DIY Furniture Ideas

Are you planning a DIY furniture building project? Curious to know where to get started and how? We have the answers for you. From tutorial videos to top projects, we have ideas to inspire you and get you going in the exciting world of furniture building. Be sure to follow the popular discussions happening right now on the topic.

15 Creative DIY Wood Projects

Create Your Own Furniture

Save money and build your furniture: Furniture can be expensive, which is why a cost-effective solution is to build your own. You can even mimic your favorite companies.
Measure twice, cut once: Double-check your measurements to make sure you have the right ones when cutting materials so that you don't have to do it again.
Sand any wood you use: When using wood, make sure to sand each piece before assembling.
Don't take shortcuts: If something is written in the instructions, it's there for a reason. Don’t try to skip a step to get done faster.
Practice makes perfect: The first chair you make may not turn out so well, but don’t let that deter you from trying again and honing your skills.

More building categories

Top DIY Furniture Building Projects

Check out our top furniture building projects. All the DIY you need right here.

Customize Your Room By Building Your Own Bed Frame

Building your own bed frame is a great way to customize any bedroom in your home. Bed frames can even be built by the novice DIYer on a shoestring budget. These frames can be styled to suit your decor, using odds-and-ends as headboards or providing space underneath for storage. Here are some great ideas for building your own DIY bed frame.

Best Of Hometalk

Solve Your Entry Dilemmas With an Easy Entryway Bench DIY

The entryway into your home is a super high-traffic location that takes a serious beating as evidenced by the amount of stuff that passes through on any given day. It’s an easy place to leave coats or shoes, mail or shopping bags, keys or purses, backpacks or stuff for the dog, so it’s an instantly high-clutter zone as well.

Best Of Hometalk

11 Budget-Friendly DIY Coffee Tables

Let’s be real. When it comes to the living room, it’s all about the coffee table these days. It’s the place where we set our hot chocolate on those cold days, kick up our feet while watching television, or where our kids set up their coloring books and board games.

Best Of Hometalk

20 DIY Vanity DIY Projects You Can Do Right Now

You can easily find your perfect new vanity look now, with these 20 DIY vanity projects that show just how versatile – in both style and size – a vanity can be.

Best Of Hometalk

Gorgeous Wood Countertops Anybody Can DIY

Wood countertops are a stunningly beautiful look and can bring such warmth to any location in your home whether it be wood kitchen countertops, wood bathroom countertops, in a laundry room, or even in an underutilized nook. The possibilities in design, shape, and color are seemingly endless, providing one with a truly custom look all their own.

Best Of Hometalk

DIY Platform Beds Ideas

A DIY platform bed with storage is one of the best ways to maximize living space in a small bedroom, and you can create your own on the budget with these great ideas here!

Best Of Hometalk

6 Creative DIY Computer Desks

These six super creative DIY computer desks will get you inspired for your next DIY!

Best Of Hometalk

Faux Metal Coffee Table

If you love industrial style and want to do a DIY project, but don't know how to weld and solder, then this type of project is perfect for you! Maybe building isn't your thing? You could take a coffee table and wrap the top with the stainless steel film (make sure the tabletop you're wrapping is squared off because getting the film to lay flat on rounded corners would be really difficult).

Sara

Backyard Tiki Bar

I always wanted a place outdoors to entertain, even if it rains. This was a BIG project for me. I had no written plan, so a LOT of this was trial an error...this is my disclaimer :-) I am NOT a PRO

Leisa Hart

Sliding Barn Door Side Table.

Hi, I'm Miranda. I love farmhouse decor and barn doors a lot and since they are in such a big trend lately I wanted to try putting one on a table. I bought this little side table and I thought it would be perfect except I didn't like the size of the walls. I felt like it needed to be about 6 inches taller all the way around. So I embarked on the mission to get that done. These are the tools I used. (Always Wear Safety Glasses and Gloves If needed when working with powertools. )The tools:Circular saw nail gundrill Jig Saw with a metal blade.a metal drill bit in six 3/8speed squaretape measure

Miranda Archibald

Customize Your Room By Building Your Own Bed Frame

Best Of Hometalk

Solve Your Entry Dilemmas With an Easy Entryway Bench DIY

Best Of Hometalk

11 Budget-Friendly DIY Coffee Tables

Best Of Hometalk

20 DIY Vanity DIY Projects You Can Do Right Now

You can easily find your perfect new vanity look now, with these 20 DIY vanity projects that show just how versatile – in both style and size – a vanity can be.

Best Of Hometalk

Gorgeous Wood Countertops Anybody Can DIY

Best Of Hometalk

DIY Platform Beds Ideas

A DIY platform bed with storage is one of the best ways to maximize living space in a small bedroom, and you can create your own on the budget with these great ideas here!

Best Of Hometalk

6 Creative DIY Computer Desks

These six super creative DIY computer desks will get you inspired for your next DIY!

Best Of Hometalk

Faux Metal Coffee Table

Sara

Backyard Tiki Bar

I always wanted a place outdoors to entertain, even if it rains. This was a BIG project for me. I had no written plan, so a LOT of this was trial an error...this is my disclaimer :-) I am NOT a PRO

Leisa Hart

Sliding Barn Door Side Table.

Miranda Archibald

Exciting Furniture Building Videos

We present you with our collection of DIY furniture building tutorial videos. Enjoy.

How to Drill a Pocket Hole Without a Kreg Jig

Hometalk Skills

Farmhouse Bedroom Set- The Bed

We are digging this new farmhouse bedroom set! We made a beautiful bed and matching side tables. Happy us and happy customer. Here's how it came to be.

