Making a Breakfast Nook ( With Storage)!

hey I'm Chris from making everything and today we're making a breakfast nook with storage and a kitchen table check it out [Music] [Applause] this project was sent to me by a client that they had found some photos of Anouk online they wanted something that would fit their space so I did a rendering in Google Sketchup and I made a cut list and not make all this stuff available on my website they'll be a link in the description I'm basically going to be building this out of two by fours 3/4 inch finished plywood and some finished one by 4 material and all this stuff came from Home Depot but you could get it from any lumberyard I choose to use Burrell 2x4 is they're dry they're a little more money but I found that they're much straighter and I can generally just pick them out of the pile without having to go and look at every single one if I need 42 by fours doesn't take me all day so I'm just using my cut list that I generated from the Google Sketchup file and I'm cutting everything down and gangue cutting a lot of stuff just to kind of make things go a little bit faster the it's basically just a rectangular box that's wrapped in plywood it's a pretty simple design but the way it's finished up in the end really it comes out to be a nice finished product so I'm using type on glue and some three inch construction screws to screw everything together and you know just check and making sure everything's square as I'm putting this whole thing together the screws are basically acting as clamps until the glue sets you know screwing through a two-by-four into the end grain of another 2x4 like that isn't really the strongest bond but with the glue in there it'll really make it so this thing is rock-solid so the vertical supports are on the inside of the box the 3/4 inch plywood is pretty strong so I don't really have to worry about supporting the 3/4 inch plywood independent once I get to assembling it and I do a little trick here anytime I'm building a box like this on one side I throw two clamps and I let the upper ring sort of rest on it while I screw it in on the other side and I'm driving in screws on an inward angle from the corner which pulls those ports out towards the corner where I want them to be and then once that's in I tighten everything up and I just measure diagonally in both directions to make sure that the box is nice and square with the smaller section I do the same thing now on this client had decided they wanted to pick up this piece from my shop and they're actually gonna do all the finishing work themselves so they don't have a big truck so I have to make the whole piece able to be taken apart and put back together relatively easily so I built it in two sections and then I use these sort of registration marks to make it easy for them to put it back together once they get it home and again I'm using this little clamp trick for the top ring just making sure that everything's the same height and now that those are assembled I just do a little test fit putting them together it's nice about having a big table like this in the shop is I know it's almost perfectly flat so I can work off of it the concrete floor in my shop is not perfectly flat so it's nice to do off the table and I'm just using a framing square to make sure everything is nice and square it out and I'm putting up those registration marks now just writing on the piece and sharpie so I know what's what and make sure I put it back together the same way every time and clean it up a little bit and getting ready to start ripping down the plywood now for this project I'm using one side sanded pine plywood again came from Home Depot it's pretty nice material it sometimes can be a little warped but in a project like this where the pieces are nice and small I know that I can get it to be flat again by just cutting it into small enough pieces and screwing it and gluing it down so I'll just ripping everything out on the table saw and I have a cut list again from my Google Sketchup model and you know I don't always work off of the Sketchup model a lot of times I just kind of freewheel it off the top of my head but with this project since the client I never actually met the client in person we just dealt completely over the phone and through text and email I wanted to make sure that I sent them a rendering of exactly what it was going to look like so that when they got it there weren't any subscribers so once I get my pieces ripped I start to cross cut and I'm kind of right at the capacity of my saw so I sort of flip up the material at the end of the cut just to make sure I get it through and I'm labeling my material for that I know what piece goes where and I don't make any mistakes put the wrong piece anywhere I'm also being very mindful of the way the grain looks on this piece because the client is going to stain it it's not going to be painted so with the staining I want to make sure that there's not any ugly you know knots or anything that's really gonna look up true Civ once they stay in this piece and if you watch any of my other videos you know how much I like using this drywall gun for a plywood project so since this thing is gonna get trimmed around in one by four I can use the drywall gun around the edges and screw all this plywood on there and