Awesome design and fantastic idea. Dogs are great creatures. By nature they are den animals and like small spaces like this, our Milli used her crate to escape when it was storming or fireworks were going off outside RIP Milli girl.
That's one really happy pup great idea to even add a little table to your living room as well. Hope everyone is safe and healthy and keep up the great videos
Love the concept with the door, hmmm maybe an idea for a art piece covering a tv on the wall same sliding with a mirror or painting or an abstract art . Keep building I am a big fan
Lovely video thank you Shara, and Lucy is such a love... and she is very lucky to have you as a mom... just so nervous about your hoodie ties getting caught in the saw or drill press or wherever... otherwise all two thumbs up :) XX
You are so creative!! I’ve been often looked for prettier dog crates but they are so expensive. This is beautiful and I can totally make this! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity!!
Thank you!! GSPs are so pretty and super smart!! Our Lucy, though, is actually a mutt. We think she has some pointer in her, but also some boxer and lab. We aren’t really sure 😂 but she showed up at the old factory unused to work at and long story short, I brought her home.
Lots of ingenuity with this design. Nicely done. My dog would escape without a bottom, but it seems like that could be easily added. You mentioned adding a coat of poly. I suggest shellac instead. Not so hazardous if the dog decides to chew on her crate, and also easy to refresh she happens to scratch or gnaw on any of the spindles.
I came across your video cuz I'm wanting to build a wooden crate for my 3 dogs in a Big Sky Montana Camper. I was having trouble coming up with idea that could contain the 3 of them so I won't have to buy 2 more wire kennels. One is mama and 2 of her babies. But they need their own space. Thanks for the inspirations. I'm sure I'll come up with something now.
Brilliant video. I'm amazed how you don't need to clamp pieces when screwing in the pocket hole screws. If I didn't clamp the 2 pieces together they wouldn't end up flush. Also a piece of advice, rather than measuring the gaps each time a spacer block would speed things up and ensure better accuracy.
Nice build. Very creative. I think I would have put the drawer slides on the sides instead of the top so they could be more traditionally carrying the weight of the sliding component.
I really love the concept, I’m not sure if supplies in your area (greenish/purple poplar, oak, maple, live edge of any specie, etc.) have become increasingly costly and/or limited like in my area?... I always enjoy when builders rip their 2x2s out of regular 2x4s, but for me with such a necessary (fur baby) statement piece smack dab in your living room, it needed more than everyday lumber. Awe, imagine 2x2s from slathering green poplar and/or two kinds of species together to create your slats... I think back to “Custom 3x3” when she built her stunning charity boxes with an assortment of leftover, scrap wood... Hot Damn! I imagine your slats with a multi (Natural) assortment of colors! Lol, I wish you’d have implemented your hard-earned skill sets for joinery (not saying I’m against pocket holes as it’d work with the first mentioned) with half laps, finger/box joints, and yeah mitered edges for the ply/slide-out top would’ve been far more appealing than the butt joints. It just hit me as I’m responding to your video, how slick would it look to apply some “Michael Alm” inspired plywood patterns (diamond, chevron, checker, etc.) to that top instead of as is? Pretty dang edgy plus a water fall effect... Mind Blown 🤯😎 Anyways, I know you work very hard and have limited time and thanks to the Covid19 ppl keep “sharing”, you have limits to materials and more on your mind than is fair... regardless what I’d change for myself, your creation is flat out unique, useful and in many ways far superior to the sad hinged door method others often use. Hope you and your family are staying well and living the best version of “the good life” as possible ;)
Those are some great ideas. However, I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on a dog crate by using really nice wood and I was a little afraid she might chew on it at some point. So far so good, but I’d hate to spend a lot of time and money making it for it to have teeth marks in it later. Also, personally I like pine on some things. I picked out some boards with character for this. Thanks for the suggestions. Maybe I’ll incorporate cooler lumber in a future project 👍
Muy buena idea y elegante. Una sola pega por favor nunca jamas cuando uses maquinas como sierra cepillos y demas uses manga larga es muy peligroso pero muchisimo. Mucho animo y a seguir con esos buenos proyectos
Hey Shara. You are doing great. I would like to see you wearing a respirator when using your table saw and miter saw, etc. Wood dust can be nasty short term and cause cancer long term.
Looks great! I recently stumbled onto your channel and really enjoy the furniture you make as I'm just getting into this myself. I tried searching your site but couldn't find anything on how you select your plywood for each project and where you buy it. Do you have anything on that topic already?
