This bird feeder woodworking plan comes to us via Amateur Woodworker. This particular feeder is designed to take bird seed, rather than the more typical left-over food scraps. The advantage of this style is that it can be filled up infrequently as it can store several weeks...
tags: birdhouse, garden, outside
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This mailbox plan is perfect for those of us who live ‘in town’. If you have your mail delivered right to you door this is a nice hand crafted replacement for some of those plastic mailboxes.
Reminiscent of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Arguably Scotland’s...
tags: mailbox, outside
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While this birdhouse is as simple as it gets, it has a lot going for it. It can be made very quickly…uses minimal materials and tools…and boasts a sleek look that will make any budding woodworker proud to say, “I built it all by myself!”. Besides screws and...
tags: birdhouse, garden, outside
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This ‘Mini’ Wishing Well Plan, is basically a square box planter base, with a wishing well style roof. The wood could be anything from an expensive cedar, to scrap bits of weather treated lumber. If anything, the scruffier the wood, the better this project might look...
tags: garden, outside, planter
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This simple one page project is easy—no fancy joints or glue—and inexpensive. The wood should cost no more than $45 for the dimensional cedar at a local home improvement center.
There is a decent sidebar called – “Cutting curves” which shows how to cut the curved seat,...
tags: bench, chair, garden, outside
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This free plan-set contains seven pages of detailed plans, drawings and step-by-step instructions for a 2400 x 3000 (8ft x 10ft) garden storage shed.
This is a very complete article, which starts off with a detailed materials list, followed by some very useful drawings and cross...
tags: building, sheds, storage
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Storage is like money; we never seem to have enough. Here’s another truism: storage is where you find it, and a frequently underused area is outside the home. But instead of suggesting the usual outdoor toolshed, this project shows you how to make a beautiful chest for storing...
tags: chests, garden, outside, storage
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We have all seen those cute cedar planters or buckets, but balked at the price (or just though “yer know, I could do that”. This is a nice article with some good pictures. Rather than a step-by-step, this is more of a conversational piece where the author walks you...
