According to the classic, everything in a person should be beautiful. This also applies to everything that surrounds us. Creating comfort in your country house, do not forget about the backyard. A smooth lawn or flower beds serve as a decoration for your garden, it doesn’t matter at all, the main thing is that there is a place where to sit down and take a break from the bustle of the city and household chores. A garden bench with your own hands is a great opportunity to bring individuality to your summer cottage. Let's look at some interesting options for man-made benches and figure out how to make some of them.
The simplicity of design and the availability of materials allow even a novice craftsman to decide to create such an element of the interior. The best material for creating a garden bench is wood or stone. They will perfectly fit into the design of the infield and create a feeling of unity with nature. It is possible to create a bench from improvised materials. Surely a zealous owner will have a couple of obsolete wooden chairs that can be used.
Whatever you decide to make a bench from, the first thing you need in any case is a design project, and to it the necessary drawings and an assembly diagram. Drawings of garden benches for every taste can be found on the Internet, but if you wish, you can develop them yourself, after all, we all received the primary skills for creating them at school, and the design of the bench is not so complicated.
- height - about 40-50 cm;
- seat width - an average of 55 cm;
- back height - 30-50 cm;
- the height of the armrests from the seat is 15-20 cm.
It is these dimensions that will allow you to comfortably sit on the bench.
Do-it-yourself wooden bench
Consider for a start the option of a simple bench made of wood.
Below is an approximate drawing of a similar bench for a summer residence with your own hands. Its most difficult element is the seat of a slightly concave shape. The dimensions of the elements depend on the final dimensions of the bench. We offer the following sizes of individual elements:
- seat boards - 25x100x1200 mm (4 pcs.);
- legs - 100x100x440 mm (4 pcs.);
- front upper drawers - 25x100x1200 mm (2 pcs.);
- lower front drawers - 25x100x1200 mm (2 pcs.);
- seat board supports - 25x100x400 mm (6 pcs.).
Prepare all the necessary tools and materials and you can start. You will need:
- suitable boards and timber for the manufacture of the seat and bench legs;
- jigsaw;
- grinder;
- self-tapping screws;
- screwdriver;
- antiseptic for wood processing;
- stain;
Operating procedure:
- First of all, cut out all the necessary parts according to the list with a jigsaw.
Pay special attention to the preparation of the seat supports. Before sawing, make the appropriate markup to simplify the task.
- Sections must be treated with sandpaper to protect against splinters.
- When the parts are ready, carefully treat them with an antiseptic to protect the wood from decay and insects. This will extend the life of the product.
- Start the assembly by attaching the seat supports to the upper drawers according to the diagram.
Advice! Make all connections with self-tapping screws. The connection with nails is short-lived, quickly loosens, such a bench will lose stability.
- Attach the seat boards to the resulting frame by deepening the heads of the self-tapping screws.
- Attach the legs last, securing them with the bottom sides for strength.
- An already assembled bench can be covered with wood stain. This tool will help give the tree a noble look of a more expensive material and emphasize its structure.
Such a do-it-yourself bench made of natural material will decorate any garden and will not create gaps in your wallet.
Bench with wooden back
A bench with a back is an option that is undoubtedly more comfortable than a bench. And do not think that doing it yourself is more difficult. You can, for example, create a do-it-yourself ethno-style bench with a backrest from a solid log.
To seat such a bench, you just need to saw a log. The second part of the log can be used to make the legs of the bench. These parts are connected to each other with metal pins.
First, holes are made at the fastener points, the diameter of which is slightly smaller than the diameter of the pin. First, the pin is driven into one part with a sledgehammer at about half the height, then the second part is pushed on top.
Advice! Before striking the material with a sledgehammer, place an unnecessary piece of board on top, this will prevent damage to the surface of the material.
The back of such a bench can be made from a log of a smaller diameter. To fix the back, you can use metal elements or, for lack of availability, take wooden ones.
Do not forget to treat the wood with a protective antiseptic.
Bench - swing
The garden bench can also be made in the form of a swing. This option is especially relevant if you have children, they will obviously like it.
Decided to make a swing with your own hands? In addition to the usual materials for making a bench and a bench, you will need strong fastening material, such as a rope or chain, as well as metal chains and carabiners. It will be possible to decorate the swing with the help of multi-colored pillows made, if possible, from moisture-resistant materials.
Bench - sandbox
Another bench option that will definitely please your children is a sandbox with a lid.
A very convenient option that will fit into the country landscape design, does not take up much space, will appeal to children and adults. Approximate dimensions: 1.20x1.45x0.3 m.
When making such a bench - a sandbox, you can be calm, country cats will not get to the sand, and the ubiquitous magpies will not carry away small toys.
Bench - flower bed
Fans of violent flowering surround themselves with flowers everywhere. For them, we can recommend making a bench - a flower bed.
Even a novice master can do such a bench. It is necessary to build a wooden flooring between the two boxes. Easier - just nowhere. The boxes are filled with earth and favorite plants are planted there. A green corner made in this way will decorate any summer cottage.
Benches from improvised materials
To create a designer bench, it is not at all necessary to purchase material, even if it is inexpensive. You can make an excellent bench from improvised materials. For example, old wooden chairs.
To create such a simple but very elegant bench, assemble a frame from a 50x30 mm timber of the same length as your bench seat should be. For two people, 120 mm is enough. Attach the chair backs to it as shown. For fastenings, use long self-tapping screws.
Color the structure created in this way in the color you need.
For the manufacture of the seat, you can use a sheet of plywood, fiberboard or wooden furniture board. Saw the seat slightly wider than the frame. If desired, it can be covered with batting or foam rubber and upholstery fabric or leather substitute. A furniture stapler is very useful for tightening the material.
The bench is ready! It remains to find a suitable place for her and enjoy the result.
Another improvised material for quickly creating a bench can be construction pallets.
If you have the right tools, it will not be difficult to assemble a bench of any design from them. The main thing is to carefully process the pallet boards with sandpaper and an antiseptic protective agent (this rule works for all wooden products planned for outdoor use). In addition, such a bench can be painted in your favorite color or covered with wood stain. You can decorate it with a simple jute rope and metal rivets, as well as pillows of various sizes, colors and textures.
As you can see, a handmade garden bench is not only a place to sit. It is enough to show a little imagination and a corner for relaxing with the whole family is ready. If you make it yourself, it will save you money and time looking for the right option, which sometimes you just can’t find. If you do not have sufficient carpentry skills, create a bench from improvised materials, this does not require much labor, but it looks no less aesthetically pleasing.
How to make a garden bench with your own hands from wood. Video instruction.
A garden bench is not just ordinary furniture designed for relaxation. With the help of this furniture, you can decorate your backyard, create whole compositions that will fit perfectly into the surrounding space of the garden or yard. It is not difficult to make a garden bench with your own hands, the main thing is to choose the design of the furniture, its location and the material from which it will be made.
