DIY furniture

Each owner of a private house of a city or country type, cottage or personal plot sooner or later faces the need to improve its territory. And this is not about breaking up beds and flower beds, planting trees and shrubs, but arranging comfortable, but at the same time practical, recreation, cooking and eating areas in the fresh air. It is difficult to imagine a landscaped plot without garden furniture, but not everyone can afford to buy it, and it’s much more pleasant to sit down on a handmade bench or dine in the fresh air at a table, the performance of which did not cost you a dime. In this publication, we have collected many options for garden furniture, which you can do yourself. Having only improvised materials, a small set of tools and a great desire to make your site landscaped, comfortable and aesthetic.

In order for garden furniture to appear on your site, which can become not only a reliable object of the exterior, but also a reason for the pride of the owners and the envy of neighbors and guests, not so much is needed - waste material, perseverance, a little imagination, work and effort. In this article you will find examples of the manufacture of garden furniture from wood, building pallets, and household items that were in use.

In order for home-made furniture to organically fit into the existing image of a summer cottage or private courtyard, it is necessary to responsibly approach not only the manufacturing process itself, but also the choice of material. The most versatile and at the same time very malleable from the point of view of processing material is natural wood. The advantage of wood is that it can perfectly fit into any stylistic direction in the design of the landscape. And this can be achieved through a variety of options - from massive furniture made from logs to light and elegant products woven from twigs or twigs.

The advantage of wood for creating furniture with your own hands is that it has many manifestations. You can create a piece of furniture with minimal material processing for the shortest possible time. For example, ordinary hemp can be turned into stools or small table stands. It is enough to make sure that the surface of new garden furniture is perfectly trimmed and safe for use.

You can create garden furniture from branches and twigs ...

Or logs and large timber ...

Even a very small backyard needs garden furniture that you can sit on to enjoy the fresh air, see the sunset or meet the dawn. Well, on the site of a large family or in the courtyard of hospitable hosts, where companies gather, it is absolutely necessary to take into account the possibility of seating several people.

One of the easiest ways to create benches and benches is to use a wooden beam and a cinder block with square holes. A bench or bench is going to be a constructor; you don’t even need to use any tool or mortar, construction glue. The advantage of such designs is not only in ease of installation, but also in portability - you can easily disassemble your piece of garden furniture and move it to another place or put its details in the barn before the new warm season.

If you put soft seats and sofa cushions on a cinder block and timber bench, then an ordinary solid garden bench turns into a convenient, comfortable sofa.

Combining materials for the execution of garden furniture, you can increase the strength and improve the appearance of the products.For example, together with a tree in one or another modification, you can use metal structures, for example, parts of beds (backs, legs).

In the fresh air, any dish seems tastier. Every owner of even a tiny backyard tries to create an atmosphere in which you could have a meal in the open air, even if we are talking about short breakfasts. Depending on the needs and size of your family, you can arrange a small area for short meals or set up a spacious dining table for receiving guests in the fresh air. It is noteworthy that both options can be done on their own.

One of the simplest but at the same time practical ways of organizing a dining group in the fresh air is the manufacture of a table, together with benches. The model shown in the photo will require a minimum amount of material, but it will be quite roomy. The only drawback of such a dining group is that if you need to increase the number of people sitting at the table, then you will only be able to do this in 2 places (you will need chairs or stools).

You can arrange a dining area or segment for short meals (breakfast and afternoon tea) by the type of bar. This is easy to do with the help of building blocks and wooden beams or boards. Only stools for such a countertop need to pick up the bar, with the appropriate height.

Outdoor recreation for everyone is associated with different things. For some, this is a get-together with friends and neighbors, for others, reading on slightly swaying swings, while others really need sunbeds for air baths. For all options for active and not so relaxing, you can make furniture with your own hands, and even from improvised means with minimal cost.

One of the most common ways to create garden furniture for the relaxation area is to use building pallets or pallets. The advantage of such an assembly is its simplicity - wooden blocks are already formed in part of future chairs and sofas. Well, even the owner of the cottage or any other land plot who did not previously hold a hammer in his hands will be able to build a coffee table from pallets. You can even use building glue to hold the elements together.

Another plus of using construction flights for the manufacture of garden furniture is that you can get the material at a very low price or completely free, because we are talking about used products. It will only be necessary to take care of thoroughly cleaning the surfaces, leveling and polishing a little, impregnating the material with antiseptics against decay.

From building pallets you can create whole compositions for a recreation area in the fresh air. It can be a spacious corner complex, composed by the type of sofa, comfortable chairs and a coffee table. It is enough to put soft pillows and seats in armchairs and sofas to arrange a living room setting right on a summer cottage or a personal plot ...

With the help of wooden pallets you can equip the area not only for relaxation, but also for sleep. A summer bed or just a layer of building pallets with a mattress - a great opportunity to create a bedroom in the fresh air - just take care of the canopy over the berth to protect from the sun.

From old pallets it is easy to build a comfortable swing. You can tie them on ropes or chains to the roof of the canopy and gazebos, on the terrace or just under a tall spreading tree with thick branches.

A slightly less popular, but at the same time practical way of arranging a summer cottage garden furniture is the use of wooden building coils. Of these, you can make chairs ...

Children's tables for games, creativity or short snacks ...

In order to make a table with a stand at the base, you don’t need to do anything at all except to clean the surfaces and treat them with impregnations and varnishes ...

The reel table can be equipped with an umbrella and seats arranged in a circle at a comfortable distance from each other ...

Another common material for creating garden furniture is second-hand wooden barrels. Very ergonomic chairs, tables and coasters are made of them.

In addition to seats of various modifications, a summer cottage or a private courtyard needs other garden furniture. Of course, it all depends on the needs of the owners - someone needs a pencil case for storing the tool, others need a table, a ladder or stand, a box for storing a hose or shelf for installing plants in pots. We offer several practical and aesthetic ideas that are simple to implement and easy to operate.

As storage systems, it is convenient to use benches, sofas, furniture corners and pouf chairs with folding seats. Inside such furniture, you can also store appliances for rest and meals, as well as necessary garden tools. In order to increase the comfort level of outdoor recreation, it makes sense to use removable soft seats for benches and sofas. Choose materials that will be easily washed in a washing machine and ensuring a respectable rest will pass with minimal effort.

Storage systems can act, among other things, and sun loungers. In fact, they are large rectangular boxes, the honor of the top cover of which can rest on the stand and become the back.