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• Building Unique and Useful Kids' Furniture: 24 Great Do-It-Yourself Projects

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  24 Great Do-It-Yourself Projects by Spike Carlsen Give your child a unique gift of a lifetime?without breaking your checkbook?and you and your kid will have fun making it! Building Unique and Useful Kids’ Furniture: 24 Great Do-It-Yourself Projects gives complete step-by-step instructions for building 24 professionally designed one-of-a-kind children’s furniture projects that are easy to build and your kids will love. You don’t need advanced skills. You don’t need specialized tools. You don’t need expensive materials. All of these projects can be built using basic tools and materials from any home improvement store. Step-by-step instructions and color photos show you exactly what to do?and many projects are labeled “Kid Friendly,” so your child can safely help you build it, developing their skills and confidence. These projects will fill every room of your house with kids’ furniture that is cleverly designed, attractive, whimsical, safe, with timeless design that look fresh 20 years from now, giving your kids a lasting legacy to pass on to their kids.

• ARTS AND CRAFTS FURNITURE: PROJECTS YOU CAN BUILD

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  by Blair Howard. 15 projects for the woodworker. These projects represent the work of not only the most famous members of the movement but also of such designers as Oscar Onken and Charles Limbert, whose works are not commonly presented in other woodworking project books. Includes step-by-step instructions, joinery, measured drawings, fumed oak process, and bills of material. Projects include a print stand by Frank Lloyd Wright, book stand by Oscar Onken, Book Case by Limbert, a writing desk by G. Stickley and more.

• FWW: TABLES AND CHAIRS

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  A collection of top-rated projects – all in one gorgeous book. At Fine Woodworking, our editors are always on the lookout for quality projects in a variety of styles that meet our standards. Those that do are featured in our magazine, on our website, in videos and some are available in print and digital plans. And now for your enjoyment, 18 of our favorite table and chair projects are showcased all together in Fine Woodworking: Best Tables & Chairs. Furniture to inspire and challenge you. Whatever your abilities, Best Tables & Chairs has a place in your shop. It’s bursting with beautifully made projects that will inspire beginners to try their hand at furniture making, perhaps for the first time. For the more advanced, there are plenty of challenges to stretch your skills and advance your understanding of this fine art. Something for every taste and every skill level. From simple to sophisticated, the beautiful projects in Best Tables & Chairs are tempting to consider. But you can do more than look and wish. Because it also provides you with clear instruction and the detailed drawings so you can create your own masterpieces, including gorgeous pieces like these ... •Limbert-style coffee table •Porringer-top tea table •Bow-front hall table •Arts & Crafts side table •Hayrake dining table •Philadelphia side chair •And so much more!

• FWW: CHESTS AND CABINETS

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  The comprehensive woodworking sourcebook. Finally the best casework projects from America's foremost woodworking magazine are assembled in one book, Chests and Cabinets. For years woodworkers, seeking the finest woodworking projects, have turned to Fine Woodworking magazine, FineWoodworking.com, and Fine Woodworking-branded digital and print plans to create exquisite furniture projects. Now you can have expert information, guidance, and instruction all in one book! Step-by-step instruction. Through clear instruction, fine detailed working drawings, and hundreds of beautiful photographs guide you through projects from start to finish with: •Hard-to-find, practical advice •Expert instruction for building a wide range of storage projects •Information and inspiration for all styles from Shaker to Modern designs 18 projects in all styles. The styles vary widely ensuring something for everyone's taste. You'll find just the storage project you are looking for here: •Chests and Cupboards •Hickory and Ash Blanket Chest •Shaker Chest of Drawers •Classic Storage Cupboard, and more •Sideboards and Consoles •The High Art of the Lowboy •Arts and Crafts on Display •A Low Console for Home Theater, and more •Wall Cabinets •A Better Way to Build Wall Cabinets •Wall Cabinet in Cherry •Build a Vanity Cabinet •Bookcase •Quick, Sturdy Bookcase •Cherry and Fir Bookcase •A Portable Book Rack, and more

