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  • Outdoor Furniture fit for Royalty
    If a persons home is her or his castle, it may be because of the countless modern conveniences that allow us to live like royalty. However, with all of the state-of-the-art electronics, appliances, and furniture crowding us inside, people are enclosing their porches and patios, or building gazebos to use as outside rooms, and outdoor furniture is becoming as important as the indoor furnishings. C
  • Cedar Chests Keep Traditions Alive
    Throughout the ages, every society has placed great emphasis and value on boxes that were made from stone, wood, marble, and many other materials, and bedecked with ornaments of every description. Many of these boxes, from tiny prayer boxes, to large cedar chests, have been and still are the focal points of holiday, family, religious, and secular traditions. Today, cedar chests remain among th
  • Outdoor Furniture is Easy on the Eyes - and the Thighs
    Forget the uncomfortable plastic chairs and rusty metal outdoor furniture that was found on every porch and patio when you were a kid. From conventional to contemporary, the new generation of outdoor furniture includes dining sets, patio chairs, garden benches, porch swings, gliders, ottomans, coffee tables, end tables, picnic tables, and more. Made from wood, aluminum, wrought iron, and other sy
  • Picnic Tables Available - No Reservations Required
    From a potluck gathering, to a formal social affair, the picnic has had different meanings in different cultures. Likewise, the picnic table has undergone many changes in its design, from a simple rectangular pine table, to the countless styles, shapes, and colors, available in various materials, including beautiful, decay-resistant woods, as well as todays everlasting synthetics.
  • Teak Makes Patio Furniture Chic
    For centuries, teakwood has been highly-prized for its radiant beauty, as well as its incredible strength and natural decay-resistance. Since ancient times, its countless uses have included making roofing and siding, walls, floors, doors, mantels, cabinets, closets, picture frames, sculptures, and ships decks, with many examples of these items still in existence hundreds of years later. Today, te
  • Gazebos Are Building Excitement
    After youve ordered the gazebo that youve always wanted, you may be concerned about how long it will take to construct it, and how much help you will need. Gazebos from GazeboCreations.com are shipped partially assembled, in easy-to-build kits. In most cases, using only a screw gun, a level, and a hammer, you should be able to assemble most gazebos in an afternoon, or, with some of the larger, d
  • The Front Porch Swings Through History
    Existing in various forms, since prehistoric times, when over-hanging rocks were used for shelter, the front porch has reached its present form through the blending of the architectural styles of the many countries that formed our nation. The favorite seat on the porch has always been the porch swing, which continues to increase in popularity, especially with the many new available styles and mate
  • Drab Backyard? Get Over it with a Garden Bridge
    With the current resurgence of interest in water gardens, the garden bridge is riding a new wave of popularity. Our beautiful garden bridges, available in many sizes, styles, and materials are perfect for any pond, stream, or creek.
  • For Personal Space, Cabana is Top Banana
    With everything going high-speed these days, people who are desperately seeking "personal space" are discovering that cabanas make ideal getaways. A cabana can be anything, or it can be everything, including an extra room, a home office, a guest house, a cottage, or a home spa, complete with a hot tub.