Garden bench materials
Plastic
Lightweight plastic furniture has a lot of advantages: it is easy to move from place to place, it is easy to take care of it, it has an affordable price category. You can choose any color option that fits perfectly into the landscape design. Cons of plastic furniture: quickly covered with scratches, fades in the sun, looks cheap.
Or even a chair. By the way, chair cushions are foam chips in plastic bags. Warm, cozy, extravagant 
Wood
This material is ideal for creating furniture: it absorbs heat, looks noble, and is easy to process. For the manufacture of benches, any type of wood is suitable, the main thing is that the material is sufficiently well dried and does not have external defects.
A rock
This natural and beautiful material fits perfectly into any stylistic direction of landscape design. Stone compositions look solid, noble and unusual. But, despite many advantages, natural stone has several disadvantages. Sitting on a stone bench is not very comfortable, and it is not safe for health either. Therefore, together with the bench, it is imperative to make warm covers or pads. Stone compositions are installed permanently, they cannot be moved from place to place.
Metal
Garden benches, made by hot or cold forging, are a real decoration of a garden or a place to relax. The designs look beautiful, stylish, especially if additional decorative elements were used. Metal is most often combined with wood, glass or other material.
Requirements that a garden bench must meet
Convenience
First of all, you need to think about the ergonomic design of furniture for relaxation. It should be comfortable and comfortable. It is best to make furniture with a back on which you can lean back and relax.
Security
The garden bench must be strong, carefully assembled and withstand heavy loads. For these purposes, it is best to use high-quality materials and accessories.
Resistant to changes in humidity and temperature
Since the furniture is made for the garden or courtyard, the material must withstand all climatic changes without defects and damage.
Prices for garden benches
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Bench design
The length of the seat and back will be 1500 mm. Three people can comfortably accommodate on this furniture. Seat height - 450 mm, back height - 900 mm. The back is preferably positioned at an angle of 18-20 degrees. The seat width is 400 mm.
Material and tools for making a wooden garden bench
- Wooden boards 1500 by 150 mm, 35-40 mm thick. Three blanks for the seat and two for the back.
- Blanks that act as legs and holders for the backrest - 900 by 150 mm, 35-40 mm thick.
- Blanks for the front legs of the bench - 360 by 150 mm, 35-40 mm thick.
- Beams 40 by 40 mm will be used to reinforce the structure of the bench.
- Self-tapping screws.
- Electric jigsaw for cutting boards.
- Electric planer for grinding the surface of boards and chamfering.
- Screwdriver.
- Sandpaper.
- Lacquer and primer.
Making a wooden structure
Step 1. Boards for making benches can be purchased immediately in size, if there are none for sale, the wood will have to be cut into blanks using a jigsaw or a miter saw.
After the wood is cut to the desired length, it must be carefully processed. The blanks for the back and seat need to be sanded. All ends of the boards also need to be processed with an electric planer, it is desirable to give them a rounded shape.
Step 2. The long back legs of the bench, which additionally serve as a frame for the backrest, need to be set to the correct angle of inclination. To do this, you need to mark two wooden blanks with a length of 900 mm.
The first is the height of the bench - 400 mm. This section of the board does not need processing. Starting from the segment, you need to make a cut of 20 degrees along the rest of the board, which forms the angle of inclination of the back of the bench. The cuts on the two rear legs should be the same both in height and in the angle of inclination. Otherwise, the bench will be skewed.
Step 3 The legs are assembled first in the design of the bench. The distance between the front and rear legs is 280 mm. The legs are connected with a beam, which is cut to the entire width of the bench - by 500 mm. It is advisable to do double strapping - top and bottom.
Step 4 After the two sides of the bench are assembled, you can connect them together with boards designed for sitting. The boards are screwed with self-tapping screws to the upper strapping beams. It is desirable that gaps of equal size remain between the wooden blanks - 1-2 cm. These gaps contribute to air circulation and moisture removal.
Step 5 Strengthening the structure of the bench. In order for garden furniture to be stable and durable, it is desirable to strengthen its design. For these purposes, you need to make the lower trim along the legs with the help of beams. Two blanks, having a length of 1500 mm, are screwed to the front and rear legs of the bench. If there is not enough lumber, you can use one cross-beam, which is attached to the bottom rails of the strapping.
Step 6 Bench back assembly. The bench is almost ready, the last touch remains - the fastening of two boards that act as a backrest. The first board is recommended to be fixed at a distance of 200 mm from the seat. The second - at a distance of 380 mm from the seat.
Step 7 Finishing coating of garden furniture. To protect the wood from environmental influences, it is desirable to use varnish. Impregnation will protect the bench from moisture, mold, insect pests.
Lacquer will give the furniture a beautiful and elegant look. To give the wood a shine, you need to thoroughly polish the material, and varnish the blanks several times.
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DIY metal garden bench
You can decorate a personal plot not only with wooden furniture. Metal benches are another way to create a cozy and comfortable place to relax. To make a metal frame, it is not necessary to master the technique of hot forging.
An example of a bench made of metal and wood You can apply the technology of cold forging, in which the frame of metal blanks is welded into a single structure. In the manufacture, you can ennoble various decorative elements, unusual inserts and additions.
Tools and materials for the manufacture of a garden bench by cold forging
- Angle grinder with discs for cutting and polishing metal.
- with a set of electrodes.
- Pipe bending device. This can be a mini-machine "Snail" or a bench vise with which you can bend metal according to a template. This device is necessary if a complex shape of the back with rounded edges is planned.
- Square metal pipes (30 mm by 30 mm).
- Decorative elements of hot forging to decorate the structure.
- Seat and back material (wood, MDF, plywood).
- Roulette.
- Level.
- Primer for metal.
- Protective coating for wood.
Step-by-step instruction
It is quite difficult to make a complex and elaborate design of a bench without experience. But to make a simple and durable design can be easily.
Step 1. Develop the dimensions and dimensions of the bench. A standard-sized garden bench has a length of 1500 mm, a width of 400-500 mm, and a back height of 800-900 mm. Corner forms of furniture are the easiest to make, so for the first time it is better to try to make a model simpler with your own hands.
Step 2 Making a frame for a seat. The metal pipe needs to be cut into 4 fragments: 2 by 1500 mm and 2 by 400 mm. All details in a rectangle. To make the seat more durable, you can weld 2 additional stiffeners into the rectangular frame.
Step 3 Leg manufacturing. The metal pipe needs to be cut into 4 identical pieces of 460 mm each. These blanks need to be welded to the corners of the bench. It is recommended to weld additional stiffeners between the front and rear legs.
Step 4 Back making. Two workpieces with a length of 440 mm and one workpiece with a length of 1500 mm must be welded together. Then this design is welded to the already finished part of the bench. The back should be attached at an angle of 15-20 degrees. In this case, sitting on the bench will be comfortable.
