Tag: outdoor
Large outdoor rustic wood tree branch trellis
Large outdoor rustic wood tree branch trellis
Mosaic tile outdoor serving tray
Rustic Tree Branch Wood Adirondack Chair
Here is a rustic wood Adirondack chair made from pressure treated dimensional lumber and shaved tree branches. The tree branches were harvested from a Black Olive Tree on the property. That sounds better than I was trimming the trees in my backyard and had some branches. The basic design was taken from a plan in some woodworking book I got in some library or bookstore. I really don’t keep accurate records on all things wood and wood-like. I’ll let some of you ‘history detectives’ figure that out. The rustic wood chair is more comfortable than it looks. This chair is my first experiment with
‘green woodworking’. What is green woodworking? I’m assuming you’re asking. I shall cut and paste a description of green woodworking for you. Because that’s just the kind of guy I am. The following is from Wikipedia. Which they got from the British Broadcasting Corporation. I don’t know why the BBC would have information on woodworking. But it is the BBC, so it must be good. Enjoy!
Green woodworking is a form of wood craft or in broad terms, carpentry, that works unseasoned or “green” timber into finished items. Unseasoned wood is wood that has been freshly felled or preserved by storing it in a water-filled trough or pond to maintain its naturally high moisture content. Green wood is much softer than seasoned timber and is therefore much easier to shape with hand tools. As moisture leaves the unseasoned wood, shrinkage occurs and the green woodworker can use this shrinkage to ensure tight joints in their work. To enhance the effect of the shrinkage, one half of a joint may be forcibly over-dried in a simple kiln while its encapsulating component is left green. The components tighten against each other as the parts exchange moisture and approach equilibrium with the surrounding environment. The swelling of the dry tenon inside the shrinking “green” mortise makes for an incredibly tight and permanent joint despite a lack of adhesives. Bodging is a traditional green woodworking occupation, where chair components were made in the woods and exported to workshops where the complete chairs were assembled by furniture makers (called cabinetmakers in the UK). Green woodworking has seen a recent revival due to its increased media coverage and the renaissance of hand tool woodworking in general. [1]
Reference: [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qsc3j
Wooden Beach Folding Chair
This Rustic wood folding chair is made for the beach. It has never actually been to the beach. It has heard about the beach and even seen pictures, but it has never been. The folding chair has basically been on the front porch watching the cars going by. This wood chair has also seen the occasional Jehovas Witness as well as traveling salesmen selling landscaping services, magazine subsriptions and automobile windshields. Yes, a man once offered to examine my windshield for free to see if I needed a new one and lo and behold he found a problem. It was some kind of blemish, perhaps a nick or scratch of some sort. This man had the eyes of an eagle. Anyway, I passed on his windshield replacement or repair services. But I did keep the free window inspection. The chair and I where both bewildered. Anyway, getting back to the subject at hand. It was made from a discarded wooden shipping container. That perhaps was used to ship something somewhat large. The wood container was disassembled (obviously) and then hand planed by hand. The slats where then rounded with a drawknife and then but together with exterior grade wood screws. I can’t remember what type of finish I used because it was made about ten or so years ago. The reclaimed wood chair has a weathered look, mainly due to the weather. This folding beach chair has seen better days and I have seen better chairs. There are actually two of these wooden chairs. The other one looks exactly like the other. So just hit the ‘refresh’ button on your web browser and it will be just like seeing the other one. If you are interested in some other rustic woodcrafts I have made go to the gallery page at this website or click on the Etsy link to go to my store “BradLuthinWoodcrafts”. Thank you for your time.
Outdoor Garden Bench
Here is a outdoor rustic woodland bench made from reclaimed wood. Ok the wood is not reclaimed. It was claimed from Home Depot. Of course Home Depot claimed in from a tree so in that case I was reclaiming it from them. And why I’m correcting my previous statements the wood bench is not really in the ‘woodland’ style. Although there are no hard and fast rules about what constitutes the ‘woodland style’. I just like saying the word woodland. It is all the rage in the mom groups all across the suburban landscape. The rustic wood bench is based on a plain by black and decker. It has a scalloped back and rounded arm rests. This gives it the look and feel of garden log furniture. This rustic bench fits in with any garden decor. Including the red hot new woodland gardens. Whatever a woodland garden looks like. Even if someone had a fairy garden and those fairies (not the one with the garden) but the fairies for whom the garden is for, had their own garden for humans or some type of ‘human like’ form, then the bench could be used for them. That was a really long run on sentence. Was it not? Moving on. This rustic bench was made to replace a worn out adirondack bench made from reclaimed plywood. That is really irrelevant, but then again most of this post is so not relevant. This garden bench is very sturdy. And can support many a persons. It is as strong as a ship. If that ship happens to be made of pressure treated two by fours. Then is also finished with a waterproof stain/varnish for plenty of outdoor use. This rustic bench is also slightly more comfortable that it looks. Which is to say it is a little bit less comfortable. It would go great with other rustic furniture, such as, but not limited to log tables, wood Adirondack chairs, plants, planters, plant stands, things made with tree branches and many other garden, rustic, woodland and wooden decor.