For Christmas Cliff got his very own Workbench! I scoured the Internet for workbenches to buy, but they were either too expensive or cheaply made or just plain ugly. So on December 22nd, I decided that we Ross would build him one! I gathered a bunch of different ideas from different places then Ross and I sat down talked about what we liked, got to work and ended up with this:
Here is where we began. Once we finalized our plan, Ross went outside and started building the workbench:
I started painting the sign to go on Cliff’s Workbench:
It was cold outside so Ross bought the workbench in the kitchen so we could paint it. We wanted the top and the bottom shelf to stay wood, so we taped it off with painter’s tape and painted the workbench red (I got a gallon of the paint for $5 at Lowe’s in the mismatched section – don’t you just love it when that happens?!).
This is what we ended up with:
Of course Cliff needs all of his Tractors and Dump trucks to haul all of his materials:
Cliff’s Workshop has also been such an awesome tool to use for Therapy! He will stand at it by himself and “build” things just like daddy without holding on!
This turned out to be one of my favorite things in our playroom!
That is great. I need to make one for my grandson. Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh my gosh! You and your hubby are amazing. First the kitchen and now this?! Cliff and Harper are so lucky! I just emailed a link of this post to my hubby and told him he has a project to get started on!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi, I'm your newest follower from Boost My Blog blog hop, Looking forward to following you! Isn't it great to have a handy hubby, that bench is so much better than anything you could buy! Great job!!
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Hi, I'm your newest follower. This work bench is so cute!! I love the sign. Thank you for sharing. I'm throwing my first link party Monday. It would be great if you could stop by and add your project. http://diyhshp.blogspot.com/
hubby has a work shop as well but not as good looking as this one now this looks rather sharp
so darn cute! I love it. Stop by sometime domesticdeadline.blogspot.com
How cute! It looks amazing!
Thanks for linking up to Making It With Allie! I can't wait to see what you have for next week!
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This is amazing, I'm going to have to show my other half and convice him to make one for our boys! Great work
Awesome job. What a keepsake!
Awesome! Love it. It would be great for you to submit this to the M&T Spotlight – http://www.makeandtakes.com/spotlight
This is so cute! Great job!
Holy cow! That's AWESOME! I would LOVE to make one of these for my little guy. Will you put up your plans/parts list?
this is great! my little guy loves to play with daddy's tools and would love one of these.
WOW! That is awesome-great job! My son would love that too!
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Erin
I love this! Super cute.
A labour of love!
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Oh, that is awesome! Wish I would've done this for my boys when they were younger! Thanks for linking up!
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My son would LOVE this! So cute!
This is adorable. I think I will convince my DH we need to make one for my son.
Oh my gosh! This is the cutest work bench EVER! Great job! Hope you will share with my Pink Hippo Party @ http://pinkapotamus.blogspot.com/2011/02/pink-hippo-party-17.html
OMG…this is so cute. My mom just did something similar for my kids only in the form of a kitchen. We just didn't like anyting we found for sale. This is awesome!!
Sooo cute! I love this idea! Thanks for sharing:)
This is fantastic! I featured it on Hoo's got talent! Thanks for linking up to the party!
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My Husband has a new job on the TO DO list! Love this!
That is so great! I never thought of trying to build our own for my son. ha ha.. this is awesome!
I'd love to have you share this at my For the Kids Friday Link Party, going on now at SunScholars. Come join in on the fun!
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