Corner Banquette Makeover + How to Redirect Air Vents Under Cabinets

All of the information to give a corner banquette a new search with paint, additionally how to install an air vent redirect beneath a cupboard.

At last!

Following months of hunting for a secondhand corner banquette on Facebook Marketplace, driving just about 4 hours spherical-vacation to select it up, transferring a doorway, installing LVP flooring, redirecting an air vent, and portray for times, we have the slight makings of breakfast nook!

I managed to shoot the banquette’s new digs proper just after the electrician remaining from installing those sconce bins and relocating for the linear chandelier, so forgive the dust. 😉

I’m still ready on reupholstered cushions, but even “naked” this banquette presently has us envisioning so quite a few exciting relatives dinners gathered all around the desk with quite a few a lot more loved types squeezed into this minor place!

How to Redirect Air Vents Less than Cabinets

One particular small obstacle we had to tackle right before producing the shabby corner banquette seem chic was rerouting the air vent on the flooring that was positioned ideal beneath the underneath seat the cupboards.

(There usually has to be at the very least just one obstacle or it wouldn’t be a residence improvement project, would it? Murphy’s Law each individual time.)

If you’re ever setting up constructed-in cabinets, cupboards, a window seat, or a corner banquette like ours, you unquestionably just cannot cover and dismiss any vents the air stream ought to be redirected to hold the place adequately heating and cooling.

How to Put in an Air Vent Redirect

We applied this air vent redirecting kit referred to as a Toe Ductor (it is effective for wall registers and baseboard registers much too).

The kit lets you to drive the air circulation beneath your designed-in home furniture. (Not sponsored… just a cool detail we have found and applied for DIYs in excess of the decades.) Make positive you allow at least 4 inches of house beneath your cabinet or constructed-in.

We did the exact same underneath the crafted-in cabinets and window seat for our neighbors’ rec place makeover past year. In hindsight, I would paint that vent grate to blend it.

Materials

• Toe Ductor Package (wall vent kit right here or baseboard vent kit here)
• Drill
• 1/2″ wooden screws
• Oscillating instrument
• Duct tape

Phase 1 – Attach Box to Floor Vent

Include the floor vent very first with the Toe Ductor box and screw into position.

Move 2 – Measure and Slash for the Toe Kick Cover

Decide in which you want to area the new air vent on your designed-in, evaluate, and mark. Applying the oscillating software, minimize out a rectangular area.

Stage 3 – Attach the New Vent

On the bottom of the rectangular gap you just minimize, attach the new vent with screws to the toe kick.

Phase 4 – Connect Versatile Duct

Use the delivered metallic strip to connect the adaptable duct to the back again of the vent. (Our metallic strip place up a little bit of a fight, so we reinforced it with duct tape.)

Action 5 – Attach Flex Duct to Box and Situation Cupboard/Designed-In on Major

Extend out the adaptable duct underneath the corner banquette developed-in, and attach it to the box on the ground with the kit’s metallic stripping. We reinforced ours once again with duct tape so no air escapes.

Put the cupboard or crafted=in on leading of the box and anchor to the wall as you’d like. You can attach the toe kick grate to the front just after painting.

Stage 6 – Prep and Paint

I went by means of my standard cupboard portray process considering that this corner banquette is incredibly considerably like a piece of cabinetry.

• Sand with an orbital sander working with medium/wonderful grit
• Vacuum and tack fabric absent dust
• Use liquid sander deglosser
• Primary with shellac based primer
• Paint with enamel satin

Test out that deep, desaturated olive eco-friendly! It blends beautifully with our far more vivid hunter inexperienced kitchen area cabinets although however sensation like a neutral. Like! The coloration is Benjamin Moore Southern Vines.

We anchored the new-to-us corner banquette to the wall even though we were at it so the little ones can get rough and rowdy on this bench all they want.

The Painted Corner Banquette

I are not able to wait around to see some rather striped cushions on this bench soon, but it appears so good previously!

This linear chandelier is great for the slender rectangular dining desk that will go listed here quickly. Mainly because this house is windowless, and this corner feels so darkish, we additional sconce bins to give it some excess enable.

I prepare to go back and paint the vent include the identical Benjamin Moore Southern Vines to mix with the relaxation of the corner banquette so it will virtually disappear.

Are you setting up to see the vision choose form in this little dining nook? Are we feelin’ the bench seating situation? We have an affordable wall therapy prepared subsequent to insert some excess dimension that I cannot wait to demonstrate you!

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