How to choose a garden bench

Garden benches are very common and extremely practical, functional and able to embellish and give personality to outdoor spaces such as gardens, verandas or terraces. By setting up a garden bench in your outdoor environment, you can create a relaxing corner where you can sit, relax and enjoy the beautiful days of spring and summer. With the arrival of the summer season you spend more time outdoors and you want to renew your garden or outdoor space with chairs, benches, tables and in general new furnishing elements able to brighten up your garden and make it more welcoming.

How to choose the best garden bench to be placed in your own spaces, able to express maximum functionality and at the same time a touch of style and design able to enhance your spaces? Here are some indications and advice to help you choose an outdoor bench: a practical guide to purchase.

Practicality, functionality and design of a garden bench

The arrival of spring is always a great renewal; the summer season offers the opportunity to live more time in open spaces and if you are lucky enough to have a garden on your property, what could be better than a Saturday afternoon spent with your family or friends, in your own green space, living moments of extreme relaxation and carefreeness.

To enjoy your outdoor spaces to the fullest, deciding to buy and prepare a bench in your garden is certainly the ideal solution to enhance the aesthetic aspect and ensure maximum comfort for you and your guests.

When choosing a garden bench to be placed in your spaces, you will have to consider many aspects; first of all, you will have to pay the utmost attention to the materials used to make the furniture.

A garden bench must be able to express maximum functionality and guarantee maximum comfort; at the same time the furniture must respond to your tastes and stylistic needs, to enhance your outdoor spaces and integrate harmoniously with the other furnishings in your garden.

Materials for the construction of a garden bench

Regardless of the model of garden bench that you decide to buy and the style that it will be characterized, it will be important to pay attention to the materials with which the piece of furniture will have been made; in this regard our advice is to avoid the purchase of excessively cheap furniture, made with low quality materials; these furnishings will deteriorate quickly over time, making it necessary to replace them, with a further increase in costs.

Also for the purchase of a garden bench, orienting yourself towards quality is always very important, both to guarantee maximum functionality and efficiency and from a purely economic point of view. Another element that you will have to consider with particular care, is the relative aspect of the dimensions of the furniture: before purchasing a garden bench, it will be advisable to calculate precisely the space you will have available, where you intend to position the furniture, orienting your choice towards a model that fully reflects your space requirements. Do not approach the aspect of size with superficiality: you will risk buying a piece of furniture that is too small or too large, not compatible with the size of your space.

Wooden garden benches

Wood is a material endowed with a great suggestion, able to give a furnishing element an inexpressible warmth from other materials. Wooden garden benches are undoubtedly the most widespread and the most commercially successful. For the realization of quality wooden benches, resistant raw materials are used and subjected to specific treatments that give the furniture the maximum resistance to the wear and tear of time and the action of weather and atmospheric agents.

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A wooden garden bench is ideal to complete the furnishing of a space characterized by a retro design and at the same time to enhance a space characterized by more modern stylistic lines. Lovers of minimalist and essential styles will be able to focus on a furniture characterized by simple and squared lines, which do not include armrests in the structure: these benches are usually made with the help of wooden slats placed both on the seat and backrest.

Lovers of a more vintage style can instead orient their choice towards a wooden garden bench made with the aid of wood and wrought iron.

Garden benches in stone and cement

Garden benches in stone and cement are certainly more expensive and in some ways not very functional and practical. The materials used make it almost impossible to move the furniture.

Also the comfort will certainly be lower compared to furniture made with the help of wood or other types of materials. These furnishing elements are certainly more suitable for historical garden contexts and characterized by a classic design.

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Plastic garden benches

If you prefer practicality to aesthetics and have a smaller budget, you can direct your choice to a plastic or plastic garden bench. These structures certainly represent an excellent solution to have a corner where you can sit and enjoy moments of light-heartedness and relaxation, facing a relatively reduced expense, compared to the purchase of a bench made with other types of materials. Today there is the possibility to buy furniture made with resistant and quality plastic materials, able to preserve itself over time and discreetly resist the action of atmospheric agents.

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Circular garden benches

If your outdoor spaces are characterized by the presence of a discreet number of trees, you can arrange a structure that will allow you to enjoy pleasant moments of relaxation in the shade of the branches. For this purpose you can decide to purchase a circular garden bench.

These types of structures are made with the help of different materials: for their production they tend to use metal and wood.

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Garden benches equipped with container

Finally, you can decide to buy garden benches equipped with a container. These structures are usually made with the help of wood or plastic materials.