How To Make A Window Bench With Storage

If you've e'er wanted a DIY built-in demote in your habitation, this the perfect tutorial for y'all.

Hey guys! Today I am sharing the tutorial for the DIY Built-In Dining Room Demote with Storage that my married man and I completed over a year agone. I'thou embarrassed to have been sitting on this content for and then long, but better tardily than never. I've shared it so many times on Instagram, just the moment to share with a full tutorial is finally here. It'due south been my dream to add together a bench somewhere in our home, and the one thing that I thought I was missing was the perfect nook. Well, one mean solar day while walking through this room, it hit me that the back wall would be the perfect infinite to add a DIY Built-In Dining room bench with storage, mainly because in that location was a wall to wall nook.

In the kickoff, my dining room had moving-picture show molding around the entire room as you can see below:

I first institute a more oval manner oak table that fit the space much meliorate at my local Goodwill. I re-stained the oak tabular array using my trusted "refinishing an oak table" method. Calculation this table provided a bit more than space for seating, so I knew that the DIY Built-in Dining Demote would be the perfect addition.

And I admittedly love the character that it adds to an otherwise more standard builder course room, but in the process of determining that I wanted to add the bench, I knew that in gild to become a actually finished expect in the space, we would take to begin by removing the molding from the surface area that we wanted to add the bench. That mode once the demote is built, we could add molding back that mimics the rest of the room.

We removed the molding by slicing away at the caulk around the molding using a hooked caulk scraper to cut the molding and and a hammer and chisel to pop the molding off. Overall it was much simpler than I thought it would be and the molding pried right off.

Once we removed the molding, the space looked like this…

Once nosotros removed the molding from that wall, we began the framing.

How to Build a Congenital-In Bench Frame

To determine our bench frame size, we measured the unabridged length of the wall, the width of the wall, and the height. The top of the frame nosotros adamant from a standard chair acme, which is 18 to 20 inches.

So nosotros went to our local Dwelling Depot and purchased 4- 10ft long and 2-8ft long ii×4's. Since we went with the measurments that we needed, we only had them cut the 2×4'southward based on our measurements.

Our cut listing:
four- 119.5 inch long pieces cutting from the ten ft pieces
2-8ft pieces, we brought home to cut the remaining forest pieces ourselves using our mitre saw

Using our stud finder, husband plotted out the areas in which he wanted to place the 2×4. It'due south all-time to use wood screws, locate the studs, and screw directly into the stud for maximum back up.

We and then measured the sides, and fastened the wood into the studs for the smaller side pieces equally well. Our sides measured 22 inches long.

To secure the side pieces to the front end and back long pieces, we purchased L brackets. They made the attachments fifty-fifty more than secure.

Beyond the front, we used the same 119.5 inch pieces that nosotros used along the back. By the terminate, we had a perfect box.

To reinforce this box, we added several wood pieces cut the length of the superlative and bottom brackets. You tin can see what I'grand talking nigh in the pic below. .

To attach the back pieces, nosotros drilled straight into the studs. To attach the front pieces, we used directly brackets.

How to Repair Damaged Drywall from Molding Removal

To repair the surface area where we removed the molding, we used drywall repair mud and a spackle. I really recommend completing this repair portion before edifice the

To apply, I but smoothed the drywall mud over the wall where the molding had been removed.

I allow information technology dry out overnight…

Subsequently drying overnight, the areas were sanded using a drywall mitt sander.

While sanding, I made sure that I wore a protective mask across my face.

These steps should be repeated until the damaged areas are smooth and barely visible. Polish to the touch is more important than the visibility. This process in known every bit skim coating. Information technology took me repeating this process around iv times in order to have a nice finished wall ready to be primed.

Next, nosotros focused on building the external structure of bench using plywood cut to our desired measurements. Nosotros decided to split the bench and get in two sides and then that would not be i long top. Having it in two made more than sense.

We did this by calculation an additional 2×4 in betwixt to provide support for the demote seating before we added the plywood.

How to Build Bench Seating with Storage

To complete the bench seating, nosotros used flat plywood, that was already sanded and primed which was $35 a canvas. You can opt for cheaper wood, nevertheless, you will spend more time sanding the wood to brand it smooth enough to pigment.

We had Home Depot cut it downwards to our desired measurements. We bought two.

To attach the plywood to the front, we used wood nails to spiral into the 2×4'due south that were in identify every bit the bench frame.

To attach the bench tops, we used four metal brackets so that the bench could open up and close.

On the front, we added decorative molding to mimic the wall in the balance of the room.

Once the molding was added, I used my HomeRight paint sprayer to paint everything with a nice smoothe coat of white pigment.

To brand the bench cushion, I used cream and a gray linen that I purchased from Hobby Vestibule.

I just hot glued the fabric to the foam and used velcro to adhere information technology to the superlative of the demote.

If you are curious, inside, I store paint supplies, and other things every bit needed. Its so lovely having a identify to shop miscellaneous items.

So that's it. The demote is at present complete. We've been living with this bench OVER a year now and it is literally 1 of the most favorite areas of my home and contributed to a makeover of this infinite, which will exist revealed side by side week.

So what practice y'all call up? Do y'all accept a space in your dwelling house that could apply a built-in demote somewhere? Make sure you pivot this paradigm to save information technology for hereafter reference.