  • An Appetizing Menu of Picnic Tables
    Changing lifestyles and increased demands have prompted an evolution in picnic tables. Beyond the traditional rectangular, the choices today era virtually limitless. Allpicnictables.com has an awesome assortment fo oval, round, square, hexagonal, octagonal, and extra-wide picnic tables, made from cedar, pine, oak, teak, cherry, aluminum , thermo-plastic coated steel, polywood, and vinyl, in an exp
  • Teak Patio Furniture Has Enduring Charm
    For centuries, teakwood has been highly prized for its radiant beauty, as well as its incredible strength and natural decay-resistance. It is produced by the Tectona Grandis tree, which is indigenous to Asia, and was once considered to be a royal tree in Thailand. Long used for making roofing and siding, walls, floors, doors, mantels, cabinets, closets, picture frames, and sculptures, teak is now
  • Covered Garden Bridges Cross Over to 21st Century
    When Philadelphia Judge Richard Peters proposed the very first covered bridge in 1804, he had no way of knowing what he was starting. Besides causing a wellspring of folklore about the reasons for covering the bridge, it also led to multiple uses for covered bridges, beyond travel across streams. Today, covered bridges spark nostalgia for a simpler, more innocent time. At CedarStore.com, you can c
  • Patio Furniture Makes Decorating a Breeze
    With the fascination for outdoor living that has become so prevalent in recent years, millions of people have created outdoor living rooms, by augmenting their porches, patios, and decks, or using a few trellises to form a cozy hideaway in a corner of the backyard. With the huge assortment of patio furniture thats available today, theyre also having a lot of fun decorating these outdoor retreats
  • Water Garden Bridges the Centuries
    Throughout the centuries, every culture has held a fascination for water, bringing it into their backyards for use in water gardens, fountains, spouts, pools, streams, and waterfalls. Integral to these water gardens, the garden bridge essentially ties the whole scene together, giving it a sense of continuity, wholeness, and intimacy. CedarStore.com has treated pine, red cedar, and white cedar foot
  • Arbors Provide Portals to Paradise
    Since the Garden of Eden, gardens have been associated with earthly paradises. Important to every culture and country since ancient times, gardens have always featured arbors. Today, more popular than ever, arbors provide an effortless, convenient way to turn your own garden into heaven on earth. CedarStore.com offers a wide variety of sizes and styles of spectacular, durable arbors, in wood and w
  • Garden Furniture Keeps Blossoming
    A flower garden can be anything from a small patch of daisies, to a wide array of flowers, trees, plants, bushes, and ivies. No matter how divergent their ideas on what constitutes the perfect garden, however, people everywhere agree that it must contain garden furniture. CedarStore.com has one of the largest collections of outdoor furniture available anywhere, including garden benches, chairs, ta
  • Storage Building Sheds its Old Image
    With things changing so quickly these days, old attitudes and stereotypes are crumbling, opening up new possibilities for everyone and everything. Even the humble shed has taken on a new image. No longer is it the crumbling shack with the leaky roof, and rusty latch and padlock, thats used for storing lawn mowers and garden tools. Todays sheds are available with many creature comforts, and are
  • Find the F-U-N in Patio Furniture
    Though interior decorating has always provided endless choices in colors, styles, and materials, the selections of outdoor furniture have traditionally been limited. However, things have changed over the past several years, as people are increasingly using their porches, patios, decks, and gazebos for recreation and entertaining. CedarStore.com offers a fantastic assortment of chairs, tables, gard
  • Outdoor Furniture for the Ages
    Western Red Cedars desirable characteristics, which include extreme durability, have made it a favorite among architects and woodworkers since ancient times, as evidenced by its prominence in many structures from ages past. Today, its one of the most popular materials for building long-lasting outdoor furniture. When it comes to shopping for furniture for your porch, patio, yard, deck, or gazebo
  • Play Sets the Tone for Life
    If youve been looking for a way to get your kids off the couch, out of their bedrooms, and away from their video games, cell phones, and computers, CedarStore.com has the perfect solution, with a spectacular line of play sets that are designed for non-stop fun. With features that include clubhouses, scoop slides, spiral slides, rope ladders, sling and tire swings, trapeze bars, monkey bars, rock
  • Today's Picnic Tables are the Bee's Knees
    If it has been awhile since you went shopping for a picnic table, you may be pleasantly surprised to find that there are many choices available that did not exist a decade ago. In addition to the familiar rectangular tables, AllPicnicTables.com has hexagonal, octagonal, round, oval, and square tables, with benches attached or detached, and extra-wide tables available with chairs or benches. Beside
  • The Enduring, Alluring Gazebo
    Why is a gazebo called a gazebo? We have the answer and a little history on its origin and uses.