it'll make it really strong and then I'll cover all these screw heads with the 1 by 4 material I'm using inch and 5/8 drywall screws and just zipping them through that plywood making sure everything stays nice and tight you know structure of these boxes really gets enhanced by the amount of screws I'm putting in there it definitely feels like they get nice and sturdy and there's really no movement in them at all so I'm just checking again to make sure everything goes together and starting to layout for the 1 by fours and now since again since everything's being stained I have to be extra careful with my seams and I he actually careful with my fasteners so normally if I was using a product that was gonna be painted if I was you know making something that was gonna be painted I could use 18 gauge brad nails and I wouldn't have to be too cautious but in this case I'm gonna be using a 23 gauge pin nailer so anywhere that I have to show a fastener will be just a tiny little hole and since they're standing in with a dark color those little holes actually pretty much disappear once you stain it the only way you can really seem as if you get really up close to the piece so I'm also putting in some screws from the backside because you won't see those obviously and there's a little bit of a lip there where I'm gonna insert a top piece so there's room for me to stick some inch-and-a-quarter screws and just get everything nice and tight the thing I've noticed with pins that if you don't use glue eventually the pins have no head so the wood can get a little bit loose if people are gonna be maybe hitting it with their feet and since this is a banquette sort of no bench thing you know people's feet are gonna be banging against that bottom trim a lot so I wanted to make sure I got it really nice and secure with screws from the back and a good amount of pins and glue and just being very cautious to make sure that none of the screws go through the front and using a clamp to just make sure everything folds in nice and tight making sure everything lines up in that quarter I just had to cut these little pieces of trim just a little bit with a ham saw just to make sure everything got in that corner really nice so the goal is that when they assemble this in their home it looks like it was always one piece you know that it was basically trimmed as one piece and if I would be installing this myself I would just trim it in their house so I would make sure that if the wall was out of 90 it would still look perfect but uh they had checked the wall and they seemed to think that it would fit nice and in the photos at the end of this build you'll see the final installation and it came out really nice again just putting in some screws from the back to hold that upper trim and using pin nails on the bottom along with some screws from the inside and now that the horizontal pieces are mounted I'll just put some vertical trim pieces on so the outside edges and that inside corner just get straight up-and-down pieces and since everything's being stained again I want to make sure that all my joints are really nice and tight so I'm using glue I'm actually nailing a little extension piece on there so that I can slip behind it and look nice and seamless now those two pieces are independent but they looked like one continuous edge when you look at it from straight ahead and now I'm just working a 45 degree edge on some more 1by material and then these will go together and they'll make the corner blocks so again I'm just gonna use glue and some pin nails just to build these corners and what's nice about these as I made them a tiny bit long and then I can put them up into place and I can cut them down on the miter saw and make sure that they're a really nice tight fit this one was just a little tiny bit long so I just shaved it down and banged it in just persuade it in a little bit get that nice tight fit and I know I won't really move around on me with some pins in there so while I was doing this project Mac he's in the background was router in some slots on the table saw table so that we can use a cross-cutting sled and now that the trim is done I just add some more supports to the benches you know these are gonna be sat on a lot so I wanted to make sure I had a censor bar that would go all the way down to the floor just to keep those two-by-fours from sagging the back sections of these don't have any any plywood on them they just are a 2x4 kind of spanning so I wanted to make sure that they stayed strong and they didn't say the plywood will keep the front from sagging but the back now gets the support and they'll last a long time now for the top the client had asked for storage so what I did was I put on some 3/4 inch plywood and I just screwed it down and you can see I'm standing on these and there's no flex in them at all and then once I get this 3/4 inch plywood on I go back and I lay out some doors and I'll cut them in they didn't ask for anything specific in terms of the storage but I sort of just made up my own layout I decided to do two doors on this one because it's a little bit longer and one door on the other and what I do here is I just lay it out and cut them in width for this circular saw and I don't get all the way to the corner because I don't want an overlapping cut I get close