Promotions for garden furniture - when are prices lower?
When looking for materials or ready-made sets, it is worth paying attention to promotions for garden furniture, which appear at the end of the summer season (August-September). This is when stores sell off collections, making room for new products, making it possible to buy boards or ready-made pieces at attractive prices. Sometimes promotions also appear before the start of the season as an incentive, but you should rather set yourself up for a gradual increase in late March and early April.
Why make wood furniture yourself?
Self-made garden furniture is a great way to develop valuable manual skills, even if the first projects are unsuccessful, we gain experience in woodworking. Once you become proficient, you can attempt to create more advanced, personalized furniture that will become private works of art.
The motivation to create garden furniture yourself will also be the desire to save money. Of course, expenses for materials and tools are inevitable, and we will also have to spend a lot of time, especially if we have no experience. Before taking action, it is worthwhile to use one of the cost calculators available on the Internet and compare the expenses of making wood garden furniture yourself with buying it in a store.
Garden furniture - choice of material
Among the available materials from which we can make furniture for the upcoming garden season, wood seems to be the best option. It is a relatively inexpensive material, easy to work with and renewable. Instead of tedious maintenance, impregnation is enough. In terms of aesthetics, wood gives the garden a more cozy, warm atmosphere. And let's not forget the ecological approach - buying wood from local logging supports sustainability.
Wooden garden furniture - material selection and storage
The most popular raw material for wooden garden furniture is durable wood, such as pine, spruce or larch. To prevent cracking and warping of the material, the boards must be properly dried. It is recommended to store them in an airy and covered place, where they will not be exposed to direct contact with moisture. Proper protection of the wood from the very beginning is a guarantee that garden furniture made of boards will remain in great shape for many years.
Wooden garden furniture - cutting tools
Once we have the material prepared, the next step is to check the necessary tools for woodworking. To separate the boards into smaller pieces and give them the desired dimensions, you can use:
Hand saw - for simple, short cuts
Circular saw - allows you to quickly and precisely cut more boards
Jigsaw - allows you to cut curves and non-standard shapes
A good fit of the fragments makes it much easier to join the pieces later, which will result in stable wooden garden furniture.
Wooden garden furniture - planing and sanding.
Planing allows you to level the surface of the boards and remove any irregularities. You can do this by hand or use an electric planer - depending on your experience and preference. Next comes sanding, which smooths the wood and prepares it for further processing. You will achieve the best results by varying the sandpaper gradation from coarser to finer, or by using an oscillating sander. In this way, garden furniture made of wood will not only be practical, but also pleasant to the touch.
Wooden garden furniture - Gluing the pieces together.
Proper bonding of boards is the key to durable, solid structures. When creating wooden garden furniture, waterproof wood glue and additional reinforcements in the form of dowels, screws or metal angles will be helpful. It is important to properly tighten the pieces with carpenter's clamps and leave them to dry completely. This will give your garden furniture stability and keep its qualities for a long time.
Wooden garden furniture - Impregnation and protection.
The last step, and one of the most important, is to protect your garden furniture from moisture, sunlight or pests. For this purpose, impregnants, varnishes, varnish stains or oils are used. Apply thin layers, waiting until each layer has dried completely. If you have the option, it's best to store garden furniture under a canopy or use protective covers during winter or prolonged rainfall.
Summary
The approaching spring is a good opportunity to refresh our garden. Self-made garden furniture can help with this. And if our garden is overgrown and the first necessary action in our green corner will be to cut the grass, it's worth checking out robotic mowers and traditional mowers before decorating the garden.
