My wife asked me to build a bench for our family room. While she was away on a trip last week I built this Nantucket bench. I found the plans for this bench in the March 2005 (vol. 26/No. 151) Woodsmith magazine. It is fairly simple to build and yet it makes a nice project that could easily fit in with many home decor's. I decided to paint the bottom black and so I built that part out of poplar. The seat is made out of hard maple and stained with a pecan stain that matches our cabinets.