Building furniture for your own home, as gifts, or for profit, can be both rewarding and very challenging. Working with fine woods and intricate details, and then sanding and finishing the surfaces to a consistent sheen, takes experience and patience. And, it can get very expensive when you add the cost in wood, time and inevitable errors.

If you're not a fine furniture type of woodworker. But, if you still want to create some wonderful pieces, you might want to check out some plans in country and primitive styles. You can work with inexpensive pine or poplar and apply simple, one or two coat color stains, or just paint your creation. Nicks, knots and other imperfections just seem to add character to country style furniture. Drop a hammer and you've got "distressed" wood. Country furniture collectors love that.

Popular Woodworking Magazine offers some great DIY plans for country style furniture. From simple to fairly challenging these project plans and step-by-step instructions will help you build beautiful country style tables, cabinets, sideboards and much more. There are even hard-to-find plans for a pencil post bed.

Corner Shelf

Country Tool & Toy Chest

Canted Wall Box

Simple Barrister Bookcases

Kentucky Sideboard

Country Dry Sink

Traditional Entertainment Center

Drop-Leaf Table

Spice Cabinet

Martha's Vineyard Cupboard

American Cabinet & Sideboard

Pencil Post Bed

Tavern Table

Popular Woodworking's Online Resource Directory serves woodworkers of all skill levels and woodworking interests. From tools and materials, to project plans and classes to build your skills, you'll find the information you need.

Don Berg

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