Having a country plot or a private house, of course, I want to not only work, but also enjoy the views and fruits of my labors. A table and a shop for giving your own hands will be an excellent option for arranging a garden.
Wooden bench with a back
A wooden bench will be an inexpensive and practical element of decorating the area and will contribute to quality leisure activities.
What you need to create
Before you build a bench, determine the place of its construction. Better to put it in the shade of a tree or a vineyard. To make a garden bench, you will need: wooden boards 30 mm thick and about 120 wide. Also not to do without wooden bars with a section of 40x40 mm. To connect the boards with each other you need 50 mm tapping screws. After complete assembly, you can paint the new bench with any colors that are used for exterior work.
To work, you will need the most common set of tools that every owner probably has:
- pencil;
- plane;
- hammer;
- roulette;
- screwdriver;
- hacksaw for wood;
- chisel.
Important! Dimensions are given as an example; they may vary due to material and scale..
Manufacturing process and drawings
To make a bench to give their own hands, you need to make drawings on which the bench will be built. First of all, determine the future height of the bench and the number of legs. There are generally accepted standards, which are recommended to adhere to: the width of the seat should be about half a meter, up to 600 mm long, the height of the back varies from 350-500 mm.
Having a finished drawing, you can already decide how much material will be needed for the bench. Also at that stage, decide which plan the benches will be: transformer garden benches, portable, dug in, because the additional consumption of materials depends on it.
Following the parameters of the drawing, you can easily make a bench. To begin to process the surface of the material, remove the notches. After that, cut the boards of the sizes you need. Using the jigsaw, you can cut the curly parts of the bench. Make holes for screws and fasten all the elements together.
Did you know? To the bench did not threaten the rain and slush, it can be varnished or painted. It is important to use high-quality paint or varnish, because expired or low-quality products only harm the product..
How to install the product
Simple garden benches after assembly with their own hands can only be set. Even at the stage of creating a drawing, you had to determine whether the bench will be stationary or it can be transferred. In any case, you need to strengthen the design of the bench. To do this, screw the two beams to the front and rear sides of the bench. In the event of a shortage of material, you can use one beam, but install it transversely. After that, dig a bench into the ground if it was made for this.
How to make a bench around a tree, and what you need to do
An excellent option would be to install a bench around a tree. So you will always enjoy the views of your garden from the shade and coolness of the tree. The easiest way is to buy a bench, but make a bench to give their own hands, and then spend on it the evening, it will be much nicer.
First of all, you need to choose a tree, around which the bench will be located. Immediately it is worth making a reservation that for these purposes the young tree will not work. First, it looks ridiculous, and secondly, because of the growth of the tree in the future, problems will arise, and the tree will simply force out the shop.
Important! Choose a tree as thick as possible, then garden benches made with your own hands around the tree will look very aesthetic. It is not recommended to build a bench around the fruit tree, as falling fruit will spoil the view and prevent you from sitting on the bench..
Material and tool preparation
Given that the bench will always be under the open sky, you need to choose the right kind of tree, as it will be constantly exposed to the environment. For such a shop the ideal is a bar of oak, pine, teak. Each detail of the future bench should be sanded and treated with an antiseptic solution, special oil or wood impregnation. Particular attention should be paid to the front side of the boards, since they account for the most moisture. After complete impregnation of wood, it should remain at least 15 hours.
It is important to prepare in advance all the necessary construction tools and materials. To create a bench around a tree, you will need:
- drill or screwdriver;
- hacksaw, circular saw or jigsaw;
- sandpaper or sanding machine;
- impregnation for wood;
- boards for supporting posts;
- boards for the bearing part;
- screws and bolts;
- If you want, prepare a paint or varnish for finishing work.
The benches and benches for the dacha have a standard pattern from which you can make a start while making your own bench. For example, to make a square shop around a tree, seat height should be 50 cm (legs will reach to the ground), and the seat will be 45-50 cm wide.