Step 5 To make the back of the bench stronger, you can additionally strengthen its frame with stiffeners, transverse or longitudinal.
Step 6 The metal frame of the garden bench is ready. The final work is the cleaning of all welding seams, polishing the metal and coating the frame with a primer.
Step 7 Wooden back and seat. Wooden boards or beams are the most suitable material for finishing a metal bench. The wood for the back and seat must be carefully planed and polished, the chamfers are processed. The tree needs to be cut into blanks that can be mounted both along and across the back and seat. It all depends on the length of the material.
Step 8 Using an electric drill, it is required to drill holes in the metal frame of the bench for mounting the wooden trim of the bench. To connect metal and wood, it is recommended to use bolts with rounded heads and nuts.
Step 9 After the back and seat are bolted to the metal frame, the wood needs to be stained or varnished. This will protect the material from environmental influences.
The bench for the garden is ready. Due to the fact that the metal pipe is hollow inside, the furniture is not very heavy and can be moved from place to place. Well-crafted metal and wood easily tolerate high humidity and temperature changes, so that a hand-made bench will last for many years.
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In order for the garden plot to be comfortable enough, it should be properly equipped. An important component are garden benches. They can be made independently in different ways and from various materials.
Bench made of concrete slabs and boards with a back
Looking at the drawings of the bench, you can find out the features of its device. You can make such a design with your own hands relatively easily, quickly and without high financial costs.
Making a bench with a backrest with your own hands in a step-by-step instruction is described in great detail.
Assembly: the initial stage
After the preparatory work, the time for wood processing is coming. In order for a do-it-yourself bench with a back to serve for a long time and decorate the site, it is necessary to pre-process the materials.
wood cover antiseptic formulations and let dry. After that, you can start collecting backs.
On one of the two-meter boards, fifty centimeters are measured from the edges. At this level, the edges of the white will be located.tons of slabs. From this mark another fifteen centimeters are measured to the center of the board. Here the first boards will be attached. From the resulting marks we measure seventeen and a half centimeters - the gap between the boards of the back. Next, we measure fifteen centimeters for two more boards. Between them there should be a gap of five centimeters. All this can be seen in the drawing.
Wood glue is applied to sections of fifteen centimeters. Boards are applied to them, the length of which is sixty-five centimeters. Additionally, they are fixed with self-tapping screws.
From above, between the boards of the back, pieces of seventeen and a half centimeters are glued. In order for the parts to stick together well, they are clamped and held until the glue sets. After gluing is completed, the back is covered with an antiseptic.
All wooden parts can be coated varnish. This will give them additional stability and attractiveness.
Assembly of the main part
It is better to collect the main part of the bench from two sides. Concrete slabs are placed between the boards, and M16 threaded rods fifty-five centimeters long are inserted into the drilled holes. They will need four pieces.
The rods are fastened with nuts and washers M16. They are twisted at the same time from different sides to make the bench even.
A simple bench with your own hands
You can make benches for giving with your own hands quickly enough if you follow the instructions. Consider four options for such garden structures.
On the drawings benches detail all its features. Making such a bench with your own hands is quite simple. The only difficult element is the concave seat.
The number of parts and their dimensions are indicated in the table.
The manufacture of benches with their own hands from wood begins with blanks the necessary details. Boards and timber are sawn into pieces of the desired length.
The manufacture of seat supports will be somewhat more difficult. You will need to markup on the blanks. Two points are marked along the edges at a distance of seven and a half centimeters from the bottom side, and in the center a point at a distance of four and a half centimeters. They are connected using a flexible plastic ruler and cut out jigsaw. Sections are treated with sandpaper.
Seat supports are attached to the two upper tsargs. One on each end and one in the middle. Next, the supports are screwed, spaced from the extreme ones by the width of the legs. All connections are made with self-tapping screws.
Boards are attached to the resulting base seats. It is desirable to deepen the hats of self-tapping screws.
Then attach legs. They are attached to the seat supports. The lower tsargs help to fix the legs.
The finished product is covered antiseptic and varnish.
Simple bench #2
To make such a garden bench with your own hands, you will need concrete flower girls and boards. Flower girls are required to create the base of the bench. Use two with a rectangular base and two cubic ones.
In order for the base to be stable, the flower girls must be glued or connected from the inside with staples fixed with self-tapping screws. A layer of drainage and soil is poured into the tank. This increases their stability.
The seat for the bench is made of boards. To do this, they are cut into segments of the desired length. These blanks are laid so that they have a distance of half a centimeter. Then they are connected using cross bars. Planks are placed in three places: along the edges and in the middle. Corners are attached to the planks. With their help, the seat will be fixed on the flower girls.
Do-it-yourself bench with a back
Prepare the details of the bench shown in the figure. They are processed antiseptics before connecting.
Then the supports are assembled from the parts. Pre-round the corners and chamfer. First, parts A and B are connected with a bolt, and then B, C and D are also connected using a bolt.
The inclination of the backrest is determined by part D, after which it is connected to part A. Similarly, but in mirror image, another support is made.
After that, the back and seat are assembled. To do this, the supports are placed so that there is a distance of twenty centimeters between them. First, the front and rear bars are screwed to the supports, then all the others, and finally the stops are screwed.
At the last stage, the back of this bench is screwed.
Bench #4Another option for a simple do-it-yourself bench. Its length is one hundred and twenty centimeters. The height from the ground to the seat is fifty centimeters, the height of the back is also fifty centimeters.
The base is made from boards, whose thickness is five centimeters, and the width is from ten to twelve. One of the legs continues and is the backrest support. The supports are connected according to the “half-tree” method and fastened with bolts.
The basis for the seat is a bar fixed on self-tapping screws. The short legs on the back of the bench are colleted together to increase stability. The seat and back are sheathed with boards with a smaller thickness. The surface is painted or varnished.
A simple bench with a back for a summer cottage
The dimensions of the structure and wooden parts can be seen on drawings benches. If we consider how to make a bench with our own hands, then this option will be the most optimal in terms of the simplicity of the process and the result obtained.
Materials are best purchased already cut to size. If there is no such option, then you need to cut them yourself.
The resulting blanks polished. The ends of the boards are treated with an electric planer.
The rear legs of this simple do-it-yourself bench are also a support for the back. To create the desired level of inclination, the blanks are marked.
At a height of forty centimeters mark the place of attachment seats. Above the board is cut at an angle of twenty degrees. The cuts on the two blanks should be the same.
Gather first legs benches: the front ones are connected to the back ones with a beam. It is better to do this from above and below.
When the side parts are assembled, they can be connected to each other with seat boards. Screw the boards with self-tapping screws, leaving distances of one or two centimeters.
To strengthen the structure and increase its stability, make the lower strapping bar on the legs. Two boards are attached to the back.
Finish the work with a finish coated which will protect the product from moisture and adverse conditions.