to the corner and then I come in with the jigsaw and a oscillating tool like a fine tool and I cut in the rest and what I like to do what I do cut in doors like this is I like to cut them almost all away and screw on the hinges so that I don't have to try and line up the door later so you see I had installed those hinges and then I finished the cut and now with the type of hinges that I had I wanted to use something that was heavy-duty enough that they could go in and out of it a lot but it offset the door a little bit so now that it's cut and I finished the cup with the oscillating tool the door actually shifted over about a quarter of an inch so I just go back with the circular saw and I rip off about a half inch and now I get a nice even reveal so one door is finished and I go over to the next one and basically finish it up the same way but before I do that I put in a little doorstop material and this is just some three quarter-inch plywood scraps and that just acts as a nice stop you know something that when you sit on it the door doesn't feel like it's gonna flex into the bench and again I'm adding the hinges first and then finishing up my cuts altogether I used six hinges on this project two on each doing on this side and then two on the larger door on the other side of the bench and since there's a little bit of frame structure on the inside you can really store a lot of large items in here and they go all the way down to the floor so you can kind of expand it and get the maximum amount of storage out of this I'm putting a joint doorstop material in between the two doors and just use the screws and glue here these are going to be covered in cushions that the client is gonna make herself and the finish orders that I have the cushions haven't been installed yet but the way that it's stained up with the black heads of the drywall screws that I use they blend right in with the dark walnut stain that they decided to use on brought up here I just have my vacuum hose if tied to my saw just to try and mitigate the dust a little bit I don't have a track saw on the shop right now so kind of just use what I have and try and control the dust as best I can and now this door is bigger but the process is the same just install the hinges cut everything down drill my holes and make sure that all the corners are nice and freed up so the door operates nice and smooth you can see my registration marks that I gave to the client so that when they put this together inside their house it's easy to know you know where the screws go I circled the screws and these screws have a t25 star head on them and I gave them a t25 fit when they picked up the unit so that I know that they be able to use the screws I also gave him a handful of extra screws something else that I like to provide the client when they're gonna do the finishing themselves is I give them a couple pieces of scrap wood that I use on the project so when they get home they can try out some different stains and they can know exactly what the product is gonna look like instead of having to take a risk on something that they just picked up even if they're using a paint so I gave them some off cuts off the plywood and some off cuts off of one by material so that they could try out different stain colors I'm just putting a center support there so now the bench is essentially done and the other part of this project was to make a kitchen table so here I'm just disassembling the bench getting it off the table and now the kitchen table is a simple design as well just using the 3/4 inch plywood again but for the table we're gonna be gluing two pieces of 3/4 inch together and making a solid inch and a half thick top now this material had a little bit of a warp in it so what I did to correct that was I put the opposing cupped warps together and it made a really nice flat substrate and turned out really good they also the column the center support for the table is just a plywood column with 45-degree rips on it so I went through and I ripped a couple of pieces of the 3/4 inch plywood with 45s on both sides and then I basically just build a long square box as the center support while I'm ripping this up and you see Mac in the background he's gluing up the top and we're just using the type on glue and you know he's just making sure that he spreads it evenly over the whole top the last thing I want is for this thing to come apart but since we can use screws from the bottom side he spreads on this glue and we flip on the top and just use a handful of screws to make sure that we get it nice and flat you can see a little bit how it's cuffed and separating in that corner well once we use some clamps and screws it comes together really nice we're using inch and a quarter drywall screws and they get a good bond if you do two pieces of 3/4 inch material back-to-back you just have to make sure you don't sink the heads too far because the tips can pop out the front so while he screws the edges I'm just putting some weight on the rest of it so that we don't wind up with sort of a bubble in the middle and with the tabletop almost done I start to cut up the legs for the column now I did have a bit of a problem putting this together because the 3/4 inch material did have that warp in it it was a little difficult to get these pieces together