A rustic garden bench with a heart carved into the back — hand-built from reclaimed oak fence posts and planks gathered from the Welsh valleys, where the wood has already earned its character.
The design uses the reclaimed material honestly: fence posts become legs and stretchers, oak planks form the seat and the back. Nothing is disguised or prettified. The weathering, the grain, the occasional peg hole are part of what makes it this bench and not any other. The carved heart at the centre of the backboard is the one deliberate flourish — because everything else here has already been through enough.
It belongs against a stone wall, beside a vegetable patch, or at the edge of a field — somewhere it can be used. Prices include VAT.
Key Features
- 100% reclaimed oak — fence posts and planks from the Welsh valleys
- Hand-carved heart motif in the backboard
- Solid hand-built joinery
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Choose your finish — supplied unvarnished as standard, or add three coats of Epifanes yacht varnish for lasting colour and sheen (+£50)
- Two-seater, 140cm wide
- Handmade in Mid Wales
Dimensions
- W140 × D50 × H110cm
- Seat height: 45cm
Your Version
Available with a personalised inscription carved into the seat back or heart. Bespoke dimensions on request. Typical lead time is 4–5 weeks. Get in touch to discuss.
Finish
This piece is supplied unvarnished as standard. Left natural, solid oak slowly weathers to a soft, silvery-grey — completely normal for outdoor timber, a graceful way for a piece to age, and with no maintenance needed. If you’d prefer to bring out the grain and warm, honeyed tones, choose the varnished option (+£50) and we’ll hand-apply three coats of Epifanes, a premium marine yacht varnish.
More about the two finishes
Outdoor furniture takes a real beating from sun and weather. Left natural, an unvarnished piece simply silvers over time and asks nothing of you. A varnished piece keeps its rich sheen for a couple of years; after that the varnish may begin to flake or patch, at which point you can simply re-coat it, or let it weather back to that natural silvery-grey. Either way, your oak is fine.
