Posted on August 23, 2010.
What's better, a bench or picnic table and chairs for the garden? Also can you leave a picnic bench outside all year? Does she need a blanket?
What's best for you depends on where you live and how much you want to spend. For me, cost is an important issue, and frankly, you can get great furniture in stores like Wal-Mart Lowes or even for the lowest price possible. Here's what to look for:
Lightweight: You'll need to move for cleaning or upgrading, or even to store for winter to avoid iron or steel or heavy pieces of large wood.
Easy to clean table tops in glass or similar hard surfaces that do not stain look better over time shows that the timber of bleach or rings. Buy only what you can clean with a hose.
Avoid the woods: For furniture that says the sun and rain, the wood is not the best choice. It discolor, crack, warp and lose its beauty quickly when exposed to the elements every day. If you want to build a picnic table yourself, using the lumber new composite made from recycled plastics. Although heavy, it lasts forever, does not get chips and take the extremes of hot and cold, wet and dry.
Exploit cushions cushions light fabric can transform a poor looking chair, chair or love seat in a real fashion statement in the garden. Cushions also protect you against a seat that was very hot or very cold due to weather extremes. The cushions are a universal problem solver you can sew or buy cheaply at discount stores.
A picnic bench can be left outside all year UN-covered, if the timber has been treated properly. Some of the discussions are good, you do not get on the seat to say, like those in the pub gardens.
Patio sets need space for storage shed or garage, then fold the best. but cushions can get mold. And then there is, in and out of the sun or rain.
we have both a large garden. but we use the bench more.
Roundtable and chairs gives you a "feeling, everyone equally. They are also more easily moved to and from the shade of a picnic table. All chairs can be turned to face the same direction, for example to watch the Easter egg hunt where children play ball.
Picnic benches are nice, but they do not offer much variety in the indictments of seats. A bench should be treated with waterproofing last long if you live in an extremely harsh winter.
Depends on the quality of the wood product you buy. Some can be left right in time, but most of the advantages of being stored in winter.
As for this style is a matter of personal preference. Personally, picnic benches just end up annoying everyone because everyone has to sit in the same position at the table and there is no return. If there are chairs, everyone can choose their ease, sitting in front of bed to eat or rest before the next hot dog alert.
For me, table and chairs are more suitable for the garden that the picnic bench. With table and chairs, giving everyone equal opportunity and equal opportunity to engage in a conversation. You can leave the picnic bench all year, but it also depends on the quality and type of picnic bench you have. I suggest you choose the tables and chairs made of stone to be more surprising that he adds the natural character of your garden.