How to Build Wooden Garden Chairs
Gardening can bring beauty to your home. With beautiful gardens come the need to appreciate the appearance of them. Garden chairs allow you to sit out near the garden and enjoy the hard work you have put in, as well as the beauty of the plants growing.
What you will need:
Drill, drill bit, 2x10x8 pressure-treated board, measuring tape, pencil, goggles, jigsaw
Directions:
- Put on your safety goggles to protect your eyes from sawdust or loose particles. Using the jigsaw, cut the board into two four-foot sections of equal size.
- Taking out one of your boards, draw out a measurement of a five-inch section of the board, located directly in its center. Continue marking this section along the board, stopping at ten-inches from the opposite end of the board.
- Cut out the sections just marked off using your saw. Cut the edges off the board until the spot where you stopped marking. This will leave the last ten-inches on the board uncut. This will leave a "T"-shaped board remaining. Dispose the other sections.
- Take out your second board and measure 13 1/2-inches from the end of that board. Measure out the center of that section and put a mark in the center. Make a measurement of 5 1/4-inches surrounding this mark. This will give you a cut of 5 1/4-inches wide and two inches in height. Make a mark of the rectangular shape.
- Using the measurement just made, drill a hole into its center. The hole you use should be large enough for a jigsaw to fit through. Insert the jigsaw in the hole and use it to cut out the marked rectangle.
- Take out the initial five-inch section from the first board and place it into the rectangular hole from the second board. You will then cut an angle from each of the two boards so that it touches the ground. This will help stabilize the chair.