Plans for a neighborhood book-sharing box with a front you can swap. Build the box once, then change its face with six screws.
Get the plans firstOne email when the plans are ready. Nothing else.
The box is the hard part, so you only build it once. The front is the fun part, so it comes off.
A weatherproof cabinet with a shelf, a roof and a post. Every face fits it.
Start with the Round-Door Cottage. More faces follow, each one a single front panel.
New season, new story, new reader on the block. Unscrew the old face and put up the next one.
Every set of plans includes both. Use whichever fits your garage.
You need a saw and a drill.
You need a drill and a screwdriver.
Plans arrive this winter for $19.
Get the plans first
A round plank door, a timber beam, a little brick corner and a mossy sill. It is the face of the original box, redrawn so anyone can cut it.
The door opens on a real hinge. The whole panel lifts off when you want something new.
I built my first one under a spruce in Racine, with a round green door and a brick corner, and the neighbors have kept it full of books ever since. Now I'm building one for my mom, and halfway through I noticed the box was the same job both times. Only the front was different. So I designed the box once and made the front come off, so you can build one for your street and change it whenever you like.