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Welcome back into the laundry room for week 2 update. Today, we are building a wall tree bench. This wall is the first thing that people see when they come into our home from the garage, so I figured why not create a fun DIY hall tree bench that could bring some style to the doorway.

Tammy Patina and Paint will be sharing her laundry room update as well, I will have her blog link at the bottom of my page.

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Above is a photo of how the bench wall looks now. Since our laundry room is narrower than it is wide, the bench is a perfect size for the narrow space and still wide enough for us to sit and put our shoes on.

The shelf is a solid piece, I use the hooks to hang clothes on to dry. Instead of starting from scratch, I am going to build the wall tree around both the shelf and the bench.

The inspirational design I found on Pinterest and just had to try my hand in making my wall look like it.

Prepping the bench.

I had to modify the bench a little so it can sit flush against the wall. I removed the back trim from the bench.

Also, I had to notch out the baseboards so the legs can sit flush against the wall as well.

Painting

I gave the shelf, wall and baseboard two coats of Sherwin Williams Functional Gray.

I painted the rest of the walls with Sherwin Williams Natural Linen.

Prepping the boards.

I purchased five 1″ x 4″ x 6′ yellow pine boards at Lowe’s. I cut each board to size, sanded and primed the boards with two coats of Zinssers 123 primer.

Once the primer had dried, I gave the boards and the bench base two coats of the functional gray.

Building the bench wall.

First thing, I sat the bench legs into the notched- out baseboards, attached the legs to the wall with screws. I was lucky, the legs were sitting exactly were studs were. WHEW!

To apply the boards to the wall, I used Power Grab Adhesive to the back of the board, leveled the board in place and nailed the boards to the wall with my nail gun.

The first two boards I ran from the shelf to the baseboard along the door frames. Since the pine board was thicker than the baseboard, I tricked the eye by cutting the boards at a 45-degree angle.

The next board was run across the wall, sitting onto the bench seat.

The last two boards were placed 14 inches apart.

I used paintable caulk to fill in all the seams and painter’s putty to fill in the nail holes and gaps.

I let the caulk and putty dry for 24 hours, then sanded it all smooth. Gave the wall one more coat of paint.

Added the black farmhouse hooks back to the shelf and I painted the light switch covers to match the wall paint. Gave two coats of poly for wear and tear.

I was actually worried about cutting around the alarm control and light switch, but after the painter’s putty, I think I did a fare job.

This wall bench was fairly easy to build; the wall was completed in one day, but drying time for paint, caulk and the last coat of paint it was completely finished in three days.

Let’s take one more look at the wall. I’m really happy with how this DIY Hall Tree bench came out and I hope that y’all try building something for your home.