Garden Storage Bench
A Garden Bench is great for relaxing outdoors, but for small gardens or patios it becomes necessary to use your space wisely and so Peter and Annalien build a Garden Bench with storage. Watch how they give you a step by step guide on how to build your own storage bench.
What you will need:
Tools | Material list |
Circular saw plus skil guide | 20mm meranti or saligna |
PST 18 JigSaw | storage box bottom 1000 mm x 500mm – 1 piece |
PSR 18 Cordless drill | storage box front and back 1000 x 350mm – 2 pieces |
PSM 18 Cordless Sander | Storage box sides 460 mm x 350mm – 2 pieces (grain in long direction) |
Router plus parralel guide | seat back slat 1000mm x 50mm – 1 piece |
seat slat 1040mm x 470 mm – 1 piece | |
front legs 80mm x 500mm – 2 pieces | |
front legs 60mm x 500mm – 2 pieces | |
Back legs 1000mm x80mm – 2 pieces | |
Back legs 1000mm x60mm – 2 pieces | |
Back rest 1040mm x 150mm – 2 pieces | |
Piano hinge 1000mm – 1 piece | |
hook and eye +/- 75 – 100mm | |
Waterbased varnish with a stain in. NB not grip seal it colours too much, we need to see the grain. We can also stain and then cover with clear varnish. | |
wood glue | |
wood filler to match stain | |
4 x 40mm screws | |
piece of wood for tooth brush holder – drift wood can work |
Steps to build the bench
- Box Section
- Once all your pieces of wood are cut to size according to the material list, mark off where the sides join onto the bottom of the box section.
- Drill all the pilot holes after marking off where they go.
- Join all the sides to the bottom, then join all the sides together using screws.
- With the box built, you can now router a decorative groove all around the box using a parallel guide attached to your router.
- Attach the back slat to the top of the seat that the hinges will be attached to.
- Grooves can be made to the seat if you require them using the router.
- Legs
- Mark out where legs join together and mark for pilot holes (only one side of the leg needs pilot holes)
- Drill the holes on one side of each leg.
- Mark out and cut shape on bottom of the legs and back legs using a jigsaw.
- Join legs together with screws
- Join the legs to the seat box with screws
- Back slats
- Cut out the shape for top slat using jigsaw if you want a shape to it
- Attach the slats to back legs using a piece of wood as a spacer in between the slats
- Sand the complete project before staining or varnishing, allow to dry well then repeat the process
- Hinge
- Attach the hinge to the box lid and then attach it to the slat on the box section by first lining them up.
Get the project building plan