Hi! Thank you! People ask me this all the time. I don’t have a specific post about it, but I’ve answered it in the FAQ at the end of this post: www.woodshopdiaries.com/cut-down-plywood-sheets-with-circular-saw/
I really love this! I will be building a variation of this model for my 1984 Winnebago Lesharo! Quick question, what software or program did you use to get the diagram pictures for the plans?
Love this project! you did an amazing job and i am sure your dog loves it too. Wondering if you could share what the cost of this project is? If you had to do it again, would you change anything about the design?
Thanks! The materials list is in the blog post I linked for the plans. Since prices of material vary by location, it’s best to check the materials list and check your local store to find out how much it would cost you where you are. In lumber where I live, I’d estimate about $80. But I had half a sheet of plywood leftover. And I wouldn’t change anything 👍
That's a neat crate. Lucy is a beautiful girl. We have three in metal crates now in the living room. Oh, did you have any issues with stock lumber twisting while running through the saw?
Thank you! I try to pick out the straightest 2x4s j can to help avoid any issues ripping my 2x2s. Occasionally I’ll have some problems, but starting with the straight 2x4s helps a lot 👍
Hi. For us who are not familiar of your wood sizes, will it be possible to give the sizes in metric as well please. If we convert 2x4 to metric it's 51mmx102mm whereas looking at the size of your timber it does not look like the size I quoted. Thanks
Hi! I’m sorry, I create my plans using standard lumber sizes. I cut 2x2s from 2x4s. I think the measurements you have here are for a 2x4. I basically cut those in half to make square posts
She’s a mutt. I brought her home after someone dropped her off at the factory I used to work at. We think she’s part German shorthair and has some boxer too. But we aren’t sure.
Yes, I understand that. But our dog hasn’t chewed on anything in the house for the three years we’ve had her. And so far she hasn’t attempted to chew this either. I’m not too concerned with our dog
Well, You know your own dog. My comment was more for other people who might see this and decide they want to build one based on the aesthetics, especially how the door opens is really cool, but they might not think of the dog being able to escape. Especially for someone who leaves the house for 8hrs to go to work.
Can u build me one for a XL dog how much I'm very poor and the pandemic didn't help but i like your style and I'm sure de o ge would appreciate a bad pad
I build this over a weekend, I used a chocolate stain on the top and a provincial stain for the bars. Very happy, thanks for the great idea. Thumbs up
So glad to hear it! I bet that color combo looks awesome!
I love the look of this! I definitely want to make a different crate option for our dog than her metal one. The slats are really great!
Love this - made one for our adopted dog and used the top as a ‘roof top deck’ for the cats. Everyone is super happy - wonderful design!!!
Awesome!! Glad the animals are enjoying it 👍
Lucy is so adorable 🐶💓
Thank you!! We are proud of her 💕💕
Awesome design and fantastic idea. Dogs are great creatures. By nature they are den animals and like small spaces like this, our Milli used her crate to escape when it was storming or fireworks were going off outside RIP Milli girl.
Bobby Sharp's Made by Hand Shop thanks so much! I’m so sorry about your Milli. Dogs become part of the family and are hard to lose.
That's one really happy pup great idea to even add a little table to your living room as well. Hope everyone is safe and healthy and keep up the great videos
Thank you so much! Yes we are both loving the design 😍
I really love your style of modern builds. Lucy Lu is a beautiful dog.
Thank you! She’s spoiled rotten 💕🐶
Very nice design and practical use of space!
Tim Dyer thank you! We both love it!
I appreciate that you stuff is well designed. I also appreciate your building style, it's very approachable
I try to keep things simple. No sense in over complicating 👍
Shara, You're so kind and kindness is treasure
Thank you!
Love the concept with the door, hmmm maybe an idea for a art piece covering a tv on the wall same sliding with a mirror or painting or an abstract art . Keep building I am a big fan
c l that would be a really cool idea for a tv cover!
Lovely video thank you Shara, and Lucy is such a love... and she is very lucky to have you as a mom... just so nervous about your hoodie ties getting caught in the saw or drill press or wherever... otherwise all two thumbs up :) XX
You are so creative!! I’ve been often looked for prettier dog crates but they are so expensive. This is beautiful and I can totally make this! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity!!
Yay! I’m so glad you found this helpful! It’s definitely a pretty basic build!
I need two of these in my house! Thank you!
Yay! My dog LOVES hers
Beautifully made. Awesome work.
Fred G thanks so much!
Shara Woodshop Diaries you are so welcome. You and Tamar should collaborate between both of your brains would do amazing magical work.
Brilliant idea. Love your Pointer...she’s beautiful. We have 4 German Shorthair Pointers.
