Category: Outdoor
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DIY A-Frame Surfboard Rack
This is a freestanding A-frame rack built to hold surfboards upright, no wall mounting required. It leans against a wall on its own two angled legs, with a plywood tray underneath to catch the base of each board and a row of angled wood dividers along the top rail to keep the boards separated. Project…
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DIY Chevron Patio Set Built From Reclaimed Pallet Wood
This patio set started as a truck bed full of free wood shipping pallets and turned into five separate pieces: a chevron-top dining table with two matching benches, a smaller accent table with a completely different four-way “pinwheel” chevron top, several straight-slat stools, and a two-tier plant stand. It’s the largest single build in the…
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DIY Pallet Wood Lounge Chair
A Lounge Chair Built From Broken-Down Pallets This one started as a stack of pallets in the bed of the truck. By the time it was done, it was a low-slung outdoor lounge chair: the kind you sit back into rather than up on, with a reclined backrest and a seat that sits close to…
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Farmhouse Table & Benches in a Walnut Stain Finish
The same farmhouse trestle-table design as the shop’s other outdoor dining sets, this time followed through the walnut-stained finish specifically — bench-frame joinery, sanding, staining, and the finished table and benches at dusk.
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Modern Outdoor Bench with Open-Frame Legs
A modern outdoor bench with a distinctive open, cut-out rectangular leg and a slatted seat, left in a natural wood tone — shown here built more than once, from staged tools to a finished row of benches in the driveway.
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The No-Weld Kettle Grill Cart: A Wood-Built Table for a Weber Kettle
A cart built specifically to house a charcoal kettle grill — the tabletop has a large circular opening routed to fit the grill, leaving an open shelf below for its legs and wheel, and the whole thing is built from wood with no welding involved.
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Raised Garden Bed With a Shade Cover
A raised garden bed built at standing height, with a pitched frame overhead wrapped in a sheer mesh shade cover — including the grooved corner-post joinery and the separate shade-frame build.
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Farmhouse Table and Benches for Backyard Entertaining
A farmhouse-style outdoor dining table and matching benches, built with a splayed trestle base and an X-brace stretcher — shown here in both raw pine and a warmer stained finish, from framing through the finished set at the table.
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DIY Chevron Outdoor Bench Built From Reclaimed Wood
An outdoor bench built around a mitered chevron pattern on both the seat and backrest, using reclaimed boards on a new pine A-frame base — including a close look at how the center miter joint comes together.
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Black Farmhouse Porch Bench with a Triple X-Back Design
A farmhouse-style porch bench built from dimensional lumber, featuring a triple X-back lattice back and finished in solid black for a clean, modern-farmhouse look.