Garden Bench...recycled wood

[Lee Brubaker]

Hi All:

We had a 14 year old privacy arbor covered with vines which became rather grungy looking so dismantled it. I salvaged the spruce construction lumber to build this bench.

Thanks for looking.

Lee

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[CHJ]

Well that looks more than good enough for another 14 years, nice job Lee.

 

[Waka]

Lee

I likie the bench very much, well done and thanks for posting.

 

[RogerS]

Very nice, Lee. Don't suppose you took any WIP pictures?

Roger

 

[RPM]

Nice work...I like it :wink:

 

[GCR]

Very nice work Lee, gracious style and excellent colour choice.

Bob

 

[Lee Brubaker]

Sorry Rodger....no work in progress pic's. I dumped the Microsoft Windows 98SE which Microsoft recently mothballed & replaced it with Windows XP & was in the process of learning the new system...still am.
For those interested, I encountered a design mind block for a bench. I went to google images and printed out a design that I liked that also gave dimension such a length, width, height. I then applied my ruler to the print-out and converted these dimensions to "x"mm = 1" & drew up my own plans to scale. Then applied modifications: such as inclining the back 11 degrees instead of straight, shorten the length of the bench to suit our needs, instead of carrying the end slats up & over the arms I made a curved top piece for the arms...more comfortable. It worked out pretty good. Were I to do another, there are some minor changes I would make....but that is true of all of my projects.
Thank you for your kind comments.

Lee

 

[Lee Brubaker]

I mis-spelled your name in my post.

Lee

 

[wrightclan]

Very nice. I like to see used/free timber put to such well designed use. =D>

Brad