Here is another wooden birdhouse that I like to make. This birdhouse is a little more complicated than your average square bird house because of the angles that need to be cut. First I cut all the wooden pieces that I need to assemble the birdhouse. These were all cut from a 8 inch by [...]

I started construction of the purple martin house with some one by eight cedar wood. I cut and nailed, I used my air nail gun, the wood into a square column that would fit loose around a 4 by 4 post.  The column will be used to support the house and be the core of [...]

I had a couple extra sheets of plywood in my garage that I was looking to do something with and decided to start a Purple Martin House. The first step was to find some purple martin plans. For this task I went online and searched Google to come up with a list of plans to [...]

I’m asked all the time where my birdhouse plans and ideas come from so I decided to make a list. Here are the best 5 places that I know on the web to find basic birdhouse plans – this is just my opinion of course. So here it goes! The U.S. Geological Survey is one [...]

Photo by Moonlightbulb Bird House Hole Sizes and Dimensions I’ve put together this handy list of bird house dimensions. It’s a combination of several different books and internet lists that I have collected over time. When building bird houses the most important dimensions are the hole size, hole height above the floor of the birdhouse, [...]

Blue Bird House The blue bird house was a project for my mother.  She wanted another birdhouse when she moved into her new home.  That gave me an the idea.  Bluebirds are slowly disappearing from our backyards.  As we clear the land for expansion we remove the trees where the blue birds built their homes. [...]