How To Make A Modern Wood Patio Chair | I Saved $$$!

In this video I'm showing you how to make an Outdoor Lounge Chair, that would work great indoors too! It can even be modified to be a sofa. This chair is a wonderful blend of modern design with a relatively easy DIY approach, and affordable too. The material is easily accessible and you can build it in a weekend for a fraction of the cost of a store bought chair. Build a comfortable chill spot that satisfies those dreamy modern, midcentury lines.

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Erin Longfellow

I'm Erin Longfellow and I'm a maker, DIYer, builder, designer and content creator. My goal is to help you learn that you too can build or DIY what I make, or anything you need, with easily acessible tools and materials. On this channel you're going to find different builds and designs with a modern emphasis that are DIY friendly, mostly through woodworking, metalworking, construction and home renovations. Be sure to subscribe and enable all notifications! And thanks for watching!

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[allinkedupalways]

I just built a pallet bed I'm finished and I'm still overwhelmed you make it look so easy and organized

[osamamahmoud]

very nice finish on the wood the lounge chair is very nicely designed and elegant

[MrKyleistheman]

this looks exactly like the CB2 SUNSET TEAK LOUNGE CHAIR. i gotta build a few!

[FigmentsMade]

Clamping the two pieces together to cut away the same amount for the half lap joints is such a good idea! This came out great!

[angelremigiocardenasgutier]

Excelente trabajo Estimada MAESTRA. Felicitaciones por participarme y hacerme conocer su bello arte.

[toddskidmore]

Great plans. I built this for sons room. I lengthened it just a little to make it the same width as his elevated bed to make a couch for lounging. Will be be making more for outdoors. Easy design and build. Thank you so much.

[hmstjohn]

Beautiful and unique chairs. And I love your dog tat.

[dwltwo]

Hey Erin, I bought the plans and built this chair this week. Turned out incredible. Functional, modern and comfy. Thanks a lot! Awesome tutorial.

[jhunitec]

Hey there, just wanted to say thanks for your vids and plans I have brought a few. They are great ! I'm from New Zealand and really enjoy the chair and your coffee table! I have built both and there awesome, thank you !

[bhaskarbalachander]

I was looking for plans to build this, you're a life saver, this is awesome!

[DavidPaulNewtonScott]

Your crack joining glue looks just the job for an idea I have wanted to do for a while. Here so here goes get some green wood and machine it roughly to the desired shape. Deliberately dry it the wrong way put it out in the sun or in and oven and dry it in a couple of hours. It will end up full of splits and shakes. Now fill them all with you glue but with added epoxy resin colours I would go for black or clear red. You are going to end up with some sort of spalting effect. If anyone asks you what it is make up a name like the rare New Hampshire Red Speckle Maple.

[IntentionalGains]

Came across this project on Pinterest. Liked the style of the design. The plug cutter was a new tool for my eyes to see! Enjoyed the video. Subscribed!

[stevedockery]

I've just seen the chair video and girl those are very very sharp. You should be selling them. I don't think you would have any problem moving them. Great work. Thanks, Steve

[FredMcIntyre]

The chair turned out great Erin, awesome job! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

[reforzar]

Photos always on point. Looks like a comfy lounge chair. I bet you’ll be spending lots of time on those.

[DavidPaulNewtonScott]

I love cedar but it is expensive in the UK I am planning on making a three piece suite similar to this but for indoors in the Philippines. We don't have cedar here but we have a slightly harder wood red lawaan. Difficulty getting wood here because of logging bans so I may just suck it up on the hardness. I think if you can get away with half lap joints in a project you should, you can basically walk them into place. Take a bit of wood off until you get them to fit perfectly.

[phasegeo]

Your video quality and instruction is excellent. Great project and great work!

[ThomasitaGIsais]

Have you ever thought about attaching a side table to your chair, that would be amazing 🤩

[EthanCarterDesigns]

Such a cool design and fantastic video as always Erin! The way you got the 50 degree cut was so genius!

[iainf]

Awesome video Erin, so many clever touches from cameras fixed to materials to close ups of the process. Excellent easy to follow tutorial 👍🏻 cant wait to make one 😉👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