House Digest on MSN

Don't Toss An Old Log When You Can Transform It Into A Beautiful Plant Stand

Dead trees are good for the garden, providing food and shelter for critters. Turn an old log into a life-giving plant feature ...
Backyard Garden Lover on MSN

Make Gardening Easier With a Garden Potting Bench

If you’re a gardener, chances are you’ve come across more than one person who had a nice garden potting bench. You probably ...
Wall Street Journal

A French Bench That Will Transform Your Garden

THEN In 2013, the British Museum exhibited some 250 objects archaeologists had recovered from the site of ill-fated Pompeii, preserved in the hardened ash. Among them, a garden bench that suggested ...
Inhabitat

Matteo Cibic’s Tree Trolley is a Mobile Garden Bench That Can be Parked Just Like a Car!

Transforming a dense concrete jungle like Milan into a haven of vegetation is no easy task, but artist Matteo Cibic has come up with a clever way to reintroduce plant life into the barren metropolis ...
The Washington Post

Fixing a sagging garden bench

Q: We purchased a wood-and-metal outdoor bench years ago. When weather started to weaken the wood slats on the seat, I obtained polylumber slats in similar dimensions, hoping to avoid rot. I painted ...
Sarasota Magazine

It's a Classic: The Lutyens Garden Bench

Sit right down and smell the roses. Created by English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) for a Gertrude Jekyll-designed garden, this arched slat bench has become the gold standard for romantic ...
The Gazette

Fix a garden bench whose middle is bottoming out

Answer: As you discovered, most plastic lumber sags easily. Manufacturers warn that real wood, not plastic lumber, should be used for the support structure on deck boards, and they advise spacing the ...