Make your garden more comfortable with original, handmade benches
Our gardens are spaces we should be able to enjoy at any time of the year, and it's nice to make them even more comfortable by adding benches at strategic points for us to sit on. A bench, in fact, can become features in the green corners of our gardens. Used like this, benches allow us to enjoy the beauty of our garden's nature nooks in every season. We must choose a bench that has a suitable shape and is made of materials blend in well into the landscape, enriching it in a harmonious way. And it should be positioned in such a way that, every time you sit on it, you can enjoy a panoramic view the nature in your garden.
To rest on a bench and admire some of the garden's trees, shrubs or flower beds, or perhaps just to sit in the cool shade of a large plant in summer, benches are always useful outdoor furniture, and you can create many different types with DIY projects like those shown below:
If you have any old chairs that you don't know what to do with, you can join them together and turn them into a bench to use outside. And you can paint them any color you want.
There is no shortage of ideas that take advantage of using wooden pallets, and you can even make a benchfrom them with a comfortable backrest on which to recline.
With wooden pallets or other pieces of wood that you can recycle or buy, you can create more refined bench models, like this one whose seat is decorated with boards arranged in a herringbone pattern.
Bricks and a stone slab: it is beautiful, rustic and useful even just for placing vases on it, as if it were a low wall.
A more basic and geometric design: using hollow concrete bricks (breeze blocks) and wooden beams just takes a moment - and minimal expense - to create sturdy and spacious benches.
The uniting of concrete and wood is always a winning combination.
Online you can find many DIY projects to be inspired by to create even more innovative designs, such as a bench that has a vase on one side of it!
If you like more rustic and natural patterns, you can use untreated, shaped logs.
When using logs it is always a good idea to seal the wood against the elements with oil. The most used sealants are linseed, walnut or tung oil (Chinese wood oil).
Trunks and wooden slabs that still have their natural forms are very striking with their rustic appeal.
And using these materials you can make models with a more modern and eclectic design.
And what would you say then to incorporating the bench into the wooden cladding of one of the walls of your house?
Have you ever made garden benches as a DIY project?