Do-it-yourself pallet bench
Make a bench with your own hands pallets It's easy if you use your imagination. To do this, you need three or four of these wooden structures. Some will need to be cut to get additional details. The simplest do-it-yourself pallet bench design is when two pallets are attached perpendicular to each other, creating a back and seat.
So that the design does not turn out to be too cumbersome, it is better to cut the pallets to the desired dimensions. Fasten the elements with self-tapping screws. Add side details that enhance strength and make legs. All this can be seen in the photo.
Since the material of the pallets is raw, rough, it will need to be preliminarily grind. This will allow you to do without splinters.
The manufacture of benches with their own hands from pallets is being completed with varnish or paint.
Bench puzzle
You can make such a bench with your own hands if you have a wide board and shovels for shovels. Figured seats are cut out of the board in the form of puzzle pieces. Legs from cuttings for shovels are attached to them. Separate stools are obtained, which are quickly assembled into one long bench. All manufacturing steps are detailed in step-by-step photos.
Benches from unnecessary chairs: two do-it-yourself options
First option
To create such a bench for a summer house with your own hands, you will need four old chair.
From the first two chairs filming parts on the front of the seat.
The rest sawed off the front legs are slightly lower than the seat structure.
From the resulting details you need take off old varnish or paint. To do this, a special agent is applied to the parts that dissolves paint and varnish coatings. Then the softened layer can be removed with a spatula.
The racks should drill dowel holes. Holes are required on the front and end sides.
The dowels are smeared with glue and inserted into the drilled holes.
When the dowels are glued, you can collect base benches. To make the design durable, the parts are fastened with self-tapping screws. Construction surface sanded.
For seats benches choose a board that is suitable in size, saw off the excess.
If several narrower boards are used, then they are glued together with wood glue. For a tight connection, they are clamped with clamps and waiting for the glue to dry.
The finished seat is also glued to the base with wood glue. Heavy objects are placed on the board and clamped together with the base with clamps.
When the glue dries, cover the seat with masking tape and stain other structural elements with wood paint.
The adhesive tape is removed and the seat is processed wood stain. In conclusion, the entire bench is varnished.
Second option
To make a second garden bench with your own hands from old furniture, you will need two chairs. It is better if the back and hind legs are not separated.
Two identical chairs clean up all parts of the structure except for the rear legs with a back.
take bars 5 cm wide and 3 cm thick. Two pieces are cut off, equal in length to the width of the chairs, and two pieces of the same length as the finished bench will be. From these four parts, a rectangle is assembled. It is fixed to the backs of the chairs with self-tapping screws.
Another frame is assembled in the same way. Several cross bars are attached to it. This design is attached under the seat, makes the bench more reliable and plays the role of a shelf.
If the chairs are old coating then remove it with sandpaper. After that, the surface is puttied with a special compound or coated with a primer. When the layer dries, it must be sanded with fine-grained sandpaper. At the end, the structure is covered with paint.
Do-it-yourself seat for a garden bench is made from Chipboard or plywood. A rectangle is cut out of the selected material, which is larger than the base by half a centimeter on each side. Then cut out a piece foam rubber with the same dimensions. A rectangle is cut out of the upholstery fabric. It should be larger than the seat by five centimeters on each side.
Foam rubber is laid on a sheet of plywood, it is covered with a cloth on top. The fabric is fastened from the inside with furniture stapler.
The seat is attached to the base with a piano loop.
Bench-swing
To make such a bench for giving with your own hands, you should prepare the necessary materials. Start manufacturing by creating basics designs. The seat bars are attached to the back bars at a selected angle.
Along the seat install additional ribs providing rigidity.
Attached to the seat planks, drilling holes in the base bars for fastening. The same goes for the back.
Armrests are installed on both sides of the seat. They can be bolted on.
The resulting bench cover wood preservatives and varnishes. It is very important to paint over everything as carefully as possible.
The bottom of the bench is reinforced with metal profile. Chains are attached to the profile, on which the swing bench will be suspended. Be sure to check the reliability of the beams on which the bench will be suspended.
log bench
To make such a bench with your own hands from wood, you will need chainsaw. A thick log one meter long is taken as the main material.
Log mark out, to get two slightly unequal parts. The back will be made from the smaller one, and the seat from the larger one.
Chainsaw log sawed along the mark. The resulting irregularities are immediately cut off with the same saw.
The cut triangular piece is cut into pieces and inserted into the holes in the seat. The back is fixed on top. The bench is almost ready. It remains only to give it a more decorative look.
Can the seat be placed on legs. To do this, recesses are made in the lower part for installing a pair of logs as legs.
Bench-transformer
Design features of the transformer can be seen in the drawings of the bench. A do-it-yourself transformer bench is made from planed boards, which is cut to the named sizes.
In sliced lumber details holes for fasteners are drilled.
At the tabletop, boards located on the edge can be made wavy.
In material intended for countertops, drill holes with a diameter of twenty-two millimeters and a depth of three centimeters. Cuttings of the same diameter will be inserted into them.
The edges of parts and edges are processed and rounded. 
The assembly of all elements is carried out with screws and screws. Screws are needed with dimensions 6x70 and 6x90, screws - 8x80.
Wooden parts stain stain.
The structural parts that will move are connected by hinges.
Between the boards of the tabletop place parts of a round cutting.
Set the stop for backs.
A do-it-yourself transformer bench is covered varnish.
rocking bench
Making an original bench with a backrest with your own hands is not difficult if you have the tools and materials. First you need to consider the drawings of the bench, which contain a small amount of detail.
The side parts according to the pattern are transferred to euro plywood three centimeters thick. They are cut with a jigsaw and the ends are processed with a grinder.
To fix the connecting strips, markings are made. Then holes are drilled. After assembling the frame, the rails are fixed with self-tapping screws. The attachment points are spatulated, and the product is completely varnished.
Bench around a tree
The simplest version of such a bench - hexagonal. The size depends on the size of the tree. Measurements are made at the height of the seat. To the result obtained, another margin of fifteen to twenty centimeters is added. If you divide the result by 1.75, you get the length of the inside.
For cutting boards ten centimeters wide are laid in four rows at intervals of one centimeter.
The cut point is marked immediately for all rows with an angle of thirty degrees. So cut out six sets of blanks.
Legs are used with a height of sixty to seventy centimeters. They are connected by crossbars by drilling holes and using bolts with nuts.
The seat is installed so that the joints are located in the center of the ribs of the legs. Screw the outer pieces first, then the inner ones. In this way, the entire hexagonal structure is assembled around the tree.
At the end, they make a back and mount an apron. The result is a circular bench with a do-it-yourself backrest.
The finished product is processed oil impregnation.
Bench made of curved branches
A bench made of curved branches will look original. For you will need branches for the front, two legs, a horizontal top and a pair of transverse branches.
Sawing branches so that they match each other as accurately as possible. Then they are connected with metal corners.
