Leigh Country Metal Outdoor Bench, Welcome Design, Decorative Patio Seating for Porch/Deck

Bought two benches for my front porch and could not be happier with the purchase! These were packaged carefully and arrived in perfect condition. There are only 4 pieces to be put together. Two people doing it is ideal, so one can hold while the other inserts the screws. Comes with the tools you will need, but pliers will help. There is not one mark or defect. The pieces line up perfectly. Some of the reviewers who said otherwise failed to see the big R and L on the 2 side pieces. R for right, L for Left. It went together fast and easy! They are well made and beautiful. Any imperfections you may see in my photos are shadows. There are no imperfections. It is not only beautiful, they are comfortable. I plan on putting on an anti rust liquid on the bolts since other reviewers say they rust. I can’t believe this bench is so reasonably priced. My sister bought one last year and it is outside under a tree and looks just like new! This is one purchase that will not disappoint!

It is a great buy. Very sturdy and beautiful by my pond

Love the bench. Just what we wanted!

Great quality and easy to put together.

My first reason for choosing this product was because I wanted an inexpensive yet durable bench for an undeveloped wooded property on Lake Michigan where there is no structure of any kind for shelter. That means this will be outdoors ALL the time. I thought this plastic/composite material along with treated lumber would be just the right thing for longevity in the woods. Well, upon completion I'd say it seems this was the right choice. It seems very sturdy but it was not as inexpensive or as easy as I thought. I'm not a builder so I don't know any of the tricks of the trade, therefore, my projects often come out as something less than professional looking. However, I think this project came out just fine. As for expense...have you seen the price of lumber these days!!!??? (ref. May 5, 2021) Holy Toledo! I paid $48 for the bench brackets and $91 for wood. Plus about $14 for better screws. So, not as cheap as I'd hoped but still not bad for the what I ended up with. It's a nice, sturdy, comfortable, heavy, weatherproof bench and that's exactly what I wanted. But let me share a couple of points that might be helpful to others. As other reviewers have said, it isn't super easy to build all by yourself. Especially the "seat boards" for which you need to turn the bench over to access the screw slots. Soooo, since I was working alone, I heeded the advice to have a couple of large clamps at the ready and they were a life saver! I clamped the boards to the frame, measured, made adjustments as necessary, drilled pilot holes and screwed them on. Without clamps or a helper, I don't think I could have done it...at least not without it looking like a Jr, High shop project. Another thing that I think helps is to cut your boards an inch too long (or, if you bought 6' 2X4s, bring the brackets inward a total of one inch). That gives you a half an inch of overhang on each end. The reason for this is that many of the screw slots are on the outermost edges of the brackets which means that the screws go in very close to the ends of the lumber if you don't give it the extra space. The problem with that is splitting. Might even be an issue with longevity if too much movement on the bench causes stresses on the screws, thereby splitting the wood that way too. So leave a little extra room and DO drill pilot holes. Some genius builder also suggested using 8ft 2X4s in the bottom slots of the brackets, thereby leaving an extension sticking out on each side upon which to place boards, creating "end tables". I did this but made one modification: The slots for the front of the braces are about 3/4" lower than the ones for the rear of the braces. If you put boards across for a table, it will end up being slanted forward and anything that CAN roll WILL. Since I used 1X4s for my "table tops" (2X4s seemed too heavy and chunky to me) I simply "ripped" a short piece down the middle to and cut it to the length of the extensions to make a nice shim. That made the table level. (I used exterior deck screws for the table tops and the shim pieces.)

Beautiful, sturdy bench. Just what I needed. Thinking of ordering another.

I've waited a couple of months to do this review. After receiving and assembling the bench I read under the care instructions that if the bench was kept outdoors (of course it is!) that it was necessary to dry the bench after if got wet in a rainfall. That didn't make much sense to me since the bench is advertised as a "garden" bench and 99.9% of gardens are located outdoors where the bench is going to be exposed to rain on a regular basis. At any rate, after numerous heavy duty rainstorms and my not drying the bench, the bench is fine, no rain damage whatsoever. I purposely placed the bench in an unprotected area so it's been exposed to heavy rains and 100° plus temperatures. Even with that abuse there's been no problem. Great value and I highly recommend it as a low cost garden bench.

Looks great.