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Greenman Farm Stony Creek, NY
Adirondack Chairs
Click on the first photo below to learn how we built Adirondack chairs from scratch!
Step One, get yourself a kit with the pre-cut templates. See: https://www.rockler.com/rockler-classic-adirondack-chair-plan-with-templates
Trace all your wood pieces with the template and begin cutting them out.
Tools/machines needed: band saw, router, chop saw, hammers, screw driver (with drill bit and counter sink bits), hand sanders, a Dremel, a Japanese saw and a paint sprayer.
We were making three additional chairs from the one Tim made at the Adirondack Folk School in Lake Luzerne, NY
Then we got all our pieces sort of organized. (By the looks of our garage, it is a hot mess)
Slats for the backs of the chairs
Starting to put them together
Almost there!
Done with our second chair!
Side view
No pictures of using the counter sinking drill bit, but it makes the hole small enough for the screw, but wide enough for the plugs, which we hand-made on the band saw and still have all our appendages.
We glued and added the plugs
We used both the Japanese saw (seen here) as well as a Dremel to remove the extra plug.
It makes for a nicer look!
3 out of 4 done! the far right (yellower) one is the one Tim made at the Adirondack Folk School.
4 out of 4 done!
Next the painting. Because Janine had a lot of extra exterior paint from painting her winter green man, we decided to paint the chairs "Polar Bear White". These chairs will stay cool in the hot sun.
Painting the chairs. Because of the quickness of the paint sprayer, we got this done over a couple of hours!
Done!
Pretty!
Next it was time for Janine to decorate them. We chose a "Misty Mountain" stencil theme. Stencils from Cutting Edge Stencils. See: https://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/products/pine-mural-stencils-tree-stencil-forest-wallpaper-mountain-murals
These little ones were from Hobby Lobby and were not awesome.
Use "Repositional Tacky Spray" to hold the stencil into place while painting.
She then used light-to-dark paints, starting with Polar Bear white and getting progressively darker.
Starting with the lightest color high up (and in the far background of the mountains), she painted the first set of mountains very light, and used the smallest trees with the lightest colors first,
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