Outdoor Benches

Free Plans for Building Wooden Outdoor Benches

I have built many outdoor benches over the years, some for my customers and some for my family. This collection of bench plans highlights my favorite designs. I use a variety of old fence boards and new materials from the lumber yard to construct my wooden benches. The most common materials I use are Western Red Cedar, Redwood, or Pressure Treated Pine.

I built this outdoor bench entirely from recycled cedar fence boards. For the complete plans and material list, click here.

These wooden bench plans are easy to build, and if you construct your project from excess deck boards or other materials, you can save money and prevent good lumber from reaching a landfill. You can adjust the dimensions on all these plans to customize the bench to suit your needs.

I built easy bench plans using two 10-foot 2x10s and a small amount of hardware. I saw this bench in a state park and was intrigued by its simplicity. I later discovered the bench to be an Aldo Leopold design.

This outdoor bench is made exclusively from old fence boards. Like the other benches, you can change the dimensions of the basic design to make any size bench you want.

Outdoor Benches - Plans

Wooden benches are lots of fun to build, and when you finish your bench-building project, you have a place to rest. I built the Aldo Leopold Bench (easy bench plans) from pressure-treated pine. The material cost was minimal (wood, carriage bolts, and deck screws) and took about an hour to build. Once the pressure-treated material thoroughly dried (we gave it a month in the Texas sunshine), we painted it with semi-gloss latex paint.

I constructed the rustic-style wooden benches from old fence boards. The only cost was the galvanized finish nails, which didn't amount to much. The rustic bench took longer to build than the other benches on mycarpentry.com, but it was still relatively simple. It took about 1.5 hours to cut and assemble all of the parts.

The deck bench style wooden bench can complement your deck project. I once made a small bench from excess scrap material from a deck I was building for some customers in east Texas. It was a perfect finishing touch for the project, and the customers loved it. The outdoor bench matched the deck perfectly since I made it from the same lumber and used the same design as the deck.

I hope you enjoy building these easy benches. If you find something in the instructions that you have a question about, don't hesitate to contact us.