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Joke of the morning! "How many Nobel Prize-winning physicists does it take to change a light bulb?" "Three." The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
— Chuck Pearson (@ShorterPearson) October 7, 2014
DIY Sandbox
Built the kids a sandbox using 2"x12" boards and a single sheet of 3/4" plywood cut in half. Painted with 2 coats of exterior primer and 2 coats of exterior paint. Put the lid on hinges and used some rope to make a handle. The lid will keep animals and rain out. I didn't want the entire thing sitting on the ground for water/rain, so I used a 4x4 pretreated post to make legs, with one in the middle for support. The final decisions are 4' x 4', which is 1 sheet of plywood cut in half to save costs. Took about 16 bags of 50lb. Play Sand from Lowes.
Library Shelves
At the bottom of our stairs, there is a little nook with a cutout that we didn’t know what to do with. We decided to make this area a library and we wanted built-in shelves. Here’s the process I used when building them. I decided to put shelf holes only above and below each shelf, so you can move each shelf about 1.5” up or down from the middle position. I did not run shelf holes from the bottom all the way to the top because it degrades the look a bit and since this is a library, we wanted the flexibly to move the shelves a little, but wanted to keep it classy. We noticed Pottery Barn does the same thing on some of their furniture ;)
Mudroom Lockers
We enter and leave through our 3 car garage (2 spots are tandem). The door to the house is by the fridge and that wall was pretty much unused. I built lockers as well as an attached shelving unit so that we could pop the 3 kids there when we are coming and going and we can get them dressed. Granted, we don't get snow in southern California, but we do have tons of sand, flops, beach towels, and hats that we need a place for ;)
Dress Up Tower
Pottery Barn kids used to sell one for a couple hundred dollars, but it wasn't pink with a flowery design on the inside :) For my daughter's 4th birthday I made her one using Ana White's plans. The left side has a mirror and the right side has 6 fancy clear acrylic (look like glass) knobs from Lowes. I used contact paper on the inside and was easy to work with and hasn't peeled off at all.
The plans are listed on ana-white.com.
Grocery Stand
Kids grocery stand for my daughter. Created from Pine. Put wheels on one side so it can be easily moved. Plastic bins are Velcroed down so they don't move unless you want them to and the Tips bin is screwed in. There are hooks for shopping bags and the red store sign is screwed in. The stand is "kid-friendly" :)