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used in the kitchen to reach those high shelves in the upper cabinets, in the bedroom to get to the closet shell", or elsewhere.

The design that allows these projects to convert from a step stool to a chair, and back again, is both clever and simple, but it's somewhat hard to visualize if you don't have the chair in front of you. Basically, the chair is designed so that there are two sections, linked by a piano hinge. To convert from the step stool to the chair mode, the top section of the stool is pivoted over the lower section, so that the top step of the stool is now resting on the floor. Hopefully, our time-lapse illustration on page 51 w ill help vs ith visuali/ ing the conversion.

(letting Started

Thankfully, building the step stool/chair is considerably easier than trying lo imagine how it works. The most impoi tant parts—the lower and upper sides ( A. B)—are provided as a grid pattern ex.u tl\ as they are to be laid out on your I h\ 12 board. As the Cutting Diagram shows, one of each of the sides is laid out on eai h end of the 1 by 12 board. The wa> to make these four parts is to first lay out oik each of the side sections on the bottom end of the board, exactly as they appear in the grid pattern.

Transferring the Patterns I'here .ire several ways lo accomplish this l ust, if

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