Similarly, the back is made and connected to the front.
The finished product is placed on a flat area and the seat is assembled.
Bench options
- log bench which blends in well with the natural environment. It consists of half a log used for the seat, and two short round logs that are legs.
- Beautiful wooden bench with a back and armrests, reminiscent of a sofa. Curved and carved elements make it more attractive, while left knots and bumps give the design a natural look.
- Bench made of wood and metal. The base of the structure is metal. The wooden parts of the seat and back are fixed to it. Due to the small thickness of the metal parts, it looks light.
- A bench of a simple, classical form. It is made of wooden, rather wide boards. This width allows you to comfortably sit on the bench. Armrests make the design more complete.
- original bench made of wood with curly details. This option is well suited for a site with a natural rural design. Carved legs and armrests, figured back - all this gives the product originality.
- Bench with an interesting back. The curved parts gradually deviate back, creating a unique design. The seat is slightly curved but has a more traditional look.
- Wood complex- a table with two benches. The design looks traditional due to the material used. The original solution is to fasten all the components into a single structure.
- The bench is made from solid wood. A single piece is cut out of it, combining the back and seat. The legs are attached to the bottom. The log is required quite large.
- Bench with storage box for toys. Outwardly, it looks like an ordinary wooden bench-sofa, but under the seat it has a drawer in which you can put various things.
- Comfortable wooden bench with a simple shape. The base is made in the form of a rectangular box. The back is also simple with a straight shape. The seat is padded with soft cushions for added comfort.
- A wooden bench placed around a tree. It is made as if it consists of four benches, each of which has one armrest. The composition looks attractive and comfortable.
- Bench of a simple form from wide boards. It looks solid, but its size is somewhat hidden by the gaps between the boards and the light blue color in which it is painted.
Items of garden furniture are necessary to equip a place to relax at your summer cottage at your discretion. Photos of benches in the garden look attractive. Any master can make such furniture himself.
First you need to decide on the choice of material for the future product and choose the right design solution.
Work materials
Garden bench can be made from various materials. Each of them has its own advantages.
Plastic bench
This piece of furniture has many advantages. Plastic products are affordable, they do not require special care, they are easy to disassemble and assemble. Today, plastic is presented in rich colors.
However, there are also disadvantages. A plastic item looks cheaper than a wooden item. Under the influence of direct sunlight, it quickly fades, and its surface may be deformed.
Wood for garden furniture
To make original benches for summer cottages, craftsmen often use wood. Wood is easy to process, the material looks noble, and installation does not take much time.
The main requirements are the absence of defects and good drying.
stone products
The naturalness of the material is its undeniable advantage; it attracts with its natural beauty. In finished products, it looks luxurious and stylish.
Natural stone items are easy to make with your own hands. However, the material has not only advantages, but also disadvantages:
- It is unhealthy to sit on a cold stone.
- The bench is installed exclusively permanently.
What about metal?
Metal benches are a great decoration for a recreation area. The cold forging method, like the hot forging method, allows you to create beautiful designs.
In addition, metal is perfectly combined with glass or wood.
What should be the ideal shop?
Among all the requirements, the main ones can be distinguished:
- Comfort. The bench needs to be ergonomic. A bench with a back is a good option.
- The product must be capable of withstanding heavy loads. The master needs to choose only high-quality materials and accessories.
Bench design features
A summer resident who wants to ennoble the landscape around the house should know how to make a bench with his own hands. You must first determine the dimensions.
Dimensions - 1.5 mX0.4 m, height - 0.45 m (seat) and 900 m (back). The back is made at an angle of 18 or 20 degrees. It is important to correctly execute the drawings of the bench, then the work will not argue.
The master will need to prepare the following:
- Primer, varnish;
- Special sandpaper for wood;
- Screwdriver;
- Electroplaner;
- Electric jigsaw;
- Self-tapping screws 40X40;
- Blanks for front and rear legs, as well as for backrest holders;
- Wooden boards with dimensions 1500X150 and thickness from 35 mm to 40 mm.
Making a wooden structure with your own hands
It's good when you can find boards with the right dimensions on the market.
When there was no suitable option on the construction market, the master will have to arm himself with a jigsaw in order to cut the material himself. A miter saw will help speed up the process.
Note!
Finished blanks must be processed. The surface of the boards for the backrest with the seat needs to be sanded. The ends are processed using an electric planer, the best option is to make them with a rounded shape.
The next step is to give the required angle of inclination, in this case we are talking about the rear legs of the bench. These elements serve as a framework. Marking is applied to the prepared parts.
We measure the height - 0.4 m. It is necessary to make a cut equal to 20 degrees to form the angle of inclination. Between the legs of the bench in front and behind the distance should be 0.28 m. A beam with a size of 0.5 m connects the legs. It is better when the strapping is performed not only from above, but also from below.
The sidewalls are connected as soon as the assembly of the main parts is completed. The boards are fastened with self-tapping screws to the strapping bars that are on top. Between the blanks leave gaps to remove moisture.
When mounting the backrest, the board that comes first is attached at a distance of 0.2 m from the seat, and the second - 0.38 m.
Note!
You can proceed to the final coating of the product. For this, impregnation with varnish for outdoor use is used. Such means will help to provide reliable protection against any harmful actions from the outside.
How to create a metal structure?
A master can create a comfortable place for a recreation area using the cold forging technique. It is better to start with models that have angular shapes, they are easier to make.
Detailed instructions
We determine the dimensions (length - 1.5 m, height - 0.8 or 0.9 m, width - 0.4 or 0.5 m).
We make blanks for the frame from a cut pipe. It will be necessary to prepare 2 segments with dimensions of 0.4 m and 2 more fragments of 1.5 m each. We connect these parts into a rectangle and weld them. To make the structure more durable, we weld 2 stiffeners.
To make blanks for the legs, we cut the metal pipe into 4 parts, the length of each should be 0.4 m. The blanks are attached to the corners of the bench. To reinforce the legs, stiffening ribs are additionally installed.
Note!
For the manufacture of the back you will need 2 blanks. The length of one should be 1.5 m, and the other 0.44 mm. We weld the blanks for the back together and weld to the seat. We must not forget about the angle of inclination. For the rest to be comfortable, it must be at least 15 or 20 degrees.
The backrest can also be reinforced with stiffeners.
At the last stage, the seams are cleaned. The surface of the frame is coated with a primer.
If you plan to make a product with curly elements, then the implementation of such a task will require more time.
DIY shop photo
A bench as a household item in antiquity competes with a stool. Because if a stump or boulder is already a stool, then a fallen tree is a bench or, if a bough leaves it, on which you can lean with your back - a bench. In the last two forms, she has successfully survived to this day, to which we will return.
A bench, with or without a back, “on a piece of paper” is not a piece of furniture, not a building, not gardening equipment, and is generally not classified in any way. Therefore, it exists in many different forms, and no restrictions are imposed on its construction and design. The requirements of ergonomics, strength and reliability must be observed in it, but for oneself, no one has the right to make claims.
