Build a Custom Banquette Corner Bench
Free up area in your kitchen and add seating with a personalized banquette corner bench that you can build to in shape your area. It can even add storage if you will need that!
Other fantastic kitchen strategies that are a fantastic addition to this banquette corner bench: a rustic bench, add a designed-in breakfast bar, or add a fake brick backsplash.
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Make a Personalized Corner Banquette Bench
by Chelsea the Pinterior Designer
We have a much larger kitchen, which I’m not complaining about, there’s just a great deal of open area and our hand-me-down desk was looking a tiny lonely. I came up with the genius strategy to build our own banquette to in shape into our area perfectly.
We went to Lowe’s to acquire our materials. We weren’t a hundred% sure what all we necessary, but made the decision we’d just hold looking until we figured the challenge out. I think which is the top secret to this entire Diy detail. We’ve recognized that we’re not authorities and that we will most probably run into problems together the way. Keeping that standpoint in brain allows us accept the fact that we will mess up and our projects won’t often feel perfect at initially, but not to give up. We still left Lowe’s with a auto full of materials
Record of materials and equipment:
Materials:
- two sheets of plywood (we experienced Lowe’s rip the boards in half so we could in shape it in the auto)
- 1 sheet of veneer plywood to use for the entrance of the bench
- two – 1 x ten x 8 boards (for the prime of the bench)
- ten – two x 3 studs for the frame
- 8 – 1 x 3s for the trim and supporting the headboard
- Metallic brackets + nuts and bolts to connect the headboard
Instruments:
- Electricity Sander (or just sand paper)
- Miter Observed Nail Gun + Air Compressor (we want we experienced a finish nailer for this challenge nevertheless)
- Circular Observed
Setting up Tutorial
The initially stage was to clear away the baseboard and build the frame. If you can build a box, then congratulations! You can do this challenge!
Use a miter observed to slash your two x 3s to the correct measurements. We slash our boards to a duration of 76 inches extended and the width of the guidance items were 17.5 inches. If we could redo the banquette, I would have performed this element otherwise! I am the literal worst at measuring. We must have produced the guidance items only 15 inches extended due to the fact our banquette is a tiny also tall the moment you add the 1 x 10s and the cushion. You win some, you get rid of some.
Simply because we didn’t have the correct equipment, we produced way a lot more get the job done for ourselves. So annoying. Each time we attached two x 3s jointly, we held them in put with a brad nail, then went again with the drill and secured them with 3.5 inch wooden screws. We experienced a finish nailer in our cart at Lowe’s but made the decision not to pull the set off (pun meant) on the acquire. Following hrs of drilling, we were kicking ourselves for not biting the bullet and just buying it.
As soon as the initially frame was designed, we repeated it for the other side of the banquette, but only produced the duration 70 inches extended to in shape in the area we experienced. The upcoming stage was connect the two frames jointly with the wooden screws.
From there, we extra the entrance of the bench which was a veneer board. Lower the board working with a circular observed and connect it to the entrance working with a brad nail gun. Because the veneer is so slim, which is all it desires to keep in put. We made the decision not to finish the again side of the banquette due to the fact no a single would at any time see it. Why do added get the job done for no explanation?!
Up coming up was including the trim. I needed to hold the trim modern-day and coordinate with the board and batten we have in our dining space. We slash the 1 x 3’s working with the miter observed and attached working with the nail gun only. Initial, we extra the outside border of the trim,
then we went again and extra the vertical items which were twelve and 6/8 extended. The finish items were 14 inches across by eighteen inches extended.
Up coming up, we attached the headboards which were also personalized-produced. I scoured Pinterest for inspiration and finished up with a belgrave shaped structure. I drew my structure on a piece of poster board and traced it on every side. Utilizing the circular observed, we slash out the sample. The headboards measurements are 76 x twenty five and 70 x twenty five.
Then, I adhered 1.5 inch foam from Joann’s with spray adhesive. Go over the complete headboard with batting and connect with a staple gun.
