Woodworking Plans 

Outdoor Garden Patio Furniture Plans

Woodworkers can appreciate these outdoor garden patio furniture plans. These plans allow the woodworker to save time and to be productive in the woodworking shop. Order some plans today, build a great wood project, and enjoy the outdoors in furniture that you’ve built!

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Easy, Breezy Glider

Sit back, relax, and enjoy summer evenings with a friend in this comfy glider. To build it, you need only “one-by” and “two-by” cedar boards, screws, and the simple swinging hardware sources at the end of the article.

Approximate materials cost: $130 for cedar, $28 for glider hardware, and $42 for nuts bolts, washers and screws.

Featured in the July 2011 issue of WOOD.

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Comfy Classic Garden Bench
Woodworking Plan

Build the best seat outside the house with this handsome project. We used solid cedar, mortise-and-tenon joinery, waterproof glue, and stainless-steel screws for a bench that will look good for years. Overall dimensions: 50” long, 41” tall.
Featured in the June/July 2006 issue.

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Patio-Perfect Planter Box Woodworking Plan

Spruce up your outdoor spaces with this 19″-tall, cedar-trimmed planter. It accepts up to a 16″ square or round pot for showing off your colorful plantings. For an even more impressive project, add the Flower Tuteur plan (DP-00185) to your Planter Box.
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Picnic Table & Benches Woodworking Plan

Our rustic redwood table has six sides and six matching benches that tuck away underneath.

Measures approximately 63-1/8″ wide and 30″ tall.

NOTE: This plan is available as both a downloadable plan and a Mail-Direct Plan as offered below. To download, view, and print the plan on your computer, you’ll need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If ordering the Downloadable Acrobat Plan, click here for Step-By-Step Instructions on downloading. Or, for a few dollars more, the Mail-Direct Plan (a pre-printed, full-color copy) is shipped directly to you via First Class Mail. You should have the Mail-Direct Plan within 7-10 days of ordering. For faster shipment of the Mail-Direct Plan we offer 2-3 day Priority Mail at an additional cost.

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Garden Bench Woodworking Plan

This contoured, eye-catching bench derives its durability from rock-solid mortise-and-tenon joinery and decay resistant cedar. Bench measures 48″ long.

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Potting Bench Woodworking Plan

Before designing this project, we turned to the horticulture experts at our sister publication, Better Homes and Gardens® magazine. They told us what gardener-friendly features to build into the potting bench. A tough top and easy waste disposal were priorities, so we incorporated a galvanized-metal work surface with a handy waste disposal opening over a plastic garbage can. We also added plastic storage bins concealed by doors, a tool rack and overhead shelf, plus wheels and a handle to make the whole setup mobile. We built our bench from rot-resistant cypress, purchasing random-width 4/4 and 8/4 boards and cutting them to the sizes listed. We chose cypress because we found clear, defect-free boards at our local lumber supplier for about the same price as western red cedar. But, to give you options, we sized the parts so you can build the bench from cedar or pressure-treated lumber available in standard dimensional sizes (1x and 2x stock).

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Patio Party Center Woodworking Plan

A mobile, weatherproof food and beverage server for your outdoor entertaining. To resist the weather we’ve used a marine-grade wood finish and caulked the ice chest lid and drop-leaf table extensions just like a boat deck.

Featured in the August 2001 issue.

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Adirondack Chair & Footstool
Woodworking Plan

Here are two projects that let you spend a lot more time relaxing than building. But don’t let the easy deck-screw-and-bolt-together construction fool you. This duo is both sturdy and supremely comfortable. This plan has 16 pages.

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