 We just made this DIY upholstered farmhouse bench with two 2x4s, a 2x3, a project board, some foam and some fabric. And we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up a welcome back? Do you like to do a builder make it? So do we. And we do it every Friday. This week we're making a bench for your behind. A little stump for your rump, a helm for your heiny, a chair for your derriere, a chair for your derriere. This week's project is functional for us. Now that we're staying home a lot, we're doing a lot of game nights, sitting at our family room and our sofa, but the person on the other side of the coffee table has to sit on the floor and we flip a coin. Well really we just make one of the kids flip a coin because they're the ones that are gonna sit on the other side. So I started to look for a solution and I found this cute little bench that I think would be perfect to sit on the other side of the coffee table and then we'll have to sit on the floor. And of course I said we could totally build that. So that's what we're doing today. Cutting a little wood, cutting a little foam, cutting a little bit of fabric. Yes because it's going to be upholstered. Now I've never done this before so I'm looking forward to upholstering the top. I mean a basic upholstery job. I'm not adding the what are the rivets? Buttons, no buttons, no fancy piping, no ruffles, yeah it's just a basic bench. Basic beginner bench. Step one, we're gonna gather all of our supplies. For this we just needed two 2x4s, a 2x3, that's the base. A project board, it's like 16 by 44, 48. We'll trim it down. Some fabric, some foam, and some cotton batting. Yes and we're modifying some plans from her tool belt. So I'll put those down below so you'll know the exact measurements. You'll know how much fabric. Oh actually we're just stealing the base side. Yeah we're just stealing her base idea. We're taking her legs in base and then we're adding a new top to it. On a upholstered top. So I have about two yards of fabric here. I'm not sure how much fabric I'll use. Once I figure that out I'll also add that down below with the plans. Step two! Now we're gonna make all of our cuts. Well just the wood cuts for the base. We'll be back for the foam in the top. But we should make all of our cuts with my pocket saw. I love this thing. I still love this thing. We go everywhere together. First we're gonna cut our legs out of the 2x4. We're gonna set a stop block up at 17 inches. Then we're gonna set the saw at 10 degrees and we're just gonna cut four of those. Next we're gonna cut the little X pieces that go in the middle. Those are 2x3s. We're gonna set the stop block up at 15 and 5 eighths. Then we're gonna set the saw at 45 and we're gonna make four of those cuts. I'm gonna set up a little stop block for 9 inches. These are for our little spacers. This is still 2x3. We're gonna cut four of those. And finally we need the 2x4. We're gonna cut a 35 and 5 eighths and a 29 inch. Step three! Now we're gonna stain. Oh you thought we were gonna put it together first. No we're gonna stain all the pieces first because it's hard to get those nooks and crannies and then wipe it back out of the corners. So we're gonna stain it. Then we'll put it together and paint it. Yeah so I'm gonna do a paint job on top of the stain because the one we saw online was really distressed looking and I loved it. So I want to replicate that same look. So we're gonna stain it with this nice Kona which is a real dark brown which will look great underneath a white paint as I distress it. Distress it. Skip some pieces. Flake it off. First we stain. Now we're gonna assemble it. We're gonna take these little 2x3s these 9 inch pieces and put them on the ends of the 29 inch piece and the 35 inch piece. We're gonna use the pocket holes. Remember those? And we're using a two and a half inch pocket hole screw. I'm gonna shim mine so that it lines up a little better. We're gonna use those 2x4s that we have the 10 degree cutting. We're gonna use those as legs but first we need to put some pilot holes in them. So we measured where the center is. Kind of line them up. Got our countersinks in there with the little pilot hole. Now we're gonna attach the legs with these three inch screws. We're gonna take those little 2x3s that we put the 45 degree in and we're going to glue and tack them to the center brace. The top of the center brace. Remember it's upside down right now. We're gonna use a 1 1⁄4 inch brad. The nail, not the guy. That's just to hold them. Temporarily hold them. Now we're gonna attach the bottom. We're gonna slide it in, line it up, then we'll glue the feet. Do these X's. Add a pilot hole with a countersink where we're gonna attach all the legs to the bottom. We're gonna paint it Bear's Chalk Paint in Pale Moon. I'm gonna distress it because we are. Yes. So I'm gonna try to go light on the edges when I'm painting it. Step 6. We start assembling the top. I'm gonna take this project board down and shave off four inches. Right now we're just gonna put the project board on the foam and trace it. That way it doesn't get all crazy. Let's see. All right now go get your mom's bread knife because that's how we're gonna cut this. We're gonna use Kim's expensive new bread knife. Let's see. Let's hope it works. Oh, like butter. Not too bad. Let's see which side is thicker. So now we're gonna put some spray adhesive onto the board and then add the foam on top of the spray adhesive. Allow it to dry to tack approximately one minute. All right. Gotta work fast. Work it fast. What's going in? White cotton batting. I hope it's big enough. So the next step is to spray the adhesive onto the foam and we're gonna add stick this cotton batting right on top of the foam. You ready? Yeah. Now we're just going to staple down the batting real close to the edge. Okay. So I think I'm just going to I haven't upholstered before so I'm just going to spray it. Tuck these little sides in. It's not that much. I'm just gonna spray and tack it in there. I'm just gonna spray the edges so it'll hold the fabric while we pin it down. What? They can read what I'm saying. Read my lips. I waited till I put the mask on to explain it. Yep. What we've learned is that the corners here are the hardest part. I've watched about five or six different videos on how to tuck these corners. Nothing seems right. None of the tips that I read I can pull off here. Doesn't seem quite right. I know I have too much fabric up here. I know this needs to be trimmed back but I still can't quite get the corners right. So my plan is to tuck and put a little pleat in the corner to give it that more finished look rather than gather. Attach the bottom to the top. We're going to drill some more pilot holes with little countersink action and we're going to come in with a two inch nail, two inch screw. Look it. Just stress that a little bit. Let's do it. I really can't hear myself talk because the cushion is right in my face. Yeah, it's dampening the sound. Would you guys put a hard top on it? We went with a soft top because it's going to go in our bedroom I think. Well I said it was going to go in the family room for the game chair. Oh that's right. I also had considered putting it in the bedroom to hold the clean laundry that I can't fold on time before the next load comes around but I don't want to, what's the word, perpetuate that bad habit. So we're going to put it in the family room so we can have a game room, game night chair. Oh it's time to go. We got a head out but we'll join you next week where we'll do it, build it and make it again.