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My wife and I recently moved into our first home. Our biggest problem right now is storage.
Hence… the Window Seat.

With no linen closet, a suitable place for blankets and towels had to be made. Also, there was a lot of wasted space under the window.

I started with some scrap 1/2 plywood and made the inner structure including two dividing walls. I then skinned the outside with 3/4 and 1/4 MDF and lined the inside with some old paneling that the previous homeowners left behind. I had to use overlay hinges because of the MDF's weak end grain. As for finishing, I just patched it with drywall compound and painted it.

After a month or two I started to get a little cracking along the edges. I'm assume that happened because of the movement of the house and I made the bench a friction fit between the wall and half wall. In retrospect that probably wasn't the smartest thing to do but, live and learn. It's still very functional and looks pretty good.

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I like the way the base molding ties it into the wall and the partial wall next to it. Thanks for posting.
 

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Great job…
 

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Excellent build!
 

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Very nice looking storage.
 

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Excellent use of the space and re-use of materials.
 

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Nicley done it looks great.
 

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It looks great, you better hope it'st going to be big enough to hold all that "stuff" :)
 
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