White Entryway Bench made from Kitchen Cabinet

Today's project is a white entryway bench that I made using a repurposed kitchen cabinet.

 

  Do you remember headboard bench with storage drawer from a couple of weeks ago?

 

 

I had originally wanted to pair it with this kitchen cabinet. But it just wasn’t working for me, so that’s when I set the cabinet aside and used the drawer unit for the headboard bench.

 

The cabinet was in my way in the garage, so I decided it needed to be my next project. I thought it would make a great entryway bench or window seat. It just needed a nice sized top. I dug out the top from the big ole table I parted out last year.

 

The top was too deep for an entryway bench, so I ripped it on the table saw.

 

This is the piece I have left after ripping it. I think this would make a great console table top.

How to remove vintage contact paper

Check out that vintage contact paper! I brought out my HomeRight Digital Temperature Heat Gun and got busy. It worked like a charm. I used it on about 160°. Most of it came off in very large pieces with a putty knife.

 

The back of the cabinet wasn’t very nice looking. I found a scrap piece of thin plywood that fit nearly perfectly, but it had a hole that had been cut in it for some reason. To make it easier to patch I put a piece of Gorilla Glue tape on the back side. I attached the plywood with my Ryobi Staple gun.

How To Add Feet to an Entryway Bench

I wanted to lift the bench off the ground slightly, so I went to my stash and found some bunk bed parts. Two of the pieces were still in tact, and 2 of them were the rounded part with the pegs still attached. I cut the pegs off, then cut the rounded piece from the squared off leg. The other 2 pieces were much too short to cut the pegs off with the miter saw. I used my Dremel Multi-Max to do a flush cut on the large peg. I used my new Rockwell JawHorse to clamp the pieces. (LOVE it)

This is how I added feet to the bottom of this entryway bench.

 

• Mark the area of the foot on the bottom
• Drill from the bottom
• Add Gorilla Wood Glue for extra strength
• (not shown) Clamp the foot to get a tight fit
• Secure screws from inside the cabinet through the bottom into the feet

 

 

I attached the former tabletop by screwing from the inside (top) of the cabinet into the tabletop.

 

Time to paint with a Homeright Finish Max Paint Sprayer

Of course, I used  Plaster of Paris,  and latex paint to mix up my favorite chalky paint primer to use in my HomeRight Finish Max.

 

Then I used my regular routine of doing a couple of light coats of the chalky paint as a primer, using the semi-gloss paint as the top coat with 2 light coats.

 

I always start with the underneath side first.

I added some scrap 1x as cleats for a shelf.

 

 Two light coats of semi-gloss with my Finish Max—and the entryway bench was done!

 

I think this little repurposed kitchen cabinet makes a perfect entryway bench, and would also be great as a window seat.

Ohhh, and it would probably work really well as an end of the bed bench! Very versatile, don’t you think?

How would you use a bench like this?

gail

See the other projects seen in the photo here:

Full Sheets into Accessories (red pillows)

Printing on Fabric (Graphics Fairy Image Pillow)

Coat Rack Shelf (made from a cabinet door)

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