Building a modern outdoor sofa

My woodworking shop is coming together nicely and one benefit of having everything in the right place is that it makes completing new projects faster and easier.Last week, I decided to tackle I project I've been thinking about since January, which was when I first watched a YouTube build video and immediately ordered a set of cushions from Wayfair. It's a riff on a high-end outdoor sofa from West Elm that goes for over $5,000, the kind you might see in a fancy hotel's pool area. The real sofas look fairly simple and easy to build and since it's easy to find good cushions elsewhere, I followed the Modern Builds plans to replicate it.A lot of prepI thought about building this sofa in a nicer wood than builder grade pine, but good cedar boards at this size were going to run me about $300-400 and I wanted to try building it first with the cheap stuff. If I loved the project, I could always redo it later on with different woods.I went to my local lumberyard and picked out eight 2x10 pine…