How to Build a Banquette
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Alyssa Rosenheck Design and style: Mel Bean + Bailey Austin
Up for a incredibly very simple weekend task? Feel it or not, you can make your possess banquette out of stock kitchen area cabinets, a couple of two-by-fours, and a comfortable cushion. Comprehensive the look with an assortment of graphic and stable-coloured toss pillows.
See underneath for phase-by-phase instructions from Allie Mann of Case Architects & Remodelers to get commenced on your banquette.
Resources Required
- Level
- Speed sq.
- Measuring tape
- Pencil
- Nail or screw gun with trim nails or trim screws
- 2×4 lumber materials (amount of money will rely on the dimension of the banquette)
- 1×4 lumber materials (amount of money will rely on the dimension of the banquette)
- 1×2 lumber materials (amount of money will rely on the dimension of the banquette)
- Window sill materials
- ¼” thick birch plywood
- ¾” thick birch plywood
- Construction glue
- Circular observed
- Inventory wall cabinets, 12” tall and 12” deep, width relying on place.
How to Establish the Banquette
- Identify ideal dimension of banquette seating (stock cabinets arrive in 3” increments, so if you intend to use the banquette for storage, keep this in thoughts). The cabinets should really not sit restricted wall-to-wall. There should really be a filler or piece of trim concerning the box of the cabinet and the wall to allow for for the door to open up.
- Body the system of the bench making use of the 2×4 lumber materials.
- Body a knee wall or partial wall at cabinet height to connect the cabinet making use of the 2×4 lumber materials.
- Protected bench frame to wall, together with knee wall and cabinetry, making use of nail or screw gun.
- Minimize the ¼ ” birch plywood on round observed to wrap the toe kick place (this will be painted later).
- Minimize the ¾” birch plywood on the round observed for the wooden prime. When measuring the plywood prime, allow for a ¾” overhang in entrance of the cabinet door this would be a 1.5” overhang from the precise cabinet box.
How to Establish the Banquette Wall Trim
- Future, evaluate, cut, and implement a piece of ¼ birch plywood to the wall—the size of the bench—using your complete screws and glue. The piece of plywood and bench together should really complete 48” tall above the complete floor, earning the plywood piece about 30– 32” tall.
- Future, implement a 1×4 horizontal piece to create the rectangular box above the bench at the prime and bottom of the plywood piece.
- Evaluate, cut, put, and connect the 1×4 vertical factors on the plywood with screw or nail gun. Be confident the wainscot rectangles mimic the very same width as those on the bench cabinet if doable. These rectangles you are generating on the wall will very likely be concerning 18” – 24” vast.
- End prime of the wainscot rectangle with the window sill trim materials or the 1×2 lumbar (calculated, cut, and nailed in put).
- Caulk and putty any seams, gaps, fill holes, etc.
- Sand, primary, and paint the plywood.
A variation of this aspect appeared in the July/August 2020 situation of Good Housekeeping.
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