Most often, this kind of seat is street: courtyard, garden, country, park. It can be the simplest bench from a board on a pair of logs, a classic village bench for gatherings, no less classic garden sofa and park bench, the top row in Fig.
A wooden bench is an exquisite and largely defining face of landscape design, therefore it is the object of close attention of specialists of the corresponding profile. In the 2nd row from the top in Fig. individual results of their investigations. But the prices are my respect, sometimes more expensive than a good furniture set. There is a unique material, and design, and the wages of the craftsmen who embody all this in the product. And most importantly - the complete absence of restrictions on cheating, because they are luxury goods.
Exclusive samples of benches / benches are technologically not so complicated that they cannot be made by yourself. However, in this article we will see how to make a bench with our own hands, being content with the usual carpentry work methods and not even the most difficult of them. It will turn out something like those on the 3-4 rows of Fig. And the acquired skills will be quite enough to create a unique one later, there would be material. You may have to master only the simplest methods of weaving from a vine on your own.
And at home?
The bench, in fact, has never been completely forced out into the street. There were, are and will be benches in utility and utility rooms. Now they are gradually returning to living rooms: the increasingly popular studio apartment is essentially the same hut where they lived all together in one large room. And the shop for centuries has proved its ability to establish a cheerful and benevolent life in housing not for biryuks. And we will further highlight the section on some types of indoor benches.
What to do?
The seat and back of the bench are almost always wooden. The metal cools, rusts, which is why it requires annual painting, and gradually wears out. Plastic is cheap, requires minimal maintenance at first, but is uncomfortable and does not last long outdoors and / or with intensive use by random people. We are talking here about the arrangement of private properties, so we are most interested in a bench made of wood, as a harmless material that is most pleasing to the eye and touch.
Note: the wooden parts of the benches are impregnated with biocides before assembly. The most affordable in this case is used engine oil. Varnish (prime, paint) the entire product after a week of drying after impregnation. It is preferable to take a water-based acrylic varnish, it somewhat protects the wood from darkening under the influence of ultraviolet radiation.
However, the supports / legs or the power frame of the bench may not be wooden. For example, profile metal is better resistant to shocks and impacts and in contact with the ground is more durable than wood, especially concreted. Therefore, for public benches - street, yard - such an execution is preferable, especially since a simple country bench on a steel base will cost less, if only due to the smaller volume of blanks to be delivered to the assembly site.
Bench and stone
A very good garden bench is obtained on a stone base. For example, in pos. 1 fig. flagstone only adds naturalness to the tree and masonry seams do not detract from it at all. The creators of the one in pos. 2, they simply poured the bottle into wire baskets, which at the same time served as supports for the tray-table. A bench with flower girls on pos. 3, nothing prevents them from leaning instead of them on mini-rock gardens. If you build a pergola over such a bench, you get a very cozy alcove, pos. 4.
Note: there are also benches with a stone seat, but a suitable slab will be expensive, the stone for it needs quite valuable rocks, very viscous, resistant to fracture and chipping.
To take a rest
In the country, I want to have a good rest, especially after agricultural work. Therefore, it is highly desirable that the dacha bench meet the requirements of industrial ergonomics:
- Seat height 400-500 mm.
- Seat width 500-550 mm.
- Back height 350-500 mm.
- Backrest tilt 74-78 degrees.
- Seat profile (back with seat) is smooth, without a dip under the buttocks.
- In the region of the neck and knees, smooth bends of the profile are made back and down, respectively, so that you can tilt your head and tighten your legs without feeling a sharp rib.
Note: The dimensions of the bench are selected within the recommended limits individually for height and physique.
Drawings of a garden sofa suitable for such conditions are shown in fig. Its design is quite labor- and material-intensive, but technologically not complicated: there are no parts whose configuration would require the use of patterns or templates. Its significant drawback is a large waste of expensive timber, 1.3 m from a 6-meter workpiece, and a 3-meter one is small. Garden bench-sofa on the trail. rice. it is simpler and a thick beam is not needed for it, but 4 parts need to be cut along the grid. Which, however, in the presence of a jigsaw is not scary.
And the kids too
How children love to play on the benches, it is known whether it is a noisy flock with elbows banging, or the whole puppet world of a little housewife. As well as the fact that at the same time they fidget with enthusiasm, crawl, and, not feeling lateral support, slap. There is nothing wrong here, it's a child's business. But there will be less roar and pouting faces if the children's bench is equipped with low railings. However, she does not need a back, so that several slobs can approach both front and back, or sit on a seat astride, legs dangling.
A suitable hybrid of a bench, bench and sofa in this case is shown in fig. It is better to put this building near the children's playhouse. However, see how it will be more convenient for you, this bench is suitable for adults in size, and it is much easier to make it than the previous one.
By the whole world
A table with benches in the country to each other and ask. On the already equipped, with overgrown trees, the site will have a cozy family recreation area: a table with benches. A diagram with the dimensions of one of the designs of a combined country table with benches in one block is shown in fig. Its design is characterized by ease of assembly and disassembly and the almost complete absence of metal fasteners.
There are only 4 one-piece and somewhat technologically complex connections in this product: T-shaped bench-beams in the section are assembled on dowels or dowels, depending on whether you have a manual wood router or not. But for the winter, the whole complex is easy to disassemble, fold into a compact package and put away in the pantry. Material - weather and pest resistant wood: tar pine, larch, oak. On the base panel you will need plywood 24-30 mm, waterproof or double impregnated with a water-polymer emulsion.
Note: to the lower edges of the base panels, it is desirable to attach square-section wooden bars with glue and self-tapping screws. This will additionally protect the plywood from delamination. Gluing the connection is mandatory, otherwise, due to capillary blocking, the service life of the panels will only decrease.
Combi for two
Fans of philosophical and romantic tête-à-tête in the bosom of nature may like a paired garden bench chair with a back and a table. For a volume of favorite poems, of course. The scheme of its device is shown in fig. on the right, and the drawings and assembly diagram in fig. below. Material everywhere - 30 mm board. This product is already designed for quite experienced craftsmen, because. patterns are given only for shaped parts (there is a grid pitch of 10 mm), and other dimensions will have to be restored according to the base grid (see appendix); forming a radius of recesses for the backs in the rear support of 1300 mm.
metal based
A professional pipe 40x40x2.5 with welded ends, thrown directly to the ground in the Moscow region, rusts through and through in more than 15 years. And after that, the remaining box can hold the bench no less. There is no need to talk about strength: even Hollywood superheroes do not cut steel with their hands. True, in the USSR they once bungled a rather stupid movie in which the late Lev Durov pierced a metal tank with his finger. Tin, for drinking water.
