In any photo of a spectacular garden you will always notice that there is equally beautiful garden furniture.
The furniture sets are usually weather-resistant and designed for durability and extended used in extreme weather conditions.
It is unclear where the trends for this kind of furnishing started but the oldest are preserved in the gardens of Pompeii, Italy. Various designs were actually inspired from the outdoors of Italy like Tuscan style probably because the insouciant and country living is so contagious from this country.
If you are someone who wants to redecorate your garden or are just starting out on your project to create the perfect garden using outdoor furniture, there are a whole range of books that will help you realize your goal.
These books give fabulously innovative ideas and useful guides and instructions to help you see the endless possibilities to transform your patio or garden into a spectacular place for your family and guests to gather.
Building Adirondack Furniture: The Art, the History, and the How-To by John D. Wagner
This book provides you with useful information about the history, kind of wood to use, how to assemble and making use of scraps to build Adirondack furniture. The Adirondack chair, with its distinctive sloped back, inclined seat and high, wide arms, is considered the most comfortable piece of outdoor furniture ever made.
Shop Tested Outdoor Furniture You Can Make With Wood
From the editors of Wood Magazine, here’s a workbook that will challenge you to try to make your own outdoor pieces. It is packed with shop-tested projects for every skill level.
Lazy day porch swings, barn birdhouses, folding snack tables, and party-time carts are just a few of the many projects illustrated in this workbook.
The book has step-by-step instructions with photos that will help you picture the results you want. It also gives diagrams that will help you see precisely how all the pieces fit together. And you will learn all about the furniture parts, materials they’re made of and their dimensions.
The Outdoor Room (Illustrated) by Jamie Durie
A renowned Australian landscaper and TV personality, Jamie Durie is a committed environmentalist and pioneer of the Outdoor Room concept in Australia. His personal website is jamiedurie.com.
On his site anyone can have access to his inspiring concepts and projects. In the book Outdoor Room, Jamie emphasized the essence of outdoor furniture in creating a spectacular garden. Jamie said,”Outdoor furniture must be pleasing to the eye.”
The Outdoor Room is a manual which carries valuable information, useful tips and effective ideas that will spark your creativity. The book provided 200 lavish high-resolution color photographs of how walls, floors, lights, outdoor furniture, water features are united to create a functional and uniquely beautiful garden.
Great Outdoor 2 X 4 Furniture by Stevie Henderson with Mark Baldwin
This book inspires you on creating your outdoor project with 21 illustrated projects to build.
Adirondack chair, footstool, plant pedestal, garden chair, cottage mailbox, hammock stand are just few of the projects mentioned in this book.
This book is intended for those who want to build their own outdoor furniture but lack woodworking skills.
The projects included in the book are all do-able and the illustrated instructions are simplified so anybody can understand.
Materials, tools and techniques were all provided in this book. .