Buy Oxford Garden Classic 4-Foot Shorea BenchOxford Garden Classic 4-Foot Shorea Bench Product Description:
- 4-foot bench inspired by the English garden for outdoor use
- Made of shorea wood with mortise and tenon construction
- Easy assembly of 5 pre-assembled pieces
- Weathers to a warm grey or color can be maintained using teak oil
- 48 1/2 inches long, 26 1/2 inches deep and 35 inches high with a seat height of 17 1/4 inches
Product Description
After studying England's finest gardens, we have refined the traditional designs of their garden benches, chairs and tables, manufacturing them to meet today's standards. This Classic Design four-foot garden bench has beautiful hand finished rounded edges which gives our furniture a very pleasing look. This bench is made of shorea, a teak family wood that is more dense and heavy than teak. Shorea requires no finishing and will not rot when left outdoors where rain and sun will damage other lesser quality woods. Left untreated, shorea will weather to a soft warm shade of gray similar to the weathering of teak. Sturdy mortise and tenon construction provides the highest quality joinery that will last for many years. Original color can be maintained by applying a seasonal coat of teak oil.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Great Addition to Yard!
By J. Blackwood
I've been searching for a bench for my small inner-city backyard for months. This one is perfect. And the price is right! It arrived in a timely manner, took 20 minutes to assemble, and now I am enjoying it daily. The bench is sturdy and was surprisingly easy to construct. I'm looking forward to years of use from it. Thanks for making it available, Amazon!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.Great Hardwood Garden Bench For Your English Garden!
By Barron Laycock
I recently bought this four-foot English Garden bench for my small little private cove toward the back of my several acre back yard, and it is surrounded by spruce trees, flowers, and shrubbery. I hauled in crushed stone last fall and dug a hole to place a neat solar streetlamp, and with addition of the bench, I now have a perfect spot for lolling away an hour or so in the coolness of the screen of trees, shrubs, and flowers each morning, and watch the Labradors as they play. I have enjoyed using it since the sturdy construction easily supports someone my size (at 260 lbs) and is a lovely naturally weathering bench made from Shorea wood, a handsome and durable piece of all-weather furniture.
The bench is constructed using mortise and tenon joinery techniques, which gives it both unusual strength and durability for extended use ove the four seasons of weather-pounding we get here in New England, although I will store it each year. It also features solid wood dowel construction, and will weather over time to a rich graying patina. It has both a high back and a fairly deep seat, with very sturdy and large armrests that will comfortably fit two or three (unless I am hogging up half the space!) adults or a couple of grandkids alongside me. I love reading the new York Times book review out there, when I am not being gently pestered by the dogs, my granddaughter, or the pesky black flies that are the bane of mankind and that we seem to have buzzing around here early in the summer. All that said, this is a neat English Garden style bench that is both rugged and sturdy as well as being a handsome piece of outdoor furniture offered at an attractive price. Enjoy!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.Classic and Elegant
By caitlin habib
I didn't have one of these, but have a little park close to my house in Los Angeles has a bunch of the 4' benches. I sit on them every weekend to read the newspaper and relax, and finally found out they come from Oxford Designs. I dropped a hint to Santa, and I just got this one today (Christmas) for my new garden. We just put it together. Well really, I mostly did it myself, with no help from the family men anxious to get their hands on the challenge (I am usually not so good with these things, but I didn't have a single problem!). It's absolutely great, and I can even afford to get another one to match!
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