We'd like to help by suggesting your next project—this garden bench. Start with seven pieces of lumber and a handful of hardware. Spend a couple of free afternoons cutting and boring.

In the garden ... build a bench using rough-cut lumber, as I did, or with standard construction-grade planks, composite lumber or even recycled plastic. Using these DIY workbench plans, you ...

The resulting fluid lines and graceful cut-work complement plantings and architecture. Built of any exterior grade lumber ... a hall or a sunroom? The garden bench plan has full-sized templates ...