After 20 minutes in Sketchup, I've come up with a first draft. I have a feeling these angles are going to be the death of me.
So I've been doing a little bit of reading up on attracting certain bird types to your house - I currently have a family of robins that use a small space my gutters create next to my brick house for a nesting platform. I'd like to build a proper nesting platform for them or my state bird a Cardinal (who also perform a nesting platform. I'd like to mount it to my garage so i can watch them from my house. To appease my wife, I'd like to make it in a similar vein as a mid-century modern house in the picture below. Because I'm making a nesting platform I'm going to really need to nail the angle of the roof so it reads as mid-century modern. I'm going to be doing some research into our local Frank Loyd Wright houses and see if there is anything that strikes my fancy.
So I am probably just going to end up using some spray shellac to finish this, but it's been too rainy and humid in my garage for any finish work. I picked this poplar because I loved the stripe of green in the board. The stretcher is some scrap walnut I had hanging around. As you can see from the top photo the top of the stool isn't attached to the legs just yet, I'm going to spray both separately before attaching them with some hardwood dowels. The finished stool is going to be 20" wide and 11 inches tall, I'll post some finished pics when I'm done spraying it!
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