Books like Making furniture by Mark Ripley

A practical guide showcasing 30 internationally conceived designs that teach readers how to build unique, designer furniture from readily available materials.

A practical guide with 30 global designs, showing how to build stylish, designer-level furniture from common hardware store materials using straightforward, step‑by‑step methods.

This book contains 20 furniture projects designed by an expert woodworker. He calls them "heirlooms" because they resemble classic pieces that often are handed down through generations in a family, and because, if they are built with care and craftsmanship, may become heirlooms in your own family. Drawing on his long experience in wood-working and his intimate knowledge of furniture styles, Tom Jones has included in this book a remarkable variety of projects which range from simple to complex. Thera are English reproductions from the Queen Anne, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton periods, furniture derived from Early American, Shaker, and Federal designs, as well as contemporary pieces that will blend with modern decor. From the standpoint of function, the variety is also great: three desks, two clocks, a wall cabinet, a coffee table, a bookcase, a child's chair, a terrarium table- to cite only a few.

Comprehensive guide to designing and building living room furniture for amateur woodworkers.

What's inside "The Essential Woodworker?" I think it's a gold mine of traditional hand tool techniques. Assisted by more than 530 hand-drawn illustrations, plus dozens of photos, Wearing walks you through the process of becoming a hand-tool woodworker. He starts with sharpening and ends with dovetailed casework. To illustrate all of the basic principles, Wearing deftly guides you through building a few small projects. He starts, most ingeniously, with building a table, which teaches many of the core skills you need to build more advanced casework. He then works you through open casework, backs, plinths, doors and then drawers. He presents no shortcuts or cheats. All the the methods are "neat and workmanlike" and would stand up to the scrutiny of an 18th-century master joiner. But most of all, I think that Wearing can help you organize everything you know (and don't yet know) about handwork into a framework that makes sense and is the baseline for every skill you will acquire in the future.