Thank you!! GSPs are so pretty and super smart!! Our Lucy, though, is actually a mutt. We think she has some pointer in her, but also some boxer and lab. We aren’t really sure 😂 but she showed up at the old factory unused to work at and long story short, I brought her home.
Lots of ingenuity with this design. Nicely done. My dog would escape without a bottom, but it seems like that could be easily added. You mentioned adding a coat of poly. I suggest shellac instead. Not so hazardous if the dog decides to chew on her crate, and also easy to refresh she happens to scratch or gnaw on any of the spindles.
Thank you for the tip! 👍
I came across your video cuz I'm wanting to build a wooden crate for my 3 dogs in a Big Sky Montana Camper. I was having trouble coming up with idea that could contain the 3 of them so I won't have to buy 2 more wire kennels. One is mama and 2 of her babies. But they need their own space. Thanks for the inspirations. I'm sure I'll come up with something now.
So glad you enjoyed this project. Hopefully it helped give you some ideas :) Happy building!
YES, MAKE INNOVATIVE THINGS like that👁️
Thank you!
Shara, your ingenuity is amazing! 😁 if I had a good spot for this I would definitely build this for my pup. She loves her caves.
Michael Schnoblen thanks so much! Pups are so funny how they like their space 💕🐶
Brilliant video. I'm amazed how you don't need to clamp pieces when screwing in the pocket hole screws. If I didn't clamp the 2 pieces together they wouldn't end up flush. Also a piece of advice, rather than measuring the gaps each time a spacer block would speed things up and ensure better accuracy.
Thank you! I’ve had lots of practice holding pieces to get them lined up right when screwing pocket holes haha
I love this! We have been looking to build a nice dog crate for our living room!
Thank you! I hope this inspired you!
What a clever idea Shara---
TheBeerbelly007 thank you so much!!
Love this design!
Thank you!
Lucy is adorable, thanks for your video and the nice idea!
I'm from Mexico, I just found your channel and it's amazing I love your projects
Thank you!
Simple but perfect!
Thank you!
Beautiful design. Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for watching!
What a great build! Love that LULU!!!! Stay stay and well!! :)
Thank you!! She’s rotten 💕 you stay safe and healthy as well!
Outstanding design! Love it! I’m building one of these. Thank you for the inspiration.
Awesome!! Happy building!
Nice build. Very creative. I think I would have put the drawer slides on the sides instead of the top so they could be more traditionally carrying the weight of the sliding component.
Yes, I had planned to, but because the slats are so close, there was no way to screw the slides between the slats with such small clearance 👍
I need to build 2 of these! Lol
Very nice!
Thanks for the video
Thank you! Happy building!
Your best idea yet!
Thanks so much!
Très joli bravo et le chien à l'air content à bientôt salut Jeannot 🛠😉
Really beautiful and practical design. ;)
Thank you!
Práctico y decorativo
Muy ingenioso!!!
Vicente Vercher thank you!
Clever! Really love this
Thank you!!
Love this. Sarah.
Thank you!
Very wonderful❤️
はきだめチャンネル thank you so much!
Nice !!! very nice indeed!
Thanks so much! Our dog loves hanging out in here
Just found your channel via this video , brilliant idea and great channel , new subscriber from Ireland. ;o)
Thank you for following along!
I really love the concept, I’m not sure if supplies in your area (greenish/purple poplar, oak, maple, live edge of any specie, etc.) have become increasingly costly and/or limited like in my area?... I always enjoy when builders rip their 2x2s out of regular 2x4s, but for me with such a necessary (fur baby) statement piece smack dab in your living room, it needed more than everyday lumber. Awe, imagine 2x2s from slathering green poplar and/or two kinds of species together to create your slats... I think back to “Custom 3x3” when she built her stunning charity boxes with an assortment of leftover, scrap wood... Hot Damn! I imagine your slats with a multi (Natural) assortment of colors! Lol, I wish you’d have implemented your hard-earned skill sets for joinery (not saying I’m against pocket holes as it’d work with the first mentioned) with half laps, finger/box joints, and yeah mitered edges for the ply/slide-out top would’ve been far more appealing than the butt joints. It just hit me as I’m responding to your video, how slick would it look to apply some “Michael Alm” inspired plywood patterns (diamond, chevron, checker, etc.) to that top instead of as is? Pretty dang edgy plus a water fall effect... Mind Blown 🤯😎 Anyways, I know you work very hard and have limited time and thanks to the Covid19 ppl keep “sharing”, you have limits to materials and more on your mind than is fair... regardless what I’d change for myself, your creation is flat out unique, useful and in many ways far superior to the sad hinged door method others often use. Hope you and your family are staying well and living the best version of “the good life” as possible ;)
Those are some great ideas. However, I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on a dog crate by using really nice wood and I was a little afraid she might chew on it at some point. So far so good, but I’d hate to spend a lot of time and money making it for it to have teeth marks in it later. Also, personally I like pine on some things. I picked out some boards with character for this. Thanks for the suggestions. Maybe I’ll incorporate cooler lumber in a future project 👍
Muy buena idea y elegante. Una sola pega por favor nunca jamas cuando uses maquinas como sierra cepillos y demas uses manga larga es muy peligroso pero muchisimo.
