I would like to look through a *free* catalog of woodworking plans
(just pictures of the finished work), pick the plan I like, then order that plan. Do such catalogs exist? I couldn't find any catalogs using Google.

I don't want to dish out cash for books of plans when I don't even know if they have anything I want to build.

-Start here.

http://the3house.com/plans/menus/top_nav1.htm

-I found links to a number of plans sites from http://absolutelyfreeplans.com

-http://www.woodprojects.com/search/search.htm Check out this link. I did a quick search for "mission table" and came up with at lease one mission dinning room set.