• Arts & Crafts Furniture Projects

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  Build skills and classic furniture pieces for your home. Author Gregory Paolini is a professional woodworker, with an affinity for the Arts and Crafts style. When he isn't building and teaching classes in his workshop, Paolini writes woodworking books with expert instruction, including this must-have guide – Arts & Crafts Furniture Projects. If you like Arts & Crafts style, you will want this book in your shop. Appealing to both beginner and seasoned woodworkers, Arts &Crafts Furniture Projects showcases nine iconic furniture projects that vary in difficulty. Timeless and always in style, Arts & Crafts is a perennial favorite and a style that works nicely with almost any home decor. Learn from an expert. Now, with help from Gregory Paolini, you can construct a beautiful suite of handcrafted furniture for your home! The projects featured here take you from the basics to advanced techniques – all clearly demonstrated in 25 detailed illustrations and 250 beautiful and instructive photographs.

• Taunton's BOOKCASES CABINETS AND BUILT-INS

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  It’s a universal need—more storage. Whether you’re housing books and DVDs, kitchen items, sports gear for the kids, or even the very tools you use to create woodworking projects like these, a little extra storage goes a long way. Following the success of the best-selling Shelves, Cabinets & Bookcases, this all-new collection of 25 how-to articles from recent issues of Fine Homebuilding and Fine Woodworking magazines will inspire carpenters, woodworkers, and DIY-ers of all skill levels to create practical yet beautiful units for keeping life straight. Sturdy and attractive is the theme that runs through each project, including a multitude of bookcases, entertainment center built-ins, mudroom clutter busters, and custom kitchen cabinets. Expert advice from America’s most accomplished craftsmen will lead the way for designing and building the cabinets, built-ins, and bookcases readers will love.

• All New Built-Ins Idea Book: Closets*Mudrooms*Cabinets*Pantries (Taunton Home Id

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  “If we just had a little more space!” Organization and decluttering are always on homeowners’ minds, whether designing their dream home or reconfiguring the one they have. The latest in the popular Idea Book series, the completely revised All New Built-Ins Idea Book builds on the success of the original (one of Taunton’s all-time bestsellers) and showcases a wide range of built-in and storage possibilities. A handy visual clip file, it’s full of fresh ideas for creating rooms that are both functional and stylish. From niches and bookcases to linen closets and pantries, built-ins can have a huge architectural impact on any home. Starting with the basics, this guide answers the questions of what to store, where to store, and how to store—with design solutions for kitchens, bathrooms, home offices, entertainment spaces, bedrooms, mudrooms, laundry rooms, and more. Readers are sure to make extra room for this richly illustrated space-solver.

• Arts & Crafts Furniture Anyone Can Make [Paperback]

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  While many 2x4 books offer pretty clunky furniture projects, it doesn?t have to be that way. Arts & Crafts furniture designs lend themselves to working with dimensional lumber fairly easily. Working with 1x, 2x and some plywood (all available in home center stores), many attractive furniture pieces (for indoors and outdoors) are not only possible, but simple. This book includes 20 Arts & Crafts inspired furniture and household pieces, built using dimensional lumber from home center stores. Joinery is simple (biscuits, dowels and screws) and require very limited woodworking tools and machinery.

• BUILDING DOORS & DRAWERS

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  "A Complete Guide to Design and Construction". The face of any cabinet, whether in a kitchen, bath, built-in or stand-alone furniture is the doors and drawers. They, along with moldings or trim, define the style of a cabinet. Beyond the wide variety of stylistic differences, there are dozens of ways to build drawers or doors. And different methods have specific applications, depending on the use of the cabinet. While it's easy to learn how to build a basic cabinet box, making durable, well-fitting, and attractive doors and drawers is more challenging. This book covers all styles and methods of building drawers and doors, as well as installing hardware and design. Also covers full size doors.

