8 in. X 4 ft. 8 in. available, an important step saver is the old standby of two benches and a table seating four people for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The construction of this compact dining nook (Figure 4.38) is extremely simple, involving a minimum of tools. The rear inside vertical edges of the long sides of the benches shown in Figure 4.38 are rabbeted to take corresponding rabbets cut in both ends of each of the backpieces, before the side ends are glued up. The cleats for the seats are screwed on 16% in. from the bottom edges, where the foot cleats are also attached from the inside; meanwhile the seats are glued up. One half of the leg pattern can be laid out on one table leg piece, and after the outline is traced, both pieces can be sawed simultaneouslv. After thev are sanded, thev are glued up and the bottoms cleated: the tops must be clamped. When the sides have dried they are cut to pattern, sanded, and the backs . BUILTIN FURNITURE AND CONVENIENCES 285 Lumber List Pieces Thickness, in inches Width, in inches Length, in inches Description 4 % 9 4i Sides, benches 4 % 9 24 Sides, benches (fronts) 6 И 8 43 Backs, benches 4 % 7 42 Seats 8 H 14 Cleats, seats and bench bottoms 1 и 26 40 Top, table 4 % 21 Cleats, table top and leg bottoms 4 % 11 29 Legs, table 2 n 22 36 Stretchers, table Fig. 4.38. Breakfast nook. screwed into their rabbets. The seats are fastened to the top of their cleats and to the bottom of the back, from the rear. To assemble the table it is only necessary to screw the legs to the outside edge of the cleats. The stretchers pass through their mortises in the legs and are keyed by Угт. dowels, through holes drilled tightly against the outer leg surfaces. Snack Bar. A modern development of the breakfast nook, the snack bar, takes its form from the quicklunch counters prevalent throughout the country. It can be of most elementarv design, built against anv wall or alcove, as previously noted. Another popular form extends into the kitchen, at right angles to a wall. ith its outer corners rounded into a smooth half circle, so that it can be used as 2 86 FURNITURE MAKING AND CABINET WORK Courtesy Western Pine Association Fig. 4.380. Builtin planning center in a modern kitchen. a mixing or stacking counter between meals. Its top is usually covered with colored linoleum, to blend with the decorative scheme, held in place by rich chromium or aluminum banding around the counter's edges. Longlegged bar stools can be pushed underneath when not in use. These are of simple design, being little more than painted bookkeeper's stools with upholstered tops covered by imitation leather or glazed ginghampatterned chintz. A novel builtin snack bar attached to a 2 in. X 4 in. cleat against the wall, is illustrated in Figure 4.39. Here the stools are in reality chairs, whose backs are built to form a continuous front when they are pushed against a longitudinal cleat along the underside of the counter.