Bar Stool Plans
for DIY Bar Seating

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If you have decent woodworking skills, how can you beat Free Bar Stool Plans for your home bar seating? It's not every day you get something for free, but if you need bar stools and can build out of wood, why not take a look at these woodworking plans.

If you are the handy type, and enjoy working with wood, while creating and building things, then what might interest you is building most of the bar furniture and other bar design aspects of your home bar yourself. From the dry or wet bar to the bar table or pub tables and pub chairs, as well as dart boards and even game tables and games themselves...the building projects associated with a home bar can be numerous.

If you are that building and creative type of person, you already know how satisfying it is to build your own projects that you will be proud of and will last for many years. And to use this skill to bring happiness and quality of life to your family, friends, and yourself is very gratifying, indeed.

There are only about a million bar stool styles, bar stool designs, and bar stool themes that could fill about every bar and home bar in the world. But you don't need that many. You only need one bar stool design or idea, and it might just come from the free bar stool plans below.

These bar stool plans are in metric measurements, so you'll need to convert the sizes if you're not familiar with the metric system.

Free Bar Stool Plans - Folding Bar Stool

This particular bar stool can be folded up and hidden away when you don't need it. Once you make that first one, you'll find it very easy to make a whole set for your home bar. It is a fairly difficult bar stool design, however, so a fair amount of woodworking skills is necessary. But we don't always get the perfect ideal bar stool when working with free bar stool plans.

This is also a very contemporary design that uses various types of hardwood. Use the types of hardwood most plentiful in your area.

MATERIALS:
Saw
Drill with a 1/8-inch bit, 1/4-inch bit and countersink bit
Sliding bevel and protractor
Tape measure
pencil

65mm x 20mm tallow hardwood decking: 1 @ 3.9m, 1 @ 3.0m, 1 @ 2.4m 50 x 50mm chipboard screws or similar 6 x 50mm x 1/4-inch gutter bolts, plus washers and locknuts

Total cost for bar stools using these exact bar stool plans: Using mixed hardwood: $30

1) Start by cutting wood as follows. With the 3.9m length, cut 8 @ 420mm long pieces and 1 @ 460mm. All but one of the 8 pieces of 420mm will become the slats for the seat and the backrest. The one left will become the front foot support. The 460mm piece will be the support for the lower rear legs.

2) Cut the side rails out of the 3m length. You will need 2 at 350mm each. They need to have a bevel of 30 degrees cut at each end. (See Diagram 1.)

3) The front legs are then cut from the remainder of the 3m piece, i.e. 2 @ 765mm lengths. Again, a bevel cut of 30 degrees is cut on both pieces as before. (See Diagram 2.) From the same 3m piece, cut off 200mm and bevel the ends as before to a 30-degree angle.

4) Now, from the 2.4m length, cut 2 x 1050mm lengths. These will be the back legs. At one end of both pieces, cut in 60-degree angles, starting 140mm down the wood. The triangular offcuts will become part of the backrest. At the other ends, cut in 30-degree angles.

5) For the assembly, use the 2 side rails and 5 x 420mm slats. Fix the slats evenly apart between the 2 rails and secure in place with 2 screws for each slat. Using the 2 x 200mm offcuts, screw them to the inside of the side rails so that they overhang the edge by 65mm.

6) The legs are assembled by placing the front leg flat on a bench and crossing the back leg over the front ones. Mark out the screw position by measuring 390mm up the short pieces - this will be where the edge of the longer, front legs will start. Drill a 1/4-inch hole and fit a 50mm gutter bolt, washer and locknut. (See Diagram 6.) Note that the short legs (back legs) are bolted to the outside of the longer pieces.

7) After assembling both sides for the legs, you can bolt the seat to the front. (See Diagram 7.) To work out the height of the seat, measure 680mm from the ground up, for the back of the seat. Drill a 1/4-inch hole and fit a 50mm gutter bolt, washer and locknut. Make sure the front edge of the seat lines up with the forward edge of the front legs. Again, drill a 1/4-inch hole and fit a 50mm gutter bolt, washer and wing nut.

8) Attach the small wedge-shaped piece to the backrest of the stool. Drill and screw the wedge onto the top of the back legs so that they sit flush with the legs and create a straight line for your back to rest on. Use one screw at the top from behind the seat and one from the front at the bottom.

9) Screw the two backrest slats on so that they sit flush with the top and bottom of the wedge that you have just attached. Next, make the cross members. One will act as the footrest at the front. The 420mm piece goes on the front legs, 150mm up from the bottom. The 460mm piece goes on across the back legs, 150mm up from the floor, as well. Sit the stool on a flat surface while measuring.

10) Stain your bar stool with your choice of color.
The bar stool plans above are meant to be used as a suggestion. Feel free to change or alter parts of the plans if you see the need to do so, or if you just want a different design.

Enjoy your bar stool plans and enjoy your homemade home bar stools when they are done. And when your done building bar stools, have a seat in one of your beautiful bar stools and have yourself a drink or two. You'll deserve it.