Chas

How to Build a Storage Unit in a Minute and a Half

Last year, I came up with how to build a bench in sixty seconds and I’ve always wanted to create another similar idea. So, without further ado, here it is. Yesterday, I showed you how to build a simple cubby dresser using four crates. Today, I am showing you how to add three stair treads and create an amazing storage unit. This storage unit can be used as many things. I plan to use it in my daughter’s room as a dresser. My daughter hates to put her clothes in drawers. I hope this is a solution that wI’ll both of us happy. I seriously wouldn’t mind one for myself. It would be great in a mud room using each crate for a child or an item. Such as one bin for hats, one for gloves and so on. Maybe a bin afor rain gear.

Stacy Davis

Floating Waterfall Coffee Table

I was inspired to make this after seeing a similar table on Pinterest, it features beautifully figured camphor laurel mitred at the corner with an acrylic base. square off your slab on one end with a circular saw, make sure to use a straight edge and not to cut too deep in one pass

Wesley inglis

Hometalkers' Favorite DIY Furniture Building Projects

We've collected the best furniture building projects for you right here. Enjoy.

Outdoor Privacy Bench

Please take a minute to click here to sign up for the Mother Daughter Projects weekly newsletter. You'll get notification about our new projects and what is up and coming.We started with a basic Ana White bench plan and modified it for our needs.

Mother Daughter Projects

End of Bed Bench

I had a large blanket chest at the end of our king-sized bed and wanted to change the look to a much smaller bench. I found a bench as my inspiration on Pinterest that I liked and showed it to my hubby to see if he could build something similar.

Cindy Hagemann

How to Build a Farmhouse Table and Bench (Yes, You Can Do It!)

This was my FIRST EVER project using a Kreg Jig. If the $100 price of a Kreg Jig is deterring you, did you know they sell a mini Jig for only $19? Building a table is easier than you think...

Sara

Give Your Kitchen Island A Stainless Steel Look

We needed a island in our kitchen and I wanted it to have a stainless steel top to match the rest of our appliances but stainless steel is not cheap. I had seen a post here, on Hometalk, that used EZ Faux Decor stainless steel film on a coffee table so I thought I'd give it a try for my kitchen island.

Alicia W

Boys bunk beds

I have 3 little boys that share a room. I still wanted a ton of floor space for them to play so this is what we came up with! There are 4 twin beds and 2 trundles, making it a total of 6 beds. It took my husband and I 3 days to complete this project. Here are some pictures of our construction process.

Nikki Grandy

Outdoor Privacy Bench

Mother Daughter Projects

End of Bed Bench

Cindy Hagemann

How to Build a Farmhouse Table and Bench (Yes, You Can Do It!)

This was my FIRST EVER project using a Kreg Jig. If the $100 price of a Kreg Jig is deterring you, did you know they sell a mini Jig for only $19? Building a table is easier than you think...

Sara

Give Your Kitchen Island A Stainless Steel Look

Alicia W

Boys bunk beds

Nikki Grandy

Popular Furniture Building Discussions

Want to know the popular discussions in the world of furniture build projects?

How to build a birdhouse?

/> Pat

How to get some Ideas for building a birdhouse

View discussion

I am looking for someone to build me a pergola

/> Arlette Twersky

I have a cement patio and want to have someone with experience build a pergola with a deck over the patio. I have a picture of just the one I would like that I found online. I have a couple of people that said they could do it, but I'm hesitating because they don't seem to have much experience. Can you find me someone near Bensalem PA who knows what they are doing? I plan to use the pergola as a succah.

I am looking for someone to build me a pergola

View discussion

How can I make a wine rack using a pallet?

/> Ashley

View discussion

How can I make a bed canopy that attaches to the wall?

/> Elaine

View discussion

New Furniture Building Projects

What are the new furniture building projects that Hometalkers are taking on? Read on.

Bookshelves for Children's Reading Nook

We are creating a closet reading nook in our daughter's playroom, and found a simple way to build bookshelves that are easy for her to reach.

Ellora at Creatively Southern

New Life For An Old Wooden Tractor Wagon

I stumbled on an old chest at a barn sale that I instantly fell in love with. When I returned the next day to pick up my chest, the seller asked me to take a look at something he knew I would like as I had expressed my love for barnwood at the sale.

Issaac @ Practicing ImPerfection

Repurposed Piano with many options for functionality

Before anyone goes crazy telling me I am crazy to do this to a piano, the soundboard was warped and the inner pieces were missing a LOT to be playable. As well, the veneer was destroyed from years of setting some sort of water containers on top. For those following my posts - THIS would be the piece that I demonstrated the * how to get veneer off* posting. Now for the fun - The progress shots! This piece is so stunning in person. Photos do it no justice. We did a photo shoot to show 3 possible ways to use this. And yes I know there is a VCR in it HAHA!!! Shhh.... look away - it's just to give an example as an entertainment unit! (which would look amazing in our house so it's going to be a toughy to sell this beauty!) All of the inner parts will also be repurposed into furnishings or art. Nothing in this project will be sent to the dump! Aside from the stripped veneer scraps! Visit us at http://www.facebook.com/gypsybarn for more repurposing fun!

Jasmin

Pallet Wine Rack

I've been collecting pallets for about a year now and had quite the stack out in the garage. It was about time I did something with all of them!

Becky W

How to Build a Portable Slide-on Railing Bar Top / Counter

I have seen the portable railing buffet counter tops (goodness that is a mouthful! What would you call this?) floating around Pinterest for some time and I have been itchin’ to build one. I went out to buy wood and came back home empty handed because wood is expensive and I wanted to make sure that this project was a keeper before I invested money in some pretty boards. So this is my Beta project or my rough draft. Cheap wood, cheap paint and had a total cash outlay of $5. The cheap spray paint was $3 and a $2 package of screws, those two things were the only out of pocket expenses that I incurred to make this project.

Stacy Davis