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I needed a neat small bench at the front entrance of our home, one that didn’t take up much leg room – so rather than using a chair or bigger bench, I decided to repurpose an old coffee table! It was a lot easier and simpler than I thought it was going to be –…
In this article, I’ll discuss how I made a sturdy bench that could be used in the garden, on a stoop/porch or in a rustic dining area.
I built this wooden bench outside the kitchen door in around 2014-15, and later thought if I added doors it might make a nice little storage area for gardening tools and seeds and so on. Plain doors on hinges would’ve worked, but they would’ve taken up more space to open and would’ve clashed with the…