kitchen bench / storage area plans

Re: kitchen bench / storage area plans

Steve Yakoban

>Norm Abrams just did a project like that on This Old House. I remember that he mentioned something about the seat back angle that he has determined to be most comfortable. There must be New Yankee plans...

Re: kitchen bench / storage area plans *LINK*

Bill Sams

>here's a link to one I made

http://jwsjoinery.com/jws/bench.html

Seat is about 17" off the floor as a normal chair, the center of the back is approx at neck height when you sit down. The width is approx 54" which will seat 3 people very tight or 3 kids comfortably.

The actual seat slopes back approx 3 degrees, the back slopes back 5 degrees making the inside "butt" corner not quite square and giving the "bench top lid" room to adequately slope back with no chance of falling back on someone's head.

Hope that helps


http://jwsjoinery.com/jws/bench.html

Re: kitchen bench / storage area plans

David Harker

>Norm's were for the "This old house" project in East Boston.

For sure, the seatback angle was 12 degrees.

From memory, the seat tops were 18" deep. I don't recall height from floor, if it was even mentioned.

Here is a distance pic from the "TOH" website, may not help much...