Garden Furniture

[luverofplants]

What type of furniture is best for using in gardens?

Also what are the best materials are to be used when building agarden furniture? :)

[Newt]

Hi Luverofplants,

Aluminum is very popular these days and there is alot available these days that look like wrought iron.* I would think that the style of your garden would dictate the type of furniture you use.

If you are considering wood, teak is excellent, but I would only use or purchase sustainably harvested teak. Alaska yellow cedar is also good as well as preservative treated southern yellow pine.* Here's a site that explains sustainably harvested wood.
http://www.windfalllumber.com/pages/cert_wood.html

Newt

[backyardgardener]

I agree with Newt.. .I have aluminum set which I purchased from Costco.*

If you were going to make your furniture, it's all based on your design and how long you would like it to last.* Teak is the prefered, followed by cedar or swamp cedar.* Some people like to dabble into making wicker chairs out of willow branches.

I use to make furniture out of drift wood.* I can hear the chain saw now.

Backyard

[kit]

use wood!!

[nickroqs]

I personally think wood looks a lot better than the aluminum many people use today, but it's all about personal taste and what you like.

[backyardgardener]

It also has to do with your location. I'm in the PNW and I know I could use wood (teak) but due to the maintenance, I elected to use aluminum.

Backyard

[janicepatio1]

If you were traveling to accomplish your furniture, it's all based on your architecture and how continued you would like it to last.* Teak is the prefered, followed by cedar or swamp cedar.* Some humans like to dabble into authoritative cobweb chairs out of willow branches.


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[Jotham Magnus]

Any garden furniture made from recycled timber as i do not agree with the felling of our trees, all garden furniture made uses natural resources in one way or another.

[blackopaldirect]

Ceder is the besat material that can be used to make garden furniture