furniture

[Tracey]

I am looking for some plans for wooden out side furniture to sit by the pond. I want something heavy that the wind will not blow into the pond, really hate fishing my chair out of the pond. Anyone know of any DYI web sites?

Tracey
zone 5

[Laura Linz]

Don't know any sites, but there's a book called two by four furniture, which
is mainly simple outdoor furniture. You would probably find it on Amazon, no
problem.
Laura
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[M_A_T_R_I_X]

I made some beautiful stone benches that took about 2 hours each to
make.

(((First find the place where you want the bench to be...where you build
it is where it will stay!
It is HEAVY!)))

Take 6 regular cinder blocks stack them together to form a rectangular
bench (with the holes facing the inside of course:) wet it down then
just put your favorite flagstone or river rock with some grout and fill
in the crevices "WALLA!" a stone covered bench that would be fit for a
king!

To get the stones to the size & shape I wanted I just used a hammer &
sometimes a chisel.. the jagged edges are more natural looking than
using a wet saw.
Good luck!

WARNING!
After I made mine my neighbors all wanted one LOL!

[Mogga]

On Mon, 28 May 2001 17:42:47 -0500, "Tracey" <tjl...@dpc.net> wrote:

>I am looking for some plans for wooden out side furniture to sit by the =
>pond. I want something heavy that the wind will not blow into the pond, =
>really hate fishing my chair out of the pond. Anyone know of any DYI =
>web sites?

Just look at the type of seat you want and draw it out...... don't
have to be an artist.

I'm in the UK and found that diy.com sells a bench cheaper than I can
make it for,

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[Rod Farlee]

"Tracey" <tjl...@dpc.net> writes:
>I am looking for some plans for wooden out side furniture to sit by the =
>pond. I want something heavy that the wind will not blow into the pond, =
>really hate fishing my chair out of the pond. Anyone know of any DYI =
>web sites?

At my local library, I found several shelf-feet of books with plans for
Adirondack chairs, benches, etc. The nice thing about real books
is that they include cutting patterns to scale, as well as materials
lists etc.
- Rod

[Tracey]

Thanks all of these are great ideas

Tracey

[Tracey]

This doesn't sound to hard to do. It is a safe bet that the wind could not blow it into the pond. I just might need to take another trip to the landscaping place to look at rocks. On a smaller scale this could make a really cool end table to.
Tracey

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[john rutz]

neat idea
Im gonna steal it i think, couple years ago bought plastic
chairs for the back porch, wind took em somewhere in texas,
then I baught a aluminum deck set, table statys more or less
on the portch but the chairs either head east accross th
lawn or into the pond, had to make a special tool to fish
the chairs outa the pond.
as my filters are all made from landscape timbers the LST
bench fits right in and I doubt the wind would take it ttooo
far

John Rutz

the ol desert rat says no amount of planning will ever
replace dumb luck

Mark Collard wrote:
>
> I made a bench out of landscape timbers. The wind will not blow it around.
> Attached is a picture of it. I don't have plans, but you can see basically
> how it is put together. Four people can sit on it comfortably. I also
> built a table into the railing around the pond.
>
> Mark
> http://home.swbell.net/collardm/

>
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