So, with the strength and durability of metal benches, everything is OK. Garden benches from a profile pipe can be quite attractive, see fig. But pay attention: a pleasant appearance is achieved by using parts bent along the radius. To achieve the same aesthetic effect with straight pipes, you need at least twice as much work and material, as in the lower right in Fig.
To smoothly bend the workpieces, you need a fairly expensive and complex pipe bender for profile pipes. An alternative option is hot bending of a pipe filled with sand. But, firstly, at current prices, he needs a forge with a forge: in order to bend the sides of the bench in the tutorials with the help of a propane burner, at the bottom left in the figure, you need to almost completely burn a 20-liter gas cylinder. Secondly, hot bending is a delicate matter. If you manage to ruin no more than 3 blanks before the part comes out without wrinkles and with the ends in the same plane, you are a born blacksmith.
The next circumstance is that the strength of the metal profile bench is significantly excessive. Therefore, if you do this, the main thing is your own taste and invention. And we give a couple of drawings of benches from a professional pipe 40x40x2.5 for a purely utilitarian purpose. On the left in fig. - a large economic, and on the right - Scott's shop. Why she and what to do with her is well known to fans of bodybuilding and fitness.
Is it just a pipe?
Professional pipes are pulled from ordinary structural steel, and nowhere has anyone said that any other metal will not fit on the bench. For such cases, in Fig. a few examples of metal benches. Pos. 1 - a shop for secluded and little visited places. It makes no sense to steal it: the “fat” is scanty compared to the fuss of robbery and disassembly, and the secondary tree is not yet accepted anywhere. Material - steel strip 4-6 mm thick. Violent fun legs from it will not stand, so this shop is mainly for the cemetery.
Pos. 2 - bench / wicker lounger for sun and air baths. It does not press anywhere, the body breathes from all sides. The base is from an old Soviet clamshell, so a child will rearrange it much more conveniently. The supporting frame can be assembled from propylene water pipes instead of now expensive aluminum.
A complete functionally and aesthetically pleasing garden bench, pos. 3 is assembled on the basis of worn parts of agricultural machinery and vehicles. The latter, however, is not necessary: instead of leaf springs, the same steel strip or corner will go.
About transforming benches
Transformable furniture saves a lot of usable space. In a city apartment, this dignity is decisive. Unfortunately, it is the only one: transformable furniture is more complicated, more expensive, less functional than conventional furniture, and requires additional user operations when transferred to a different use case.
“Transfurniture” came to the garden/cottage, probably only under the influence of fashion. A transforming garden bench is most often either a twin bench or a lounger, laid out with a table with benches, see fig. However, basking in the sun is more pleasant after all on something soft, like the braid described above. And if the transformer is a double bench, then it is a garden bench, not a park one. It is not customary to sit with your back to each other between relatives, friends and acquaintances.
There is one more circumstance: there is many times more dust and climatic influences on the street than at home. therefore, if, say, a transforming apartment table, with careful use, will last 7-10 years, then a garden one will last 3-5 years, especially with wooden hinges.
In general, transformable garden furniture is an amateur business. If you want to practice mechanics with kinematics - your will. But it’s really easier and more sense to think over the layout of the site so that everything you need fits there separately.
Benches indoors
A bench as a piece of furniture is absolutely necessary in a bathhouse: they change clothes on it, douse themselves from a gang, relax after steaming, drink tea with lime blossom, dried raspberries or blueberries. Very helpful, by the way. But to suffice after something cold or to get strong is a devastating perversion for health.
But for a bench, a bath is not a pleasure, but hard labor: every now and then dampness, the temperature can jump from -30 to +60 in 2-3 hours. Therefore, firstly, a tree for a bath bench is required to be resistant to decay, but without resins, tannins, salicylates, aromatic compounds and other natural chemistry. And it needs to be treated only with biocides from refined mineral oils or based on silicone. Steamed skin is sensitive to substances that are harmless to it under normal conditions, and when sweat is reabsorbed, unwanted “additives” penetrate the body.
Secondly, in a small bathhouse, where the beds do not fit, they steam on the bench. And what is this steam, if it squelches under the stomach? Therefore, a bench in the steam room is made in the form of a lounger with gaps or a lattice of small slats, see fig. But even in this case, a porous tree is required, which easily absorbs moisture and just as easily releases it into the air.
Thirdly, there should be no metal parts in the bath bench that can be accidentally touched. The thermal conductivity of the metal is high, therefore, it gives off heat easily. A piece of wood heated to +80 can be touched fearlessly, and a piece of iron at +60 (which is normal for a bath) will burn.
The best bath benches are made from the Asian Tughrak poplar. Its almost complete replacement is aspen or black alder. Linden and birch are much worse, easily rot. Silver poplar, sycamore, horse chestnut or, in the southern regions, ailanthus will last longer. All these types of wood in the bath will not slip only if the bench dries well, for which there should be no gaps in the structure that can retain moisture for a long time. And it is desirable to have the entire product easily disassembled for maintenance and, if necessary, replacement of unusable parts.
Brand shops do not meet the latest conditions and the roads, because. made from special varieties of tropical wood. And a home-made bench in the bath is no worse than a “company” can be made at least according to the drawing in fig. With a thickness of 50 mm seat / lounger boards, its length can be increased up to 2 m in order to bathe lying in full height. Then the width is needed from 60 cm; it is obtained by adding a board and a pair of its heels with legs. The red arrows show the oak leg pads, they greatly increase their resistance to decay.
Not only in the bath
In addition to the bath, the benches, as mentioned at the beginning, are also returning to the living quarters. And not only in studio apartments: in a country house or in the kitchen, a bench will save a lot of space. Do not be surprised, a bench under the wall, equivalent to a pair of chairs in the same place, saves about 0.5 square meters. m area. And this is already a small stove or a corner fireplace, plus you can sleep on the bench. Of course, the view of the house bench should be more elegant, but it is assembled “in furniture style”, from wood on dowels or from chipboard on confirmations. A technologically simple version of a home bench for two riders is shown in Fig. It is also suitable for urban cuisine, if there is no place for a soft corner.
Note: in fig. on the right - options for making the well-known household mini-bench from cash scraps. Height - on the knees; seat dimensions - according to their own fifth point.
Whatever
antique
Here we will talk about benches from improvised materials. Since the log shop is perhaps its oldest variety, we are looking for logs of a suitable thickness, from 200 mm. Because independent logging is prohibited by law (although it is practiced in some places) and does not benefit nature, we pay attention primarily to dry fallen trees (easier to process) or unusable trees cut down in the garden. Curves, knotty - so much the better; visible roughness gives the log bench only more rustic charm, see fig.
Next, you should turn the log into a bench. Here you can find instructions like: “Precisely (carefully) sawing the log along.” Without a sawmill with a centering and feed mechanism? Advisers of this kind about the processing of wood have a clearly vague concept. In fact, a log bench at home can be made in 2 ways.
