If style, quality and comfort are the top three characteristics
you search for when selecting the outdoor furniture for your
home, then, comfortable, decorative outdoor benches are the
furniture for you.

Quality benches make fantastic accents to any space. Custom
made benches are available for both inside and outside your
home. You can find different styles, sizes, colors and many
other varieties to choose from to satisfy your needs and
personal style.

Outdoor benches are phenomenal pieces on any front porch. Since
front porches are meant for relaxing and enjoying the weather on
those beautiful spring and summer evenings, most people use
these outdoor benches for relaxing. Due to the contouring of
the seats, they are extremely comfortable to sit in.

A terrific addition to any indoor or outdoor bench is the
custom bench cushion. Not only do they add that extra splash of
color to your home or garden, but they also give your bench a
soft cushy feel. You can either order these cushions on line,
or you can take some initiative and make them yourself. If you
enjoy sewing or creating your own furnishings, then making them
yourself may be for you.

In order to custom make your own bench cushions, you need four
yards of upholstery material of 60 inch width, 3 yards of
matching ribbon of 1 inch width, approximately 10 yards of
standard quilt batting, some heavy-duty thread and a pound of
polyester fiberfill. The first thing you should do is find the
appropriate size of your material by referring to the cutting
pattern. Trim out the front and back pieces and also a sleeve
piece of 13/1.5” X48”. After that, pin all the pieces together
and stitch them. For a sleeve, you need to form an inch wide,
double turned hem by the side of the longer edge.

To make it easy, you can lay the cushion half (bottom) with
right side up on a plain surface and cover it with the face up
sleeve. Thereafter, put the remaining cushion half on its top
with face down. It is necessary that the seam that is opposite
to the sleeve piece must not be sewn. It is done to leave space
for accessing the quilt batting. After, it is turned right side
out; whole cushion is stacked inside it. Place the padding
evenly and whipstitch your glider rocker cushion. Now, two
1.5-yard pieces are formed out of 1” ribbon. These two pieces
must be folded in half. Attach them to the edge of your cushion
at the fold. After the pads are created, tie all the four
strands to the pipe at the bottom of the seat. Thus, your
custom bench cushions are ready


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