This weekend, in addition to watching Germany prevail over Argentina while drinking weissbier and hefeweizens, I built my college-age sister an outdoor bench for her slightly sketchy gas-station-turned-apartment. I guess if you have a roof over your "driveway," you might as well hang out outside.
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| Detail of the leg construction. |
Three horizontal 2x4s connect the two sets of legs, but the seat slats are 2x1s, which flex when you sit on them. My wife and sister were skeptical about the strength, so to prove it was sturdy, I jumped up and down on the bench.
This is the first time I used a Behr product to finish a project of mine. I usually use Minwax or Varathane. In general I'm not a fan of two-in-one products that promise to both stain and seal; stain + poly just doesn't have as much open time as I like, so it dries too quickly. This was only slightly less true with the BEHR PREMIUM® Semi-Transparent Weatherproofing All-In-One Wood Stain & Sealer. (Talk about a name that just rolls of the tongue.) But it was the only in-store way to get the blue stain that my sister wanted. There are definitely areas, though, where the stain dried too much to achieve a consistent application, but with the dark color and the large grain of the yellow pine, you don't really notice them.
On to the photos:
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