How to Build a Banquette

how to build a banquette

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Up for a surprisingly very simple weekend project? Think it or not, you can make your personal banquette out of stock kitchen cabinets, a pair of two-by-fours, and a comfy cushion. Finish the glimpse with an assortment of graphic and sound-coloured throw pillows.

See below for stage-by-stage guidelines from Allie Mann of Circumstance Architects & Remodelers to get begun on your banquette.


Supplies Needed

  • Stage
  • Speed square
  • Measuring tape
  • Pencil
  • Nail or screw gun with trim nails or trim screws
  • 2×4 lumber materials (quantity will rely on the measurement of the banquette)
  • 1×4 lumber materials (quantity will rely on the measurement of the banquette)
  • 1×2 lumber materials (quantity will rely on the measurement of the banquette)
  • Window sill materials
  • ¼” thick birch plywood
  • ¾” thick birch plywood
  • Design glue
  • Circular noticed
  • Stock wall cabinets, 12” tall and 12” deep, width depending on room.

    How to Create the Banquette

    • Establish desired measurement of banquette seating (stock cabinets appear in 3” increments, so if you intend to use the banquette for storage, keep this in mind). The cabinets really should not sit tight wall-to-wall. There really should be a filler or piece of trim involving the box of the cupboard and the wall to let for the doorway to open up.
    • Body the system of the bench utilizing the 2×4 lumber materials.
    • Body a knee wall or partial wall at cupboard peak to connect the cupboard utilizing the 2×4 lumber materials.
    • Secure bench frame to wall, alongside with knee wall and cabinetry, utilizing nail or screw gun.
    • Cut the ¼ ” birch plywood on circular noticed to wrap the toe kick room (this will be painted later).
    • Cut the ¾” birch plywood on the circular noticed for the picket top rated. When measuring the plywood top rated, let a ¾” overhang in front of the cupboard doorway this would be a 1.5” overhang from the actual cupboard box.

      How to Create the Banquette Wall Trim

      • Up coming, evaluate, cut, and implement a piece of ¼ birch plywood to the wall—the length of the bench—using your end screws and glue. The piece of plywood and bench collectively really should end 48” tall previously mentioned the end flooring, producing the plywood piece all-around 30– 32” tall.
      • Up coming, implement a 1×4 horizontal piece to develop the rectangular box previously mentioned the bench at the top rated and base of the plywood piece.
      • Evaluate, cut, spot, and connect the 1×4 vertical factors on the plywood with screw or nail gun. Be confident the wainscot rectangles mimic the exact same width as individuals on the bench cupboard if attainable. These rectangles you are developing on the wall will likely be involving 18” – 24” vast.
      • Finish top rated of the wainscot rectangle with the window sill trim materials or the 1×2 lumbar (measured, cut, and nailed in spot).
      • Caulk and putty any seams, gaps, fill holes, etcetera.
      • Sand, primary, and paint the plywood.

        A edition of this aspect appeared in the July/August 2020 concern of Superior Housekeeping.

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