• Building Kitchen Cabinets Made Simple

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  Cabinets come in many styles and finishes, but the one thing they have in common is how much they can influence the overall appearance of a kitchen. A run of new cabinets can completely transform a space — and add significantly to the value of a home. It’s no wonder they can cost so much. But now they don’t have to. Kitchen Cabinets Made Simple demystifies kitchen cabinet construction and makes it possible for the dedicated do-it-yourselfer to build new cabinets for a fraction of the cost of buying them. This multi-media approach — DVD and illustrated book guide — visually and completely instruct woodworkers throughout the process of building sturdy face-frame cabinets with frame-and-panel doors. It’s all in here — from drawing out a plan and constructing the cabinet boxes to finishing and installation.

• Building Small Cabinets [Paperback]

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  A thoughtfully designed cabinet, built of carefully selected materials, transcends its utilitarian storage role into functional art. The eight wonderful small cabinets in this book will inspire novice and intermediate woodworkers to create a project that showcases not only their treasures, but also their talent. Detailed instructions along with 300 color photos and 30 drawings will help readers hone their cabinetmaking abilities, while design suggestions encourage them to use their own creativity and craftsmanship to customize the projects and make them their own

• CABINETS & STORAGE SOLUTIONS, Best of Woodworkers Journal

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  From a simple toy chest, to an innovative angler's cabinet, to an elegant cherry china closet-this book delivers plenty of creative solutions to your home storage problems. Plus, there are projects suitable for every woodworking skill level-from the enthusiastic beginner to the seasoned pro. Each project includes detailed plans, expert instructions, and helpful tips to ensure that your finished piece is both great-looking and long-lasting. What's Inside: * 16 beautiful and practical cabinet and storage projects for every room of your home * Comprehensive material lists * Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions * Detailed technical and exploded drawings * helpful quick tips from the experts

• CUTTING-EDGE CABINETMAKING

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  Robert Ingham has an unrivalled reputation as a designer and an artist, and this, his first and possibly only book, offers unprecedented insight into his philosophy on design, materials, and construction. Aimed at intermediate to experienced cabinetmakers, it draws together his most thought-provoking articles from Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazine. With a mix of practical tips, inspiration, and superb images, Ingham discusses everything from his innovative development of jigs to his boundary-pushing techniques and aesthetics. Includes 5 beautiful projects: a workbench, sideboard, oak china cabinet, chest of drawers, and laminated dressing table.

• ILLUSTRATED CABINETMAKING

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  "How to design & Construct Furniture that Works." The most complete visual guide to furniture construction ever published! Includes hundreds of clearly-labeled drawings and exploded diagrams that explain everything there is to know about joints, subassemblies & furniture design.

• Installing Kitchen Cabinets Made Simple: Includes Companion Step-by-Step Video

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  One of the best investments any owner can make to add value to their home is to renovate a kitchen. New cabinets and fresh countertops can make a world of difference. Both are surprisingly easy to install as detailed in this integrated book/DVD video by professional cabinetmaker Gregory Paolini. Through a comprehensive, multimedia approach he shows exactly how to do it yourself, from choosing the right cabinetry and countertop materials to preparing the site for easy installation. There’s valuable direction for installing both wall and base cabinets so they’re level and square, as well as perfecting side panels and trim around the cabinets. The author’s foolproof methods apply to both stock and custom cabinets, giving readers plenty of options—both high-end and economical—for updating their kitchens. Step-by-step text, photos, sidebars, and “WorkSmart” tips will go a long way in getting the new look just right.

• MAKING CABINETS AND BUILT-INS

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  Sam Allen provides novice woodworkers with the finest guide to creating cabinetry. It takes newcomers by the hand and leads them through every process in detail, from understanding the properties of wood to reading a plan, from layout, squaring, and cutting to joinery and assembly. Allen discusses lumber grades, sizes, and prices; edge treatments for plywood and reconstituted wood products; transferring patterns; and handling all the necessary tools, plus much more.

• POPULAR MECHANICS - TRIM CARPENTRY

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  Anyone can learn the pros’ carpentry secrets thanks to Popular Mechanics and Rick Peters. Popular Mechanics covers everything: the equipment needed and how to use it; window and door casings; baseboards; all types of molding (including the always-challenging crown molding); wainscoting; and architectural trim like gingerbread. There are even insider tips on decorative molding, including how to dress up a plain door so it looks like it has raised panels. For owners wanting to add trim to their home, this book is the most valuable tool of all!

