Bench Made From Concrete Blocks

Construct the seat using eight 2 x 4s cut to the distance measured in step 7.

Bench made from concrete blocks.

Place three blocks next to each other. Add some extra style to your porch patio living room dinning room bedroom or garden with your favorite from these diy bench ideas. Concrete blocks come in various earthy colors beige bluish gray pinkish brown reddish brown and gray. They look natural and create fabulous neutral color combinations with natural stone metal and wood in your yard.

Cut additional 2 x 4s into 14 blocks each 4 inches long. Arrange cinder blocks in a way that it forms a bench. Secure the spacers to the longer boards with 2 1 2 inch decking screws. The bench consists of two blocks of concrete made of quikrete 5000 and three 8 foot long 4x6s that i got from the home depot.

I did this project in southern california so frost heave isn t a problem which is why i was able to place the bench without digging deeper. Two posts will form the back support and four posts will make the seat of the bench. Make different shapes out of them to make your garden look artistic. Cinder blocks are cheap hard and durable ideal for making concrete garden benches and tables that allow variations in the design.

Steps set up near the site of the future bench to avoid having to carry everything at the end of construction. Insert one end of a post through a hole in a cinder block and then into the opposite hole. These beginner friendly diy bench ideas will inspire you to build beautiful benches out of 2x4s concrete blocks or even re purposed old headboards chairs and dressers from yard sales. Diy wood and concrete block bench materials 12 16 inch x 12 inch x 12 inch concrete blocks at approxiately 1 61 each 2 1 4 in.

Discover more creative ways as you build one thing after another with cinder blocks. Oak boards at about 5 64 each. Move the two cinder block structures approximately 5 feet apart. Stack them up and keep your things on your newly made shelves.

Feed the planks of wood through each of the top holes of the cinder block as pictured below. Repeat the operation with the other blocks. Four 4x4s would have worked just as well. The third is turned in the opposite direction the opening.

See below but since i had the extra concrete blocks i figured it made sense to use all of them and make the bench extra sturdy. How to make a cinder block bench start by building your bench posts or legs. Allow the painted blocks to dry overnight before assembling the bench.