A New Life for an Old Bench #8: Phase 2 - storage and heft
Well, it’s been 2 years and I’ve had some time with this gift of a bench. I’ve had the opportunity to learn some of its strengths and some of it weaknesses. The first weakness, and the one I will be focusing on in this entry is primarily its heft, or rather the lack thereof. Just as a memory jog, here’s where we left off with the restored bench. It looks pretty, but in use I’ve found when pushing through some strokes I move the bench. I’ve addressed this a bit by putting the edge of my floor mat under the front feet, but it still happens. So I’ve decided I want to make a bank of drawers under the bench. This will do a few things...