Then, upholster the headboard with cloth. I utilized a fake vinyl-like clearance cloth from Joann’s that cost about $twelve for each garden. I purchased 4 yards just to be safe and sound and I have a good deal still left more than. This was a single of my initially moments striving to upholster anything and there was a ton of trial and error included. Brooke, from All Points Thrifty, has a ton of fantastic tutorials so I wouldn’t have been equipped to entire this challenge if it wasn’t for her fantastic instructions.
To connect the headboard we utilized two distinctive techniques. For the still left bench, we utilized metal brackets that we purchased from Lowe’s. We chose the brackets due to the fact the bench necessary to sit flush from the wall and this permitted there to be almost no gap concerning the bench and the wall.
Prior to upholstering the headboard, Nate drilled a hole for the bolt, trapped it by means of, and screwed the nut on to hold it in put. As soon as it was time to connect the headboard, we basically eliminated the nut, slide the bolt into the metal bracket which we attached to the bench, and screwed the nut again on. Sorry I never have any images of this element.
For the right bench, we concerned about the window right driving the headboard. We didn’t want any one to accidentally crack the window by leaning also hard into it. To add a lot more security, we attached 3 1 x 3s to the bottom of the bench. We then screwed the two x 3s into the headboard working with the similar wooden screws as the frame.
Up coming, slash and connect the 1 x 10s to the prime of the bench frame with wooden screws.
From there, it was just ending get the job done! We sanded down all of the trim items to make them appear connected. I caulked all of the seams, spackled then sanded nail and screw holes, and then geared up to paint.
I painted the bench Ultra White by Valspar in semi-gloss which is what I use on all the trim in our home. I experienced to be tremendous cautious all-around the headboard and I seriously wished I would have painted it prior to I attached the whiteboards.
To create the bench, I utilized the similar method as the headboard. I slash a piece of plywood working with the circular observed, attached 3 inch foam working with spray adhesive, included the entire detail with batting and stapled it down working with a staple gun, and at last included it with black cloth. I can’t keep in mind the name of the cloth, but it was just a basic black cotton that cost much less than $5 a garden. I chose straightforward black and white colours due to the fact I needed to have a clear backdrop to pair with holiday desk settings and patterned pillows. I needed to be equipped to accessorize the desk any way I needed without the need of owning to get worried about matching the banquette.
The challenge took us a single weekend to entire with a good deal of breaks in concerning. There was unquestionably a understanding curve included + WAY also numerous visits again to Lowe’s, Joann’s, and A.C. Moore to pick up added materials. With any luck , this tutorial will aid spare you some of the problems we encountered together the way.
The complete cost was about $250, which we were fairly pleased with due to the fact when you think about it, we now have a piece of household furniture that matches perfectly, maximizes the area we have, and works perfectly with our structure design. I’d simply call that a win!
Following you build a banquette corner bench, you might want a new dining desk to build or obtain. Not sure what top to build your bench, we have acquired ideas for receiving the right top.
Be sure to be sure to pin this challenge for afterwards reference:
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Many thanks for currently being our visitor, Chelsea! Really like the banquette!
Hi. I’m Chelsea and I’m addicted to Diy. Ideal now, I’m imagining you all responding with the cliché choral response of “Hi, Chelsea.” It’s genuine, nevertheless. I am addicted to Diy and I’m not worried to say it. I compose a pretty new blog named Pinterior Designer in which I share how to’s and tales about how I’m slowly but surely upgrading my builder basic home a single ch
allenge at a time. Unfortunately for my husband, Nate, I Diy on a whim so he’ll generally appear household from a trip or a extended working day of get the job done to coated counter tops or a repainted visitor space with a fake photograph frame structure. I’ve learned that I can’t manage the insane, so I’m just embracing it. I’m not very sure if he feels the similar way…
At first revealed 1.3.2014 // Up to date 3.twenty five.2020
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