"She made a green dining bench in her kitchen. "We previously had a breakfast bar in this space which we rarely used, and it meant there wasn't much space for our small dining table," Henrietta says. "It felt like a poor use of space." Her family of four needed more room for them to all fit around the table - plus more storage."
"This was Henrietta's first time working with lumber for a DIY project, and her husband helped, too. "I gained a lot of confidence in using tools like a drill or saw," she says. She cut the lumber to size by hand and used a drill and brackets to create the base, which was challenging because the kitchen floor wasn't perfectly level."
A breakfast bar was removed to create space for a green dining bench to allow a family of four to fit around the table and gain storage. Three IKEA BESTA cabinets were used as the bench body and placed atop a timber frame built as a sturdier support base. Lumber was cut by hand and assembled with a drill and brackets, with adjustments required due to an uneven kitchen floor. Tongue-and-groove paneling was attached to the bench exterior and wall to achieve a built-in look, and an MDF seat top completed the bench.
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