They won’t win any design awards, but I think there’s a certain elegance in a project where $0 in new materials plus two and a half hours of work – with one hand still in a cast, at that – yields two sturdy, comfortable, durable benches. Even better, this stuff is all reclaimed from the ill-starred duck coop project, so every pound of wood used is a pound of scrap I won’t have to pay for at the transfer station.

The white paint is unfortunate; at some point in the future I plan to paint them all some unremarkable reddish brown color, then sand the tops smooth and finish the bare cedar with linseed oil.