I don't usually do any flatwork, but the little old lady I lease my building from is a fanatical birdwatcher and the other day I noticed that her bluebird houses are falling apart, so I hit the WEB to find bluebird house plans.

The best plan I found was lacking a few of the dimensions, so I built this house tonight to work out the angle cuts and a couple of other dimensions. It is made from rough cut cedar from the big orange store... that stuff was the pits. There wasn't a single board in the store that wasn't badly split, cupped, or both, but that's another story I guess.

 

 

Nice! Especially nice of you to build it for the landlady. 

How did she like it?

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

I like it. A little bigger hole and it could be an owl box too! Yes, how did the lady like it?

These project like this, spur of the moment, are fun to me. You can pretty much with reckless abandon and an image in your head, just go to cutting and screwing and gluing, a great stress reducer.

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

John... funny you mention the size of this house and owls. This thing is twice the size of the boxes she has now, but it is a design specific to eastern bluebirds and a couple of other smaller sized birds (I'm not into birds so I forget), but we have a lot of owls around here and I had the same exact thought.

 

I forgot to get and put a latch on the top to hold it shut, so I haven't given it to her yet. I'll pick up some small screen door safety latches this evening after work and I'm going to let my 7 year old daughter take it to her. There are baby bluebirds in the houses she has now so it'll be a while before we can make the swap.