20 Of Family Handyman’s Most Incredible DIY Projects

Polished Concrete Table Top

Working with concrete may not sound like a quick project, but you’ll surprise yourself with just how quickly this gorgeous concrete table-top  comes together. It’s an excellent starter project if you want to learn how to incorporate concrete into more of your DIY projects.

Wooden Swing

Don’t forget the kids when you’re building features for your backyard. This wooden disc swing is an easy winner; as long as you’ve got a suitable tree or other solid frame  you can install this and become the owners of the coolest backyard on your block.

Elegant Outdoor Table

Build this attractive, durable stone look-alike table in a day, using inexpensive concrete products available at many home centers. You simply mold and pour the top, then assemble the wooden legs. When sealed, it’s stain-resistant and can be used indoors or outside.

Greenhouse

While you’re updating your outdoor space, why not give yourself somewhere to up your gardening game. Building a greenhouse is a great way to expand the growing season for your garden, whether you want fruits and veggies or to supply your own floral studio.

Simple Folding Chair

This folding wooden lawn chair is the perfect project for a beginner. It boasts a simple design, with a carrying handle cutout in the back for easy portability and a neat interlocking look. The chair shown is cedar, but you could also use Cypress fir or pressure-treated wood.

How to Make an Adirondack Chair and Love Seat

This Adirondack chair and matching love seat are designed for outdoor comfort. It’s one of the wood projects designed for easy assembly, so that a novice can build them. And you can build them from inexpensive, durable wood that, once stained, looks beautiful.

Floating Bookshelves

These shelves are handsome, easy to build and inexpensive. And they’re strong even though they have no visible supports. They appear to float on the wall, no clunky hardware or brackets. We made them from only two parts—half of a hollow core door and a 2×4.

Build a Built-in Bookcase

Sometimes simple IKEA hacks are the easiest DIY projects. This one has no complex wood joints and no tricky techniques. You simply glue, screw and nail the parts together. Learn how to use inexpensive materials like birch plywood and standard trim to build this classic, built-in wooden bookcase.

Bookcase Built by Two

Build this simple pine bookshelf in one day with a miter saw, biscuits—and a young helper. It’s a great way to teach your kids about woodworking and safe tool use. If your children have shown an interest in DIY projects, this is the perfect entry point.

Entryway Shelves

Entryway shelves can help corral shoes, bags, and other miscellaneous items that get shed when you and your family members come inside after a long day. This project can be easily customized to solve whatever your specific storage needs are; it’s quite versatile.

Saturday Morning Shelf

This versatile cherry shelf goes together in a few hours, and with a quick-drying finish you can have it on the wall in a day. The extra-wide top makes it perfect for books, antiques and collectibles. Build it before lunch—spray on the finish after dinner.

Install a Wall-Bed-Bookcase Combo

A wall-bed combination or drop-down bed helps save a lot of room in a tight basement, so consider installing this DIY Murphy bed and bookcase. While a Murphy bed can be super simple- some are just an upright box that contains a folddown bed-  this is a deluxe version that includes ample storage.

Classic Simple Bookcase

Craftsman-style furniture designs are still popular today, and with modern tools you can build a classic bookcase like this one from the Stickley catalog in a weekend. It’s a step above beginner. While it’s not a project to take on alone if you’ve never done woodworking before, if you’ve done even one or two other DIY projects under your belt you should be able to handle it with ease.

Build a Showcase Wall

This built-in entertainment center mixes architectural simplicity with a pop of color to make it stand out. This showstopper of a bookcase is an intermediate level project, but if you’re confident in your skills it’s well worth the time and work it takes.

Build a Traditional Bookshelf

Need a great-looking bookshelf with classic lines by tomorrow? Using clever shortcuts and standard materials, you can build a bookshelf like this in a day. It’s a great option if you’re looking for simple DIY projects you can do quickly. You can even build multiple of these bookcases to give your living room or den the ability to house your entire library.

Floor-to-Ceiling Bookcase

A floor-to-ceiling bookcase shows off a small room’s height while adding a lot of space-saving vertical storage. This Greek Revival-style wood bookcase is much easier to build that it looks. It’s the kind of woodworking project you can use to impress your friends and family.

Custom Box Shelves

Organize the clutter. These simple, but handsome, box shelves will store books, hats, shoes, and all kinds of knick-knacks. You can even sit on them!

Record Display Case

If you’ve got a record collection that you want to show off, why not build a display case for them? This wooden crate is designed to hold several records and is complete with a display sleeve on front so you can display your most prized album.

Make Your Own Built-In Shelves

Use this project for built-in shelves to unlock hidden storage space between the studs in your walls. Install a single, open box of shelves, or install two boxes and add a set of glass doors to make a cabinet. Either way you’ll have given yourself extra storage space.

DIY Rustic Barn Door and Hardware

Rustic barn doors have become popular recently and we’ve got the plans to create your own rustic barn door. Getting that distressed look is one of those DIY home projects that can be done without spending a lot of money and still looks great.

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