Over the weekend, I finally completed two projects I've been working on so long I've forgotten when I started them! The first is an eat-in dining booth in our kitchen. When we built our house several years ago, we designed this nook-like space into the kitchen for a future booth. The bench seats are actually repurposed from a (surprisingly comfortable) church pew that I bought for $20 several years ago. I designed and built new bases and cut down the seats (back and bottom) to fit. I stripped the original finish and repainted the seats white to match the trim and kitchen cabinets. The table is quarter-sawn white oak and stained and finished to match the kitchen island. The construction was pretty straightforward (combination of pocket hole and domino joinery). The most fun/challenging part of the project was just dealing with all the curves ... including matching the front stretcher to the curves of the two side supports, which was a great way to practice and improve my hand planing skills.
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