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X Bench (Works with X Outdoor Table)
A backless X-leg bench sized to pair with the matching X outdoor table. All 30° cuts — every leg piece is angled.
- Intermediate
- $$
- 3–5 hrs

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Outdoor

Post Hole Digger

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Outdoor

Classic X-Back Outdoor Sofa

A full-size outdoor sofa with five mitered X panels forming the back, built for cushions rather than bare-wood seating.

Intermediate
$$$
10–15 hrs

Backyard wooden seesaw with padded seats and dowel handles on a cross base

Wood Seesaw (Teeter-Totter)

A backyard seesaw with a bolt pivot, dowel handles, and padded seats — plus three pivot heights, so it grows with the kids instead of aging out.

Easy
$$
3–5 hrs

A wood deck handrail with 4x4 posts and evenly spaced 2x2 balusters

Wood Handrail with Balusters

A build-to-fit deck or porch handrail — 4x4 posts, 2x4 top and bottom rails, evenly spaced 2x2 balusters, and 1x4 trim to hide the pocket holes.

Easy
$$
4–6 hrs

Wood cooler stand with a slatted front, hinged mitered lid, and lower shelf

Wood Cooler Stand with Lid and Shelf

A slatted wood housing that dresses up a plastic cooler, with a mitered hinged lid and a drop-in shelf below.

Intermediate
$$
8–10 hrs

House-shaped cedar bird feeder with reused bottle reservoir

Wood Bird Feeder

A house-shaped cedar bird feeder built around an upcycled juice bottle as the seed reservoir.

Beginner
$
45 min – 1.3 hrs

Backyard pergola with clad posts and a double-layer roof grid

Weatherly Pergola

A freestanding backyard pergola on four set posts, dressed with ripped 1x8/1x10 post cladding, mitered post caps, and decorative-end 2x4 and 2x2 roof slats.

Advanced
$$$$
8–11 hrs

Small two-person picnic table with facing seats built from 2x6 lumber

Two-Person Picnic Table

A face-to-face picnic table for two — one shared seat frame and a cantilevered top on angled legs, sized for a balcony, small patio, or morning coffee for a couple.

Easy
$$
3–5 hrs

Triangular wooden wedding ceremony arch with a lapped peak joint

Triangle Wedding Arch

Two 2x6 legs lapped together at a shallow peak — the whole design is one interlocking joint, cut freehand with a circular saw and cleaned up with a chisel.

Intermediate
$
2–3 hrs

Planter Box with Attached Trellis

A cedar planter box with a lattice-slat trellis rising from the back, built on a 2x6 base with mitered 2x4 top trim.

Intermediate
$$
3–5 hrs

Cedar planter box with built-in wooden tomato cage of vertical slats and horizontal rungs

Tomato Cage Planter

A cedar planter box with a built-in wooden tomato cage rising off its corners — two fence pickets, three furring strips, one afternoon.

Beginner
$
1 hr – 2 hrs

Pair of tall tapered cedar planters flanking a front door

Tall Tapered Wood Planters

Tapered planters up to seven pickets tall, built flat on the ground: nail pickets to angled 1x2s, saw the assembled panel apart, and the offcuts become the other two sides.

Easy
$$
2–4 hrs

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