• Popular Woodworking's Arts & Crafts Furniture Projects: 25 Designs For Every Roo

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  Simple and beautiful, Arts & Crafts furniture designs offer an excellent learning medium for furniture building. The Arts & Crafts style allows the craftsman to build a quality piece of furniture in a reasonable amount of time while providing a very successful and satisfying experience. This book offers a collection of twenty-five Arts & Crafts furniture projects for every room in your home. Some of the projects are accurate reproductions of the original furniture pieces, while others are loving adaptations of the style. In addition to the projects in the book, we've included a Bonus CD-ROM with ten furniture projects and ten technique articles to provide even more information on construction and finishing. This book represents a collection of projects that the Popular Woodworking staff considers to be some of most visually appealing pieces of furniture ever created.

• Taunton's SHELVES, CABINETS & BOOKCASES

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  Subtitle: "A complete guide to building customized storage space". Originally published in the pages of Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding magazines, the articles in this book feature designs, construction details, and tips from some of the most accomplished carpenters and woodworkers in the country. Whether you want to make a simple built-in or a high style bookcase, kitchen cabinets or a media center, you'll find every last detail is here -- with clear, step-by-step instructions and useful graphics. Here are some of the topics you'll learn about: * Supporting Shelves * Six Ways to Edge Plywood * Dressing Up a Basic Box * Arts & Crafts Wall Shelf * Bookshelves in a Day * Outfitting a Closet * Built-in Basics * Building around Electronics * Installing Kitchen Cabinets * Re-facing Kitchen Cabinets * Drawer Design Strategies

• The Drawer Book: A Comprehensive Guide For Woodworkers

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  No detail exemplifies the quality of a piece of furniture better than a drawer; and no other aspect of furniture making causes as much anxiety. The Drawer Book gives you foolproof steps to create every kind of drawer, with every kind of woodworking joint, as well as professional information on the best way to fit and mount every drawer. With this book and careful work you can create your own top quality drawers.

• BUILD LIKE A PRO: BUILDING KITCHEN CABINETS

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  Any serious do-it-yourselfer can build their own kitchen cabinets with the knowledge gained from this book. Schmidt is a professional cabinetmaker and guide the reader through all of the facets of building professional quality cabinets. Includes everything from choosing materials to finishing the cabinets and installing the hardware.

• BUILD YOUR OWN KITCHEN CABINETS

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  2nd edition. This step by step guide walks readers through the stages of planning, design, construction and installation. Proulx illustrates planning, cutting, assembly details for upper and lower cabinets. There is a wide range of styles discussed along with practical information on kitchen design and standard materials. The combination of European and traditional cabinetry is also discussed. Proulx is a professional kitchen cabinetmaker and designer.

• Building Cabinet Doors & Drawers [LSI]

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  Doors and drawers are the working parts of cabinets, and they're also what people see. That's why doors and drawers are so important-how they're designed and made determines how the cabinet looks and functions. Novice woodworkers often find the design of a door or drawer to be intimidating. Proulx offers step-by-step instructions on a wide variety of doors and drawers. Included are pull-outs for kitchens, slab doors, frame-and-panel, arched frame-and-panel, cope-and-stick, glass panel, tambour doors, and various types of drawers.

• BUILDING TRADITIONAL KITCHEN CABINETS: Revised and Updated

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  The standard text on face frame cabinets; revised and updated to include the latest techniques, brand-new materials, and in-depth instructions for installing traditional kitchen cabinets. Tolpin covers the complete process from design to layout, door style and hardware.

• CABINET DOORS AND DRAWERS BOOK SET

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  Get two premier cabinet-building books together and save: Danny Proulx's BUILDING CABINET DOORS AND DRAWERS combined with David Getts' THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO CABINET DOORS AND DRAWERS. See items 3-85 and 3-96 respectively for further details. Bought separately your cost would be $47.90. Save 20% ($9.58) when purchased as a set!

