Here are a few sketches offered as suggestions. You can change any of them to suit your fancy or your skills. No really difficult or elaborate techniques are needed to build any of the things. No dimensions are given, as you will often want to make a piece to fit a certain space. Check table and desk heights with dimensions of actual furniture. Make sure just how high you want a coffee table or an end table before you start to make it. Some people make an actual size pattern from wrapping paper, in order to make sure of the exact amount of floor space it will occupy-and that's not a bad idea. The same paper pattern try-out can also be used if you want to see in advance just how much wall-space a cabinet or set of shelves will take. As a final bit of comprehensive advice: the best way to achieve any of the simple pieces in this book is to get to work and make it. It's fun to build things.