Woodworking Plans for Furniture

When doing a quick search for woodworking plans for furniture on the Internet these days, you will get flooded with different companies offering endless plans to choose from. You can find anything offered in terms of woodworking plans for furniture - be it all sorts of table-styles, cabinets for kitchen, garage, or kids room, bedroom furniture, backyard- or deck furniture, in particular lawn chairs, desks, or even smaller pieces of furniture like mirrors or smaller bookcases.

It goes without saying that woodworking is one of the hobbies where you can create something very easy - say a desk-, or make the same kind of furniture (desk) extremely sophisticated and difficult to build. Think of all the different styles even a pretty straight forward piece of furniture like a desk can have; it could be anything like a captains writing desk, a roll up desk, a roll top desk, a storage desk, or a computer desk with hutch. Then, of course, think of all the different materials that could be used to actually make the desk; here again, some more affordable desk constructions are made of simple 2" plywood, or you could go more elegant with European beech, or some kind of Cherry executive desk variation.

My point here is that if you are trying to find some good woodworking plans for furniture simply by trying to e.g. get some good plans off the Internet, you will most likely give up after a few hours of frustrating search; unless you have absolutely no preference for any kind of style or material you want your furniture to be of, you will probably never find exactly what you envisioned when downloading single plans you find out there. Thats why I always recommend to go with one of the complete woodworking plans for furniture - software packages that are available these days.

The nice thing about them is that not only do you get several thousands of woodworking plans for furniture, as opposed to the smaller packages containing say a max. of 5 plans, or even only true single plans. That allows you to find exactly what you are looking for in terms of a certain woodworking projects, or even in terms of a certain design of a woodworking project; that way, you can match different pieces of self-made wooden furniture around your house, because they are based on the same or very similar woodworking plan styles.

Also, every time I used to look for some plans on the Internet, it seemed like the woodworking plans are kind of scattered all over the place; there is no real order as there are so many different companies offering them. On the other hand, the complete woodworking packages offer highly organized, searchable prints so you find immediately what you are looking for, while getting even more inspiration for additional projects as you are browsing through all the different projects in the package.

One last thing I really think gives the complete woodworking packages a huge advantage over the single woodworking plans is - well, it is the price. What I did to come up with some reasonable comparison for myself was to look back through all the woodworking projects I either actually finished last year, or at least got started with. So in both cases I would have needed a plan for it; last time I checked, single plans on the Internet go at around $10. - to $15.- on average, at least if we are talking woodworking plans for furniture. I counted 14 woodworking projects in total, each of them requiring a separate plan, so that would have been way over $100.- if I would have bought single plans for all projects; on the other hand, the complete package I used, was around $50.- in total, and I still have thousands and thousands of plans I have not even looked at from this package. In my mind that makes the decision between going with single plans, or going with a complete package, very easy.