The first one gives a large waste of material, therefore it is suitable only if there is an excess of it, but it is available to any amateur, and you can work with an ordinary crosscut saw, even a hand one. For those who don't know: the wood is sawn along the fibers with special longitudinal saws. So, first we make cuts on the log to the desired depth more often, pos. 1 in Fig., and break out the pieces with a crowbar (this is by no means only a thieves' tool), a nail puller or a mount. They jump out of dry deadwood as if by themselves, but on damp timber you will have to sweat over the first ones, and remove the others with a chainsaw, it also cuts along, pos. 2.
Next, first, with an ax and a chisel, we remove the remains of chips, pos. 3, and then we rough-out the surfaces with a plow (planer). The finished product is processed with a grinder, pos. 4, or just hand sanded. In this way, a solid log bench is obtained. Debark the sides or leave it as is, and biocide, stain, and varnish the same as you would for any outdoor wood. Slightly rotted deadwood (with dark spots) will first have to be treated with a wood reducer (clarifier).
For the second method, you only need a chainsaw, because. she cuts both along and across. It requires a sure eye, a steady hand and a strong grip, but the result is a full-fledged bench with a back, as in fig. above, with virtually no waste. The technological process in this case is elementary, and the bench is completely ready for gatherings 2-3 hours after starting the saw, see video:
Video: a log bench without nails
Rough but fast and easy
Summer residents-developers, as a rule, do not immediately think about benches. And soon they realize that in vain: on bricks, a box or a random block of wood you can’t rest and don’t really eat. If by this time the first pallet from under the brick has been released, then it will go to the bench, which can be built within an hour, just right.
Pallet benches can also be made in two ways. According to the first, a standard pallet 110x80 cm is sawn into 2 unequal parts, on the left in the figure, which will go to the seat and back. Simple and fast, but on the side struts and legs, on the right there, additional lumber is required, or you need to remove the board from the seat with the back, and an uncomfortable gap forms under what they are sitting on.
The second method requires additional work on disassembling the pallet, see below, but it allows you not to touch the boards prepared for the construction site and the bench comes out more convenient, because. its back is slanted. The first cut is made across the top, where there are more boards, sides of the pallet, pos. 1 in fig. The next one is across the lower side (red line in pos. 2), but from the opposite side of the upper side of the middle bosses (shown by the red arrow).
Next, the part with 2 rows of bosses is disassembled, as shown in pos. 3. The bosses of the upper shield are inserted into the openings of the remainder, pos. 4, for which they will have to be moved apart with a crowbar or mount (double-sided arrows in the same place), and fastened with nails or self-tapping screws, as shown in pos. 5. Remains visible in pos. 4, will go on legs, pos. 6.
How to disassemble pallets
The pallets are assembled on nails with sunken caps, and the nails sit very firmly in them, especially those that have rusted in pallets that have been used for a long time. If you disassemble them as usual, then one or several boards will definitely crack. Therefore, the board being taken away is first slightly gently lifted; it is more convenient to do it with an ax, because. it gives a large footprint. Then the same board is put in place and the nails are pulled out by the hats that have appeared with a nail puller or tongs.
Simple and economical
Construction pallets are made of high-quality wood, which can later be used in a variety of ways; at least for the construction of a barn or the construction of a rack. If we already disassemble the pallet, then it is advisable to put less wood on the bench from it. A simple bench, which will require hardly half the boards of the pallet, and the bars will all be left for better use, is shown in fig. on right. Its back is somewhat flatter than ergonomics requires, due to the smaller width of the seat; so this bench is quite comfortable.
A bit about technology
Bolted connections are often used in garden furniture. If it is one-piece and not articulated, it is better to hide the bolt heads with washers and nuts with them. The first for aesthetics, and the second so as not to get scratched.
For a hidden connection of wooden parts with bolts, in addition to a twist drill for wood, you will also need a feather drill, on the left in fig. Use a pen to select holes for the head and nut. After assembly, the rest of the threaded body of the bolt is cut off with a grinder and the connection is tightened again, because. when pruned, it weakens. Then the holes are filled with wood putty; you can thickly knead the sawdust yourself on the Express glue (liquid nails) or PVA for wood. Not on office PVA for paper!
As for the hinged joints, steel clips must be inserted into the bolt holes in both connected parts, their diameter must be taken into account when drilling. Without clips, the bolt will quickly break the tree and the hinge will go floundering at random.
Clips for the bolt can be rolled from tin or galvanized. In this case, twice a year, at the beginning and end of the season, 2-3 drops of engine oil are allowed into them. If it is nevertheless rusty and seized, brake fluid will help out, the same 2-3 drops. The rust from it becomes limp and the hinge "lets go" almost instantly. After the "brake" it is again dripped with oil.
The manufacture of furniture for summer cottages also requires thorn-groove joints, on dowels and dowels (through round wooden bosses). In this case, firstly, wooden fasteners are made from the same wood as the parts to be joined. For outdoor use, a certain amount of strength has to be sacrificed in order to ensure that the temperature coefficients of expansion, moisture capacity, swelling and shrinkage of the wood of the entire assembly are the same. Otherwise, the connection will quickly loosen up.
Secondly, it is very, very desirable to make connections for "open sky furniture" with wedging, see fig. on right. The wedges are cut out of hard resistant wood: oak, walnut, boxwood, dogwood. Their thickness is 2-2.5 mm, but not narrower. achievable wood-to-wood connection accuracy plus or minus 1 mm.
An important condition: the wedges must be oriented across the fibers of the attached part, otherwise it may split during landing and subsequently the connection will fall apart. If the parts are connected perpendicular (crosswise), then the wedges in the dowel (nagel) should be oriented at 90 degrees relative to each other. Otherwise, the production of country and garden furniture does not contain anything that would not be subject to ordinary working ingenuity.
Application: how to take dimensions on a grid
Let's look again at the drawing of the paired "romantic-philosophical" bench. How to calculate the missing dimensions? First of all, we visually determine the type of oblique projection; in this case it is an isometry, so both oblique axes are equal.
Then we take a more authentic part, for which the linear size is indicated; in this case, this is a tsarga with a length of 1350. According to the drawing, using the Pythagorean theorem, we determine its length in fractions of the grid step. Correlating it with a known linear size, we obtain a scale factor. If the projection is arbitrary, then it will be necessary to calculate 2 scales for 2 details, for each of the oblique axes.
Then a rather painstaking work begins: the missing dimensions are determined from the drawing in fractions of the grid step and multiplied by the scale. For each pair of parts to be joined, we do a fit check, taking into account that the wood accuracy is 1 mm. If, for example, the spike turned out to be thicker than the groove associated with it, it’s understandable that it won’t fit, you need to look for where the error crept in. If it’s already more than 2 mm, it’s also not good, it will hang out and the error will begin to accumulate in the calculations. And if the spike enters the groove with a gap of 0-2 mm, everything is type-top, they calculated perfectly.
