the Parsons table has become a timeless piece of furniture. Attributed to Jean-Michel Frank from New York's Parsons School of Design, this table was first...

But building a chair can be more complicated to make than some other woodworking projects. If you want to build a straight back chair of your own, it will help to have some carpentry experience,...

A well made dovetail joint is a testament to a furniture maker's skill, because of both its beauty and its strength. However, in order to get the maximum holding power from a dovetail joint, you...

Make a button lampshade with all of those extra buttons lying around the house. It is a fun and easy way to make use of your button collection while adding some decoration to your home. Here are...