How to Build a Mudroom Storage Bench and Hall Tree

[Music] hey guys it's Shar from wood shop Diaries and in today's video I'm going to show you how I built my friend this mudroom bench technically it's like a built in but I built it as one single unit so that we can easily transport it from my shop to her house so they'll screw it to the studs and it'll be built in at that point but as of now it's just one solid single piece despite the the fact that this is quite heavy it was an easy build and I've got the approvable plans for you linked in the video description but if you're ready to see how it all came together let's [Music] go so if you know me at all you probably guessed that this project included some plow wood so the first thing that I did here was start cutting things down I've provided the plow wood cut diagram in the plans linked below but to make things easy I cut all of my pieces for the bench to 18 in square this allowed me to set up my Craig rib cut to 18 in and then make all of these Cuts without having to adjust anything to make the best use of the plywood for this build I first ripped an 18in wide strip off of the short side of one of my sheets then I set the rest aside to use later and headed to grab my second sheet now if you're interested in the shop cat he will be making his appearance several times throughout the video so keep an eye [Music] out now from my second sheet I ripped a strip off of the long side and again set the rest to the side to come back to [Music] [Music] later then I ripped these two strips down into seven total 18in Square panels okay so now that I have my 78in Square pieces of plywood this is what I had left the offcuts I need some top braces for the bench seat that I'm building I need six of them these pieces were left over so they should be 18 in long this way so I can rip this in half and get two strips and then this is 18 in long this way so I can rip this into four pieces and get six strips total so I'm just going to rip these on the table saw you could rip these with a circular saw if you're like super careful but if you have a table saw this obviously is going to be a little quicker with these pieces for the bench trimmed down I moved on to sanding everything well before assembling and speaking of sanding if you're interested in my painting process I did actually include it in the video this time after many requests so keep an eye out for that a little later I use pocket holes to assemble this simple bench cabinet so I drilled 3/4 in pocket holes into the ends of the top support strips and into the ends of three of the square panels if you'd like to know how to set up and use a pocket hole jig I've got a detail guide Linked In the video description below I measured and marked a line 3 and 38 in up from the bottom edge of the side panels and lined up the bottom panel at this Mark then I assembled the bench using 1 and 1/4 in pocket hole screws each of the three sections of the bench will have these two support strips at the top and these are there to obviously Hold the top of the bench cabinet together but also to install the bench seat later I worked my way along adding the pieces for each section until the bench box was complete next was adding a face frame to it I made the face frame from 1x3s and a 1x4 I put the 1x4 on the bottom and then used the 1x3s for the top and the dividers again I use pocket holes to assemble the space frame so I drilled through 3/4 in pocket holes into the ends of the divider pieces then assembled using pocket hole screws before gluing anything I made sure to first test fit the face frame to make sure it would fit over the front of the bench and thank goodness it did because I didn't have enough material to rebuild it then I glued in Brad nailed it in place because I was painting this project I wanted to make sure that things were nice and smooth so after it was installed I puted over the nail holes and all of the joints and I'll come back later and sand it smooth for now I grabed the plywood that I had set aside from earlier these will become the back panel however since this bench is wider than 4 foot which is how wide a sheet of plywood is that meant that I was going to have to piece the back panel together so I cut one large piece that will cover two sections of the bench then I cut another piece from the other sheet to make up the difference to cover the entire back side of the bench okay so I've got the one Sol ID panel for these two sections over here and then I've got one panel to cover the rest of it I want this back panel to function as like one unit so I need to attach them and the best way I can figure out how is to do pocket holes um and with the pocket holes I will probably put them on the front side and then I can cover them with trim later so that way not that you're going to see the back but that way at least the back will be clean and you won't see the pocket HS cuz they'll be covered with trim [Music] so to keep things more stable I wanted to join these pieces together so I drilled 3/4 in pocket holes along one end of one of the pieces then used wood glue and pocket hole screws to join them together at this point Danny had come home from work and wondered what I was doing I think he was kind of confused but he offered to help nonetheless I test fit the bench to make sure that they were in fact the same width then I let the glue dry overnight the next day I got back to work and installed the back panel to the bench I pre-drilled all of my holes to prevent splitting the plywood and then put a couple of screws in on each side then I flipped it over and added some along the bottom panels then flipped it back and added some along the top adding this large panel onto the back made the bench very topheavy so I had to be careful not to push it or it would tilt backward pretty easily the next part was adding the bench seat so I cut my bench seat from a partial sheet of plow wood that I already had in the shop now as a note about this besides the bench seat you can build this entire project with just two sheets of plywood but if you cut your seat from plywood as well you'll need a third sheet now I use a bunch of plywood in my shop so I don't mind having scraps but if you didn't want to buy a whole sheet just to cut the seat from you can certainly just glue up a solid wood panel using one by material instead I test fit the bench seat but I didn't install it just yet I wanted to be able to paint this without worrying about the seat being in the way so I used it as a spacer block for adding the trim on top but didn't screw it in place place yet now speaking of the trim on the back side that's where I went next I trimmed out the back using 1x4 boards and