• Cabinetmakers Notebook

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  A well known work by Krenov, this is the first in a series of four books written about the art and craft of cabinetmaking. Very good. Quite inspirational. Paper.

• CABINETMAKING PROCEDURES FOR THE SMALL SHOP

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  An amateur cabinetmaker, no matter how skillful, runs into a whole new set of problems when he or she takes on a large project-building all the cabinets for a kitchen or a study, for example-or ventures into cabinetmaking as a commercial venture. For these larger production projects, the issues of accurate and consistant measurement, standardization, effciency, and procedure become crucial This practical manual explains how to keep the work flowing and how to keep in a custom cabinet shop.

• CRAFTSMAN HOMES: ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHINGS OF THE AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS

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  This is taken from Stickley's magazine "The Craftsman" and reprints 296 architectural drawings, photographs, and floor plans along with essays on the simplification of life and the art of home building.

• CRAFTSMAN HOMES: More than 40 plans for building classic

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  More than 40 plans for building classic Arts & Crafts style cottages, cabins, and bungalows. A compilation of the best of the home designs from "The Craftsman" magazine published by Stickley. Each plan includes measured rooms sizes as well as a rendering of the finished house and a complete description. Many also include a rendering of one of the rooms of the house.

• EASY MISSION STYLE WOODWORKING PROJECTS

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  Mission-style furniture, with its straight lines and cut-out features, is in style again. This volume, a republication of the 1922 edition, is one of the best manual art instruction books of the early 1900s. Projects include decorative accessories, lamps, tables, chairs, a writing desk, and more. Includes diagrams, measurements and instructions. Perfect guide for parent-child workshop projects.

• ESSENTIALS OF WOODWORKING: PRACTICAL DESIGN SOLUTIONS AND STRATEGIES

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  This detailed volume covers a wide range of aesthetic and structural design options. Readers will discover new ways to conceive projects, organize their construction, and engineer them to last. Plus they'll get inspired by options for tables, cabinets, and chairs.

• FOR PROS BY PROS: CABINETS AND COUNTERTOPS

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  Learn how the pros build and install cabinets and countertops (and how you can avoid some costly mistakes). These 17 articles from past issues of Fine Homebuilding magazine were written by builders and represent the hard-won knowledge of professionals who have learned from their mistakes.

• GREENE & GREENE

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  "A colorful new photographic tour of the legendary work of Charles & Henry Greene. Rand has documented the Greene's works since 1959. His images focus on details- architectural elements, lighting, materials, etc. The art of the Greene's is interpreted by Rand in 150 choice photographs, documenting the culmination of the Craftsman period and highlighting the art and workmanship of the architects.

• Greene & Greene: Design Elements for the Workshop

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  Greene & Greene furniture is famous for its refined details and striking design. Yet craftsmen have had difficulty replicating these pieces due to their rarity. This book is the solution furniture makers have been looking for. Peart provides step-by-step projects that faithfully reproduce the essential, distinctive Greene & Greene details such as cloudlifts, leg indents, brackets, ebony plugs, and more. There is also background information of the Greene brothers and the Hall brothers. Peart is a professional furniture maker and teacher in Washington state.

• Illustrated Guide to Cabinet Doors and Drawers

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  Your complete how-to reference! Virtually every door and drawer variation that a cabinetmaker is likely to encounter is addressed and explained in this comprehensive guide. Designed to provide tips for both the professional woodworker and the hobbyist. Covers construction of all types of cabinet doors and drawers, extensive, full color gallery of door and drawer styles, extensive coverage of door and drawer hardware and installation, pocket doors, coopered doors, edge banding, veneer work, metal drawers, and much more.

• Impractical Cabinetmaker, The: Krenov on Composing, Making, and Detailing

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  This was the final book in Krenov's trilogy. It is an in depth, personal look at the "do's and don't's" of creating fine furniture. This is both an educational and philosophical treatise. Cabinetmakers of all levels will be inspired by Krenov's understanding of the craft.

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