Can I sell furniture built from these plans?
UPDATED 2026-11
This is the question that decides whether a plan is a hobby purchase or a business tool, so it deserves a straight answer rather than a paragraph of legal fog.
What the licence covers
- Unlimited builds. One purchase, as many cabinets, crates or racks as you want to make.
- Commercial sale of the finished piece. Market stalls, Etsy, craft fairs, client commissions — all fine.
- Modifications for a client. Change the height, add a drawer bay, paint it. The piece is yours.
- Photographing and selling the result with your own photos.
What it does not cover
- Redistributing the files — emailing the ZIP, uploading it to a drive, posting it in a group.
- Reselling the plan, as-is or redrawn, including "my version" of the same sheet.
- Teaching a paid class from the drawing set. You can teach the technique; the files stay with the buyer.
- Claiming authorship of the design. Build it, sell it, but do not register the drawing as your own.
Attribution
Not required. If you do mention where the plan came from, a link helps other makers find it and costs you nothing.
Two people, two copies
If two people in the same shop build from the drawings — a partner, an employee, a co-op — each needs their own copy. It is a small shop publishing these; one purchase per maker is what keeps new sheets coming.
Compliance and safety are yours
The plans describe geometry and assembly, not certification. If you sell a piece you are the manufacturer: it has to be safe for its stated use, appropriate for its environment, and compliant with whatever applies where you sell it. Shop storage in a garage is a different risk profile from a child's furniture, and a wall cabinet in a rental is different again. Where a plan gives a load or a span, treat it as a design intent, not a rating.
Keep the download
Your download link stays live and the email is the receipt. If a file is lost or corrupted, re-issue is free within 7 days — details in the refund policy.
One honest limit
These are plywood shop-furniture plans. They are drawn to be built accurately by one person with hand tools and a router, and they are checked in CAD rather than cut on every machine. That is the trade: you get a real drawing set for the price of a coffee, and you take responsibility for the last millimetre.
If you are planning a production run, tell us what you are building — we would rather answer three questions up front than have you discover a conflict at glue-up.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Two more that usually follow.
What exactly is in the download?
One ZIP: a 6–9 page PDF drawing set, cut list, bill of materials, nesting map, a DXF and an SVG per part, the assembly order and a CNC notes file. The full file list is here.
Do the plans work in metric stock?
Yes. Every sheet prints inches first with millimetres in parentheses, and every dado is specified to be sized off the measured thickness of your sheet. How to handle 17.5 mm stock.
THE PLANS
Ten sheets, one system.
CUT LIST · BOM · NESTING MAP · DXF + SVG · INCH + MM