I used wood glue and Brad nails to secure each piece I made sure to leave room at the bottom for the bench seat to slide into later now you can get us creative as you want with the trim but I obviously kept it pretty simple once all the pieces were on I puted the nail holes in all of the joints just like I did for the bench seat earlier because I was painting this I tried to prep everything to be as smooth and even as possible so it'll look as seamless as possible once it's finished okay so I just laid this thing over on the ground and used my orbital sander to just sand all the putty smooth sand all the joints as smooth as I could get them with paint those little uneven spots where the boards meet they will show up so it's kind of critical when you're painting to make sure to sand cat Hush The Final Touch before finish was adding the crown molding around the top where this is going to be going this left side is going to go in a corner so it'll be buted against the wall on the left side and on the back so in order to be able to but it flush against the wall I'm not going to put crown molding on this side I'm just going to put crown molding across the front and on the right side so it's just going to like wrap around the corner bub stop stop I've linked a detailed guide on cutting crown molding in the video description but once the pieces were cut I used wood glue and Brad nails to secure them then put it over the seam and the nail holes then it was time to paint and after many requests I'm not going to skip over this part okay so it's painting day the last couple videos that I did um where I painted something I actually just like made a joke about it that I snapped my fingers and it was instantly painted and I didn't share the process just because I hate it I hate painting but I had a lot of requests that I share my painting process as well so I'm going to Prime first and I'll show you what I'm using so I actually ran out of paint liners paint tray liners I have one left and I'm going to save it for the paint so for the primer I literally just took a grocery bag and just stuck it in my tray here using kills 3 and FYI I've sanded the project to like 220 grit I think it was usually when I'm priming or painting I'll start by simply brushing the corners and all of the things that I can't roll so in this case I brushed primer onto the molding and into the corners of the trim then I used the trim roller to roll primer on all of the flat surfaces my only advice here is just to pay attention and smooth out any streaks that you see before it dries I just applied one coat of primer to the back panel and on the sides and the front of the bench where I'm going to be painting I didn't paint the inside of the bench once the primer was Dy to the touch I hand sanded the entire piece with 220 grit sandpaper sometimes I use 400 grit instead and that works fine too if if you ever run your hands over freshly primed wood it feels a little chalky and kind of rough lightly sanding it just kind of Smooths that out a little so while the primer was drying I walked the dog it it's cold outside so I added the Hat um but now we are going to caul so what I'm using is this dap Alex Flex trim caul I don't know it's it's what I had on hand it works fine I've used it before um but I've also used other stuff too so it's not like you have to use a specific type anyway basically the purpose of the caul is just to make cleaner joints so I'll apply them on the inside corners of all of this trim so that way if there's any boards that were a little bit warped or whatever and they didn't sit perfectly flat against the plywood back this will seal that like Gap so that when I paint it'll look seamless and nice and clean my dad always told me that you never close a knife you didn't open so always be sure to close the knives that you do open so somebody else can use them I don't know why I just told you that I apply caul on the inside Corners to make for a cleaner paint job you just apply a small bead then I just like to smooth it out with my finger so these gaps right here are what I'm talking about so this board didn't sit completely flush to the plywood so there's a little Gap here when I put paint over it it's going to look really messy so the whole point of caul is to like fill in these gaps so that your paint goes on nice and smooth and everything looks pretty seamless the most annoying thing about caul is that even the fast drying stuff still takes forever to dry especially in cold temperatures but you want to make sure to let it dry well before painting I'm not like a paint snob or anything but I personally just like Sherin Williams paint and my friend chose this color so that's what I got I apply paint just like primer I brush first then roll I let the first coat dry to the touch then applied a second one and it covered really well sometimes I have to do a third coat but thankfully this was good after just two the next day after it was completely dry I applied some clear coat using a brush to the insides of the bench I applied three coats just sanding lightly between each one and while that was drying I brought the bench seat back out and applied iron on edge banding to the front and exposed side edge banding is always an optional step but it makes it look a little cleaner so I like to add it then I carefully placed this onto the bench and just kind of tapped it back so that it was flush to the back panel since the left side here is going against a wall I made sure not to leave any overhang on that side so that it will sit flush then I use some 1 and 1/4 in screws through the top supports on the inside of the bench to secure it that's kind of challenging to capture on camera since it's on the inside of a small space so just kind of use your imagination here I applied three coats of clear coat to the bench seat to seal it just like I did the inside of the bench and I also added some simple wooden hooks that my friend had given me to use with this and at this point it was finished and ready to be installed in her house this can certainly stand alone but I would actually recommend using a few screws through the back panel to secure it to the wall studs behind it just so that it doesn't like move or tilt I'm so happy with how this turned out and I really hope you enjoyed watching it come together don't forget to grab the plans linked below and if you can't wait to see the latest projects be sure to subscribe to the channel and follow along thanks so much for watching friends and until next time happy building

Channel: Shara Woodshop Diaries

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Length: 17min 17sec (1037 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 27 2023