Bench assembly
First of all, you need to assemble the support legs. There will be four of them and each will need 4 boards 10 cm wide, 60 long and 2 boards 40 cm each. They need to be fastened with screws. After that, take 4 boards for each section. If the thickness of the trunk in the girth of about 160 cm, you will need to leave a distance of 15 cm from the crown, this means that the length of the board of the inner square will be equal to one meter. Based on these dimensions, the second bar should be 127 cm, the third - 154. The longest bar should be 180 cm.
It is necessary to fasten the short boards with screws or bolts to the supporting posts, leaving a gap of 2 cm, and attach the following strips in the same way.
Did you know? If you do not leave a gap between the boards, the water will not flow freely to the ground, because of which the shop will begin to rot. Also clearances will facilitate the process of cleaning the leaves and debris from the benches.The final stage of the construction of the bench is the treatment of the shop with varnish or paint. If necessary, re-grind roughness on logs.
How to make a transforming bench with your own hands
The transforming bench is a successful combination of practicality and beauty. These indicators are especially valued in the country or in a private house, where free space is often in short supply. A folded bench takes up very little space. With a flick of the wrist, you can get a folding country table with benches from an ordinary bench.
What you need for a garden table
To create such a bench you need a bar, it is best to use ash, beech, oak or birch.
To make it, you will need:
- hacksaw;
- roulette;
- sandpaper;
- chisel;
- bolts and nuts;
- drill.
Detailed instructions for making
The dacha transformer bench consists of benches with a back where the back turns into a table-top. Benches should be of different widths. All parts need to be well sanded. Instructions for manufacturing involves:
- To start legs are made. To make them, you need to cut 8 identical segments of a length of 70 cm. On each segment make oblique cuts both from the top and bottom.
- After that you need make a frame under the bench. To do this, cut four 40 cm and four 170 cm segment. It is important to cut the corners so that together we have 2 identical rectangles. For the connection using screws or nails.
- To finally form the seat, you need to make a frame reinforcing elements. To do this, nail a wooden bar in increments of 50 cm. Thanks to this, you will receive protection from deformation and division into sections.
- Indent 10 centimeters from the corners, attach the legs to the seat. It is important to fasten immediately to 2-3 bolts, this will ensure maximum structural strength. In the bars in advance make grooves in which the bolt heads are hidden, and the excess parts of the nuts are cut with a hacksaw.
- Further the back is made or tabletop (this will depend on the position in which it will stand). From the timber you need to make a rectangle 70x170 cm, which is connected by stiffeners from the inside.
- Now you can combine the resulting components into one design. First you need to cut off two beams of 40 cm in size. They are mounted between the bench and a large shield in the extreme corner points. You need to arrange them both on the bottom and on the side of the bench. Cut two more bars 110 cm long and attach them to another bench. In this case, they are fastened not from the near side, but closer to the center, otherwise you will not be able to properly connect the benches to each other.
A log shop is a simple and unique design.
The shop from a log strongly differs from analogs from other materials. It combines functionality as well as practicality. As the name implies, the basis for the bench is a log.
Necessary tool
To make a bench from a log, you need to cook: 
- chainsaw;
- ax;
- pencil;
- paint or varnish;
- compasses and schel.
- for the base you need a log;
- additional logs;
- board (back);
- posts.
Action list
The principle of operation is very simple. First of all, determine the place in which the bench will stand. Clean the main log from the knots and branches. Mark the places where the cuts will be made.
Important! Secure the log well before working with the chainsaw.You need to do all the work very carefully, after sawing off too much, you can not continue to work with the same log. Smaller logs will be used as bench supports. To fix the entire structure well, make recesses in them. When all components are ready, put them in the right place. Use self-tapping screws to connect the supports to the seat. After that, attach the back. Initially, it is attached to the posts, and then to the supports of the bench.
Using these instructions, you can build your own log benches and show them to your family.
