{"id":631,"date":"2011-05-08T20:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2011-12-01T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:00:17","slug":"building-the-banquette-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/building-the-banquette-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"building the banquette frame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having eliminated the pesky electrical outlets, it was time to start building. I started by screwing a 2×4 into the studs at 15″ high – this’ll support the top, and gave me a level line to match, since my floor is definitely not level. I’d already created a drawer box, so I screwed that to the 2×4, with a scrap piece left over from the kitchen to make the spacing come out right. Then I just created a front frame with two long 2x4s and 3 shorter ones, which I screwed to the perpendicular wall and the drawer box’s other side. This is hard to explain in words – let me sum up with a photo: <\/p>\n

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So that’s one side of the banquette framed. Then I built the other side in a similar way, though I needed more cross-pieces since I didn’t have the drawer box, and I wanted to make sure it’s stable for the lid that’ll be hinged. There was a moment where I had this cool structure and I thought for a moment about how cool it would be as a cantilevered bench. And then I remembered that I am not an engineer, and I want to be able to actually sit on this thing:
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So I kept building:
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Once I had a solid structure, I cut the sides to size and installed them. The drawer end is pretty obviously not square because of the slope of the floor, but I figure you’ll only notice it if you’re really looking. I hope. The lid in this shot isn’t attached at all – I was checking the overhang and working out what lengths I need. <\/p>\n

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Speaking of lengths – have a size reference:
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So that’s my stopping point for today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having eliminated the pesky electrical outlets, it was time to start building. I started by screwing a 2×4 into the studs at 15″ high – this’ll support the top, and gave me a level line to match, since my floor is definitely not level. I’d already created a drawer box, so I screwed that to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}