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Simple DIY Fur Bench

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Woohoo, we made it to another Fri-yay! This week wasn’t bad at all, but I’m just always ready for the weekend. I’m especially ready for this weekend. Luke and I are escaping for a LONG weekend to Pittsburgh. The Chiefs are playing there so we are road tripping. It’s a pretty good drive from us, but I don’t want you to worry because I have a list of places to stop at. I’m hoping to have quite a bit of fun at some flea markets. A few readers suggested some mid-century stores between Indianapolis and Pittsburgh and I can’t wait to stop. We are driving our SUV (just in case). =)

Today though, I want to share a fun Simple DIY Fur Bench. I don’t know about you but when the weather starts to feel a bit crisp, I’m ready for chunky blankets, a little fur and sweats. Definitely sweats.

Make this Simple DIY Fur Bench for a fraction of the cost of buying one!

Doesn’t it just bring all the good winter feelings to you?

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Rustic Modern DIY Wood Bench with Hairpin Legs

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Hi Guys! Hope you all had a terrific, football-filled weekend. =) Our weekend included lots of football, but lots of relaxing around the house as well. It was definitely a much-needed reset from the past month.

Today, I wanted to share a project that I made for the cabin… a rustic modern DIY Wood Bench with Hairpin Legs. I knew I wanted to do something with the leftover wood from the trim install. I thought about it for a bit and then decided to make a bench.The rough-cut cedar is exactly that… rough-cut; which gave me all kinds of issues. BUT, you should totally use this bench tutorial to make yourself a fun bench sized to whatever you want. A word to the wise though, it’s much easier to use wood that’s exactly the same size. I’m probably making it sound worse than it was. Actually, nope, it was bad. Take my advice and use boards with the same dimensions.

Enough jabbering though…

Rustic Modern DIY Wood Bench with Hairpin Legs

Don’t you just love that grain?

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DIY Planter Pot Table Combo for the Patio

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Are you the type of person that’s glad it’s Monday or not? I’m not really sure where I fall. I definitely like structure, so if the weekends lasted longer they might bother me. But, I could take a three day weekend every week with my boys at home. I could definitely handle that. Random thoughts for Monday, right? How was your weekend? Do anything special? We spent most of the weekend moving my mom (she just bought a new house) and moving some our furniture back in from the sunroom. It was definitely a full weekend.

Have you been catching up on Snapchat? I love snapping and chatting over there (I’m biggerthan3ofus). There’s no pressure for anything to be pretty – it’s just real life. Anyways, pop over there if you want to see more of us; or more of my crazy, weird personality; or just more of what I’m thinking about and doing. Today though, I want to share a tutorial that I did for eHow. I made a DIY Planter Pot Table Combo for the Patio. 

Make this Patio Table with Planters - full how-to provided!

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DIY Plywood Plant Stand On Wheels

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It’s the second week of patio spruce-up on a budget. Check out the first week of patio spruce-up if you missed it. Today, I want to share a much needed but SIMPLE project – a DIY Plywood Plant Stand On Wheels. We have a few larger planter pots and need to be able to move them around a bit on the patio. Those suckers are heavy, so we needed a rollable plant stand. If you’ve been a reader since last year, then you know that we created this DIY Plant Stand:

DIY This Heavy-Duty Rolling Plant Stand out of A Tree Stump!

Today’s project has the same idea but is made using scrap wood. We tend to have scrap plywood around and I was curious to see if I could solve a problem and use some of it. The outcome isn’t quite as cute as the DIY stump roller, but it’s functional and definitely more heavy-duty than the plant stand rollers that you find at the hardware stores.

Ready to see?

DIY Scrap Wood Plant Stand

Before we get into the tutorial, how sad is our money tree? I could never find a good home for it over the winter and it just lost more and more leaves. I’m hoping it will perk up over the summer.

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Built-in Banquette Tutorial

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Today’s the day for the built-in banquette tutorial. I’ve been putting off writing this, because these types of posts end up being a monster to write. But, I can’t put it off any longer. =) Also, I just announced last night on Instagram that we put the Highland Cow in a shop on Society6. You can now buy prints and pillow covers. We are pretty excited. Anyways, let’s get back to the DIY banquette with back (which we are using the wall as the back support).

Modern and Eclectic Eat-In Kitchen Reveal with a DIY Plank Wall and DIY Bench Seat including step by step instructions for banquette seating

*Visit our shop on Society6 to purchase the Highland Cow art.

This was a simple build and really could be accomplished over the course of two weekends. We drug it on (like usual) but if you really go on it.. then you could definitely have it completed over the course of the two weekends.

As far as price goes, I kept some receipts but not all of them. Oops. We actually used some scrap wood for parts of the frame, which you will see in just a bit. So, if you had a bit of scrap wood sitting around… then I think this build would come in around $120 or so. The padding, foam and fabric came to around $100. So, in total, this project came in right around $220.

In all projects like this, you have to consider how big of a space you are working in. Our DIY banquette ended up spanning the whole open space on our wall, which was just over 10 feet. If you had a smaller area, then of course, you’re price would go drastically down. Just something to keep in mind.

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