We build furniture!

Pinterest really keeps our house busy these days!  I love trying new things and thanks to my Pinterest addiction, I have discovered Ana White's blog.  She makes everything and gives you the plans complete with  the tool list, cut list, etc.  Armed with ZERO knowledge of how to use power tools of any kind really and a very patient husband, we were off to build our first piece of furniture.

Our house was built in 1977 and for whatever reason our family room and living room do not have overhead lighting so we had to incorporate lamps, which I love, now.  Since we have started our home decor projects in the family room (check out our Pinterest inspired shelving post-when I get it up ha), we felt we  needed end tables to hold our lights.  We decided to start with some Rustic X End Tables.

As Ana White instructed we read through the plans and the comments to be as familiar with our project as possible.  Our exciting Friday night consisted of a family outing to Lowes to grab our wood and the Kreg Jig.  The following morning was go time.  After Daniel returned from his hike, he gave me my first tutorial on the miter saw.  I must say I'm a quick study and after measuring all of my pieces twice so that I could cut once, I knocked out the cut list times two since we were making two end tables.

These beauties now complete our family room!

 Now I just have to stain them and they will be finished. Wonder when I will get to that??