Mucho animo y a seguir con esos buenos proyectos
Спасибо большое, очень интересное решение...
Ilham Kazimov thank you!
Freaking cool idea
Thank you!
와우~ 아이디어 정말 좋네요~ ^^ That's nice idea
Thank you!
Brilliant!
Hey Shara. You are doing great. I would like to see you wearing a respirator when using your table saw and miter saw, etc. Wood dust can be nasty short term and cause cancer long term.
Thank you!
simplemente genial gracias eres muy creativa me encanta
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Looks great! I recently stumbled onto your channel and really enjoy the furniture you make as I'm just getting into this myself.
I tried searching your site but couldn't find anything on how you select your plywood for each project and where you buy it. Do you have anything on that topic already?
Hi! Thank you! People ask me this all the time. I don’t have a specific post about it, but I’ve answered it in the FAQ at the end of this post:
www.woodshopdiaries.com/cut-down-plywood-sheets-with-circular-saw/
I really love this! I will be building a variation of this model for my 1984 Winnebago Lesharo! Quick question, what software or program did you use to get the diagram pictures for the plans?
That’s awesome! I usually rough sketch the project, build it, then go back and draw it in sketchup after the fact to make build plans 👍
Love this project! you did an amazing job and i am sure your dog loves it too. Wondering if you could share what the cost of this project is? If you had to do it again, would you change anything about the design?
Thanks! The materials list is in the blog post I linked for the plans. Since prices of material vary by location, it’s best to check the materials list and check your local store to find out how much it would cost you where you are. In lumber where I live, I’d estimate about $80. But I had half a sheet of plywood leftover. And I wouldn’t change anything 👍
@@WoodshopDiaries Your website is amazing and very detailed. Thank you so much.
That's a neat crate. Lucy is a beautiful girl. We have three in metal crates now in the living room. Oh, did you have any issues with stock lumber twisting while running through the saw?
Thank you! I try to pick out the straightest 2x4s j can to help avoid any issues ripping my 2x2s. Occasionally I’ll have some problems, but starting with the straight 2x4s helps a lot 👍
Please make video in Hindi
Are the slates on the top longer than the sides? If so how long?
Hi! Dimensions are found in the plans here: www.woodshopdiaries.com/dog-crate-with-sliding-door/
Hi. For us who are not familiar of your wood sizes, will it be possible to give the sizes in metric as well please. If we convert 2x4 to metric it's 51mmx102mm whereas looking at the size of your timber it does not look like the size I quoted. Thanks
Hi! I’m sorry, I create my plans using standard lumber sizes. I cut 2x2s from 2x4s. I think the measurements you have here are for a 2x4. I basically cut those in half to make square posts
@@WoodshopDiaries Thanks. But what is the size of your 2x4 in mm.
BOBBY it’s 1 1/2” x 3 1/2”. You can convert to metric. I don’t know what the math is on that
@@WoodshopDiaries Thank You. Much Appreciated.
@@WoodshopDiaries Thank You. Much Appreciated.
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CAN you pléiade sent me a list of what we need of wood?
www.woodshopdiaries.com/dog-crate-with-sliding-door/
What breed is Lucy?
She’s a mutt. I brought her home after someone dropped her off at the factory I used to work at. We think she’s part German shorthair and has some boxer too. But we aren’t sure.
!;-)
Is that little dab of glue even doing anything?
I’d like to think so 👍
Be careful. There's a reason dog crates are made out of metal. Many breeds would be happy to turn that crate into wood chips in short order.
Yes, I understand that. But our dog hasn’t chewed on anything in the house for the three years we’ve had her. And so far she hasn’t attempted to chew this either. I’m not too concerned with our dog
Well, You know your own dog. My comment was more for other people who might see this and decide they want to build one based on the aesthetics, especially how the door opens is really cool, but they might not think of the dog being able to escape. Especially for someone who leaves the house for 8hrs to go to work.
Can u build me one for a XL dog how much I'm very poor and the pandemic didn't help but i like your style and I'm sure de o ge would appreciate a bad pad
So beautiful you and your work. I love you ❤.will you marry me 💍
YES, MAKE INNOVATIVE THINGS like that👁️