A guided weekend build experience for two. You'll build a pair of cedar lounge chairs together — every curve traced, every cut planned, professional tools at your door. No experience required.
Fig. 01 — The pair, at golden hour
Deep, contoured cedar lounge chairs with fanned backs, wide flat arms, and a seat that drops four inches from front to back so you actually lean into it. Designed by pros to be buildable by beginners in one day — and to look like they weren't.
Not a set of four for guests. Two chairs, facing out, for the two of you. That's the whole idea — and it's why you build them together.
The sweep of the arms and the contoured seat come from patterns you trace with a tape and a pencil, then follow with a jigsaw. Slow, forgiving, weirdly satisfying.
Rounded arm edges you'll run your hand along every time you sit down. Leave the cedar raw to silver, or stain it Sunday.
One box arrives at your door with everything except the lumber — and we hand you a pre-filled cart for that.
In the box · Complete Weekend package
In your dashboard & Field Kit
The Milwaukee kit alone retails for $900+ — and it's yours for every project after this one.
No mystery, no "figure it out." You always know what's next, how long it takes, and which tool is in your hand — and every step has a role for each of you, so nobody's standing around holding the tape measure.
Pick up your thirteen cedar boards (the cart's pre-filled — it all fits in a normal car), stage your space, check the weather window, batteries on the charger. Ten boxes to tick, and Saturday runs like clockwork.
Checkpoint 01 · snap a photo of your staged setupUnbox the tools, lay out the boards, make your first cut by 9:30 — on a practice board, not a real one. Cut one feels scary. Cut three feels good. That's the hard part of the day, done before ten.
Legs, seat slats, crosspieces — all straight crosscuts, all marked on the cut cards. Assembly-line it: one of you marks, one of you cuts, then swap. Both chairs' worth in one go.
The part people are nervous about and end up loving. Mark the dots from the offset table, connect them into a smooth line, then let the jigsaw walk it. Slow saw, forgiving wood, no rush.
Checkpoint 02 · every part cut and laid outMandatory. You're builders now — builders take lunch.
Sides, legs, crosspieces, then the seat slats and the back fan. Somewhere in here it stops being parts and becomes a chair. Sit in it immediately — that's an order.
Checkpoint 03 · first chair assembledYou already know every step. This is the hour where you feel like you've done this before — because you have, two hours ago.
Round over the arm edges — that soft edge is the difference between "lumber" and "furniture." Then carry them where you want them, pour something cold, and sit. Take the photo. You'll want it.
An easy, satisfying hour or two if you want the richer finish. Or just sit in your chairs. You've earned it either way.
Final checkpoint · both chairs done by 8pm SundayPlenty of places will sell you a saw or a PDF of plans. Nobody else hands you the whole experience — engineered so two beginners actually finish, together, in a day.
You've done the restaurants. This weekend ends with sawdust in your hair and two chairs you built together.
The guide assumes nothing. If you can follow a recipe, you can build this.
You'll spend a Saturday off your phone with your hands busy — and end it with proof.
You already own the tools and you'd rather design your own. Respect. Send this to a friend who's always saying "I wish I could do that."
Same two chairs, same guided Saturday. The only question is whether the pro tools come with it.
The Complete Weekend
$1,495
Free shipping · Lumber (about $200) via your pre-filled cart
Never held a saw? This one's built for you.
The Experience
$349
Dashboard access today · Field Kit in the mail · Lumber (about $200) via your cart
You'll need a drill, a circular saw, a jigsaw & an orbital sander.
The Finished Promise, on both packages: do the Friday prep, follow the build sequence, and hit the four photo checkpoints. If you're still not sitting in your chairs by 8pm Sunday, your next Weekend Build experience is free — plus a rescue plan for exactly where you stopped, and free replacements for anything we sent that was defective.
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Yes — that's the whole point. Every cut is planned, marked, and shown on video before you make it. Your first three cuts are practice cuts on scrap, so by the time it counts, you've already done it. And if anything feels off mid-build, ask the Build Coach — an AI coach trained on every step of this exact build. Send a photo of what's in front of you and it tells you your next move in seconds, at 7am or 11pm.
They're the part people dread and then brag about. You don't freehand anything: each curve comes as a table of measurements. Mark a dot every two inches, connect the dots into a smooth line, then let the jigsaw follow it — it's the slowest, calmest saw in the box. And a curve that wanders slightly is invisible once it's sanded. No two handmade chairs match; that's the point of them.
About $200 for thirteen cedar boards — four 1x6s and nine 1x4s, all eight-footers, including a spare. We hand you a pre-filled cart, so there's no wandering the aisles guessing. It fits in a normal car with the seats down.
The build is about seven hours for two people, including lunch. Beginners finish by dinner. Staining is an optional Sunday hour if you want the richer color. We designed it around one honest Saturday — not a "weekend" that eats a month.
Simple test: do you own — or can you borrow by Saturday — a drill, a circular saw, a jigsaw, and an orbital sander? Then The Experience ($349) is everything you need. If you don't, take The Complete Weekend. The jigsaw especially matters on this build: every curve comes from it, so it's not an optional tool the way it is on a straight-cut project.
Because you keep everything. The Milwaukee M18 FUEL kit alone retails for over $900 — those are the tools contractors buy, not disposable hardware-store specials. Add every bit, blade, and disc pre-selected so there's zero guessing, plus the guided build itself, and you end the weekend with pro tools, two chairs, and the confidence to use both again.
A driveway, a patio, a garage, or a flat patch of yard — anywhere you can set up sawhorses and walk around a chair. The chairs themselves are about 31 inches wide and 35 tall, and they're furniture: build them anywhere, then carry them wherever you want them. No digging, no concrete, no permits, nothing attached to your house.
Ask the Build Coach — it knows this build cut by cut, it's never asleep, and it never makes you feel dumb for asking. Describe the problem or send a photo and you'll have your next step in seconds. And here's the backstop, the Finished Promise: your weekend has four photo checkpoints (staged Friday, all parts cut, first chair together, both done). Hit them, follow the sequence, and if you're still not sitting in your chairs by 8pm Sunday, your next Weekend Build experience is free — plus a rescue plan with the exact steps from wherever you stopped. If a part we sent was defective, we replace it free, full stop.
On The Complete Weekend: nothing to hunt for — even the tape measure, pencils, and speed square are in the box. Your pre-filled hardware cart includes the three site items you'll pick up with your lumber: sawhorses (or use a sturdy table you own), safety glasses, and ear protection. On The Experience: your own drill, circular saw, jigsaw, and orbital sander, plus the measure-and-mark basics and the same site items.
The guide is built safety-first: eye and ear protection are in your hardware cart, every tool gets a two-minute safety walkthrough card, and the design deliberately avoids the cuts pros wouldn't hand a beginner — there are zero rip cuts in this build, because ripping a board lengthwise is where beginners with a circular saw get into trouble. Every part is a full stock board width. Read the guide, wear the gear, take your time.
Years from now, nobody remembers another Saturday on the couch. Everybody remembers the weekend you built the chairs you're sitting in.
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