I made this bench the other day for IQ’s (our daughter) room. It doubles as storage, which is great, because that kid has more stuff than I do. You could make this for pretty much any room in your house, or even an outdoor space (maybe when it warms up again).
Supplies:
-4′ x 8′ sheet of 3/4″ hardwood ply (I used 3/4″ particle board just because I never had before. I wanted to try it out, but if I were to do it again, I’d just use plywood.)
-4′ x 8′ sheet of 1/8″ DPI board (optional, if you want the bench/storage to have sliding doors)
-wood glue
Tools:
-table saw
-miter saw
-nailer
-pocket hole jig
-drill
-measuring tape
-pencil
Click here to download the storage bench diagram/cut list
Step One: The first thing I did was cut out all of the material. I wanted to challenge myself to make the bench from one sheet of material. See diagram above for the cut list.
Step Two: After I had all the pieces cut, it was time to do a bit of pocket hole drilling. All of the B pieces needed to have holes drilled on both top and bottom sides (refer to diagram above). The D pieces just needed holes for the bottom. I made the sides half pieces so that even with the doors closed, Imogen could take toys out of the sides or (fingers crossed) put them away. I’m sure that day is a couple months away.
Step Three: Once the holes were all drilled, it was time to assemble. I measured and marked out where each piece went. Each piece was about 9″ apart from each other. From there, I just worked my way down, gluing and screwing. I wanted the storage to have sliding doors, so I cut a notch out of the upper piece corner, which was about 1/4″ x 1/4″. Once that was done, I attached it to the top of the bench
Step Four: After the top was attached, the back was cut and attached; I cut out the doors and placed them in the opening. Then I nailed on all of the surround strips, which kept the doors in place and gave the overall piece a bit more detail. I drilled out a couple of finger holes and was done! Or so I thought. I liked the brown color, dang it! But Sarah had other plans. I ended up painting it gloss white, which looks good too. 😉 The particle board needed three coats to start looking halfway decent (another reason I’ll never use particle board again, but at least I know now!).
I hauled the thing upstairs (I’m just looking to kill my back again), and it looks pretty dang good!
What do you think? Do you have a space this might work in? -Josh
Credits // Author: Joshua Rhodes. Photography: Sarah Rhodes. Photos edited with A Beautiful Mess actions.
would you please be able to send a cut list? this is amazing! and do you think MDF would work as well?
Love this modern storage bench, can you please email me a higher resolution measurements on the cutting diagram? Hope this can be done in a week for beginner.
I would love to make this project, but am having a difficult time seeing the mesurements on the cutting diagram. Is there a way I could get a higher resulution picture, so that I can zoom in and see how to do the cuts. Thank you
Sorry about that! I just added a higher-res image to the post that you can download. 🙂
Could you please email me the cutlist dimensions, too small to read.
Thanks.
Will do!
thank you ma’am , appreciate it .
how did you notch the track for the doors ???
could you email a cutlist. dimensions and resolutions are too small to make everything out.
thanks.
We’d love to make this but we can’t read the measurements in the cut out diagram, can you post a larger picture?
I couldn’t read the “cut list” for the storage bench. Could you email it to me?
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You are so talented! I love how you made a gorgeous bench and made mini compartments, such a creative idea.
I love these kind of projects! Thanks for sharing.
Storage is always essential! I love it when it can be multipurpose!
Do you think doing this in plywood would mean some messy looking edges? The edging on your particle board looks really clean. Thinking this might be my weekend plans 🙂
Thank you for sharing! It looks like something bought from IKEA. I love it! It’s creative and good-looking!
Thank you for sharing! It looks like something bought from IKEA. I love it! It’s creative and good-looking!
this piece is gorgeous!
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Target 🙂 -Sarah
Cute project! Thanks for sharing the tutorial!
Source for photo frames on the wall? Thank you!
Hah!! I figure I post enough photos on instagram for the entire internet!! 😉 But keep an eye out for her room tour in the next couple weeks – we’ve got several IQ appearances on there. 😉 xo – Sarah
I gotta say, there just simply aren’t enough pictures of IQ on this blog.