Building A Window Seat In A Bay Window With Storage

Build a window seat with storage.

Building a window seat in a bay window with storage.

Attach at each end using 3 1 2 wood screws predrill holes first. A bay window does not look complete without a window seat. An unfinished and underutilized space waiting to be transformed. What s a bay window without a window seat.

This seat was built under a 6 foot wide kitchen window but its design can easily be adapted for any size window in almost any room. This window seat is divine. All those sentiments and more have been going through my head since i finished the building this built in window seat with storage in our bay window. 1 every time my wife encounters a window seat in a house we are visiting on the telly or in a magazine she goes all doughy eyed and wishful.

I used three quarter inch oak plywood. You can build a bay window seat yourself and add a storage space to it very easily. In fact i ve begun calling it the queen s seat in the hopes that it will deter any male folks from claiming it in our household. And with that seat an extra storage place within it makes it ideal for every home with children.

The seat is made up of six kitchen wall cabinets and two 48 inch tall bookcase units which are trimmed with decorative crown molding. A window seat can make a quaint and cozy addition to any room in your home. Measure your bay window for bench seat. Although it requires time and effort you can create a personalized seat with the guide provided below.

Filling up the entire bay in our front room with a window seat felt like quite a committing project but the arguments have been stacking up. Just choose a window with a pleasant view build a frame for. The window seat itself is composed of two 15 inch tall over the refrigerator. You can easily build your own unique window seat using ready made floating cabinet units as a base.

Now measure the distance between the back board and the front board on both top and bottom. Building a window seat is a basic build in project and here s how you can do it. Again if building this for a bay window you ll need to miter each end to 45 degrees most likely. This is a speed square.

Which gave me an overall height of 21 inches. Take into account lid seat thickness.