Chairs….

Are actually pretty easy to build when you have a plan. After we built the table we’ve been waiting to build chairs until after we had a plan for chairs. Ana (knock off wood) finally posted a plan for chairs and I got to work. Tomorrow I’m having 7 people over for dinner and I have only have 4 chairs, I had a problem!
The plans call for 2x2’s for the structure but the 2x2’s at Lowes and Home Depot looked terrible so I left a comment for Ana and she wrote me back in just a few minutes suggesting gluing 2 1x2’s together! Excellent idea! I headed back to Home Depot this morning and got all the extra wood. So far I’ve spent around $80 to make 3 chairs and I still have a good bit of wood left. Using the Kreg Jig to make pocket holes…. well it’s just plain awesome. I love that thing. One day I’d like to upgrade to the professional one because it will make things a little faster. I did buy one of the Kreg clamps for this project and that is a lot easier than screwing the jig to the wood every time I need to make a pocket hole.
The wood cut and pocket holed for 2 chairs.

Using the jig makes A LOT of saw dust! The garage is a mess! Don’t you love our “saw horses”. One day we’ll get around to getting more stable and sturdy ones.

Front of chair (I made this last night with the 2x2’s before I went to buy the 1x2’s this morning. I just didn’t take pics again today)

Back of chair

Without the back rest.

With the backs but no seats.



I’m going to cushion and cover the seats but I don’t have the time to do all of that before tomorrow so right now I’m using whatever scrap wood I had to make the seat and I’m going to put a towel over the seats so we don’t end up with splinters in out butts! That would be no fun for anyone!!! Since I’m going to change the seats I didn’t put the extra support in the inside corners of the seats, I figured they would be good for 1 night with out them.

When I get back from my time in GA I’ll sand and stain them. They are a little rough around the edges in some spots right now. When I’m done they will be the same Dark Walnut as the table.
I started working on  the chairs at 12:30, I already had the all the wood but the front and back legs cut for 1 chair at that point. I finished them and walked back inside at 5:10. So I don’t think that was too bad. It would have been a lot quicker if the boy had been home so one of us could have worked on pocket holes while the other cut wood.