Guide 53

Bench around a tree

12 h · 2 weekends★★☆materials €196 – 326

A hexagon from 18 boards mitred at 30° around the trunk: 6 seats, a backrest by the trunk, you sit facing the garden. Two halves on four screws — when the tree thickens in fifteen years, the inner boards get shortened.

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12 pages A4 3 illustrations dimensioned drawings cutting plan shopping list

What's in this guide

How much room to leave the trunk — the tree grows, the bench doesn't
Four details that keep the bench in shape: mitre, leg, joint of the halves, backrest
Nothing is anchored into the ground or into the tree — how it stands up
Without a backrest, a bigger trunk, a table around the tree — variants
The cutting plan and shopping list on a separate page

PDF, 12 A4 pages to print for the workshop · 3 project illustrations · shopping list on a separate page so it can be torn out and taken to the store. You download it right after payment, access is for life.

This guide is also in the bundle Garden seating — 7 guides together for €34.

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Before you start building

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