nicely typically what I would do when making a box like this is I tape all the seams apply the glue and and the box basically builds itself but since these pieces had some dust on them and they were warped my tape trick didn't really work so I'll end up just pinning it together and kind of rolling it as I went and the tape just basically fell off this also left me with some gaps in the corners which is typical when you're building a box that's this long but a good trick you can see there is I take a clamp and I take the edge of my hammer and I basically just rolled edge of that would over itself and by pushing and rolling that edge and then taking some sandpaper and going back and sanding it you can close up a corner really nice and you can see there that the gaps that were there before are pretty much gone just from sanding and pressing you know doesn't give you a necessarily very sharp corner it rounds it a little bit but I think it's a nice look and it keeps it nice and tight and again that the table has to be able to be taken apart so that the clients pick it up so my method for this is I make a bracket out of that's about 2 by 2 materials so it's inch and a half by inch and a half and I make this bracket with glue and screws and I make it so that it perfectly fits inside the top and perfectly sits inside the bottom of this column so what I do is I then attach this bracket to the center of the tabletop and then I put the column on the bracket put some screws in it and it makes a nice detachable top so the other part of this glue up for the tabletop was that once we got it viewed and the glue that dried decided to just cut it down and make it nice and square so the top wound up being about 47 by 47 and then it'll get wrapped in an edge banding of pine so that you don't see the plywood edges and by doing this you know you get a nice square top you know I'm making sure that everything everything sits nice and when I go to wrap it it'll be it'll be nice crisp corner miters on the whole thing because it'll be a perfect square I'm just going back and recess in a few screw heads now I'm finding the center of the tabletop with that long straight edge and I'm screwing that bracket in also using some glue like I had said I'm using three inch screws here but I'm putting them in on an angle to be sure that they don't come up through the top and then you put that column on put a couple screws in and it's nice and sturdy so the top is ready and now it's time to just make up a quick base so the base that I had decided to make was 24 by 24 I just take a half sheet of plywood that I had I ripped 24 and then ripped that in half and it's the same principle as I use on the top threats will glue around with a stick and then put the pieces together put it in an array of inch-and-a-quarter drywall screws and that'll be the bottom I don't wait for this to dry I just you know the screws are acting as a clamp so I just rip it down into the correct dimension and then I find the center of it again I attach the bracket same as I did at the top and then the column just sits over that bracket put a couple screws in it and it's good to go I like to use Brad's to keep the wood from moving around while I'm putting in the screws I'm using four screws on the bottom and the four screws up on the top as well and this clip you only see me put in two but I will not be using floor altogether to keep it sturdy now I can get an idea of how the table and the and the bench sit and I can take some one by material and I rip this 1 by 6 in half I think it was a 1 by 6 and I wound up with about inch and a half now I'd be a 1 by 4 I'll end up with about inch and a half material and then I just cut some miters on the edge and I wrapped it around the table top to get this nice finished look and this pine is all very similar in color so it'll stain up very similarly and the miter is just add a little bit of you know detail to the edges and it keeps that plywood from showing so I'm just using pins again pins and glue getting those minors nice and tight and I'll go back and sort of hand sand every day you know before I gave this to the client I also sanded the entire top with 220 grit sandpaper but I didn't show that in the video nobody wants to watch me sand a 4 by 4 table for 2 hours so at this point the projects done and just to see how it would look all together I put it up on the table made sure that everything was gonna match and look nice the client picked it up and they decided to stain it in a walnut stain they used the Minwax walnut the wipe on and then they use some polyurethane and I'll show some pictures of it now this is a nice simple project that you can do you know with a table saw and a miter saw and there's a lot of great images of these types of tables online but I was really happy with the way this came out and the client really liked it I'm excited to see the way they upholster it but thanks for watching my name is Chris app for make everything I hope you learned something from this video please like and subscribe to my channel for more content like this and if you have any questions leave them in the comment all right see you on the next one

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Length: 22min 36sec (1356 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 12 2017