Building Furniture

Since I got my patio covered I decided to try my hand at building some patio furniture.  I ordered a couple of magazines on the subject and once I got them, I started on something rather small and easy.  I built this table in one morning following the instructions and it came out fairly well.

Since it came out nice, I decided to try something a little harder and built this bench.

It also came out nice.  I built this bench with treated lumber and I think I will take it down to the picnic area and chain it to a tree down there overlooking the river.  I will chain it because that area floods almost every time we get a heavy rain and hopefully that will keep it from washing away.  I will build another one for the patio and paint it white to match the table.

Then I really like the picture of this chair in the magazine and decided to try my luck with it.  It was a little more difficult because it called for miter cuts which are not hard except for a novice like me.  I bought some extra lumber in case I messed up and I needed it too but only for one piece.

It came out looking good but it is not very comfortable.  I think maybe I used too many slats in the seat and that made it too rigid and hard.  I will go today and see if I can’t find some cushions for it.

I am going to give this project a couple of days of rest this next week and then I might get busy again.