The other day a local hot tub company sent out a flyer to drum up some business from all of the people they have in their computer. I was one of them. The one thing they were offering was a  pair of hot tub steps at a decent prices and we really need them as we have almost killed ourselves getting out a few times. So we ordered them and I just put them together the other day

The bottom line, I could have saved myself a pile of money grabbing some plans or even a picture of one and building them from scratch. If you have the right tools at home why send out for somebody else to do your work for you. Why pay more when you don't have to and you get the satisfaction of completing something on your own. You have to search out prices of things and see if there is a real savings or not but things like bookshelves, speakershelves, cabinets and workbenches you can probably get enough information to do on your own. That is, if you aren't looking for anything special or fancy. Then you will  have to send out. And if you do, research your prices, warrenties and shipping charges and try to save money.