  • Covered Garden Bridges Have Long Lifespans
    For two hundred years, covered bridges have sparked fascination, imagination, and admiration across the nation. Nostalgic symbols of a more innocent time, they have been the subjects of debate over the years. Many theories have been put forth about why they were originally covered, though the purely practical reason was simply to protect them from the elements. Although many people think that the
  • Let a Style Be Your Umbrella
    Although most of us always have an umbrella handy that will keep us dry in the rain, we cant count on it to protect us from the harmful rays of the sun. For that demanding assignment, youll need the services of an umbrella from AllPicnicTables.com, where youll find a fabulous assortment of Patio, Market, Beach, Traditional and Commercial Umbrellas. Available in dozens of colors, and virtually l
  • How to Become Gazebo-Savvy
    One of the most gorgeous garden structures you can have, a gazebo also has countless uses. This combination of beauty and versatility has made gazebos more popular than ever, but some people hesitate to get one, because they feel that the process is too complicated, or that they dont know enough about gazebos to make the right choices. GazeboCreations.com is a fun, informative site that is run by
  • Make Room for Garden Structures
    Although the prospect of landscaping a large yard may seem a bit daunting, it will be a lot easier if you approach it in the same way that you would if you were decorating the inside of your house. Simply divide your yard into individual "rooms," and conquer it in a few, manageable projects. The best way to start is by adding some garden structures. CedarStore.com has over 200 designs of arbors, t
  • Pavilion Provides “L” of a Good Time
    Pavilions can be found in parks, as well as rest and recreation areas, on picnic, hospital, and camping grounds, college campuses, and even in backyards. We usually think of them as spacious outdoor rooms, and associate them with special occasions, such as garden parties, reunions, awards ceremonies, weddings, receptions, concerts, and sporting events. Overwhelmingly, we also identify them with fu
  • Picnic Tables for All Seasons
    The high demand for picnic tables that fit different lifestyles, needs, and budgets, has brought about a new generation of picnic tables in virtually limitless choices, made from cedar, pine, oak, teak, cherry, aluminum, thermo-plastic coated steel, polywood, and vinyl, in an expanding range of sizes and shapes. At AllPicnicTables.com, youll find an amazing assortment of rectangular, oval, round,
  • Planters Can Replace a Green Thumb
    You may already be using planters when you want to add color, life, and a little pizzazz to dull or empty-looking areas on your porch, patio, deck, or gazebo. So, why shouldnt you do the same for the sparse, hungry-looking spots in your garden? Theres no better way to give it an instant lift, or to make it immediately look fuller, than with planters. In fact, theyll perk you up just as fast, to
  • The Best Picnic Tables on - and for - Earth
    Products that are not biodegradable will be sitting in landfills for generations to come, contaminating the land long after were dead. We all benefit from recycling every day, as our garbage is reincarnated as everything from cereal boxes, to window panes, to picnic tables. AllPicnicTables.com features a large selection of residential and commercial-grade tables made from Poly Lumber, a high-dens
  • Reward Yourself with Patio Furniture
    Its often been said that the simplest pleasures in life can bring the richest rewards. This is especially true when it comes to patio furniture. To find the most gorgeous, comfortable, durable, and affordable outdoor and patio furniture, simply go to CedarStore.com, and see their huge variety of cedar, pine, oak, cherry, teak, aluminum, vinyl, and polywood chairs, tables, garden benches, porch sw
  • Choose Your Picnic Table Wisely
    Over the past several years, there has been an all-out evolution in the designs and styles of picnic tables, and the materials from which they are constructed. AllPicnicTables.com has an incredibly diverse collection of picnic tables, in styles from traditional to 21st century, and colors, shapes, materials, and sizes to fit every space, budget, decor, and lifestyle. Besides their classic cedar, p
  • Finding Your Gazebo Style
    Now that youve decided to get a gazebo, how do you pinpoint a style thats right for you? You can take a drive around your neighborhood, or out into the country, and start taking notice of other gazebo designs, or cut out pictures from garden and landscaping magazines that feature gazebos. One of the best ways to get inspiration, however, is to go to GazeboCreations.com, where youll find an incr
  • Just Say “Yes” to Play Sets
    Kids are always asking for things, and you have to decide whether or not theyre good for them. Sometimes, its a close call; but with play sets, its easy, because, besides improving their overall physical conditions, play sets will help kids to develop more agility, better balance, and greater hand/eye coordination. GazeboCreations.com offers 29 styles of safe, durable play sets, constructed fro
  • Porch Furniture Has Pull
    These days, with the increasing number of enclosed porches, patios, and gazebos, instead of having just a season or two to enjoy our porch furniture, we can use it all year long.
  • Check and Protect Your Gazebo Deck
    Gazebos are more popular than ever, as many people are now integrating them with their decks, to extend their living areas. This practice is becoming so widespread, in fact, that it has given rise to the term, gazebo deck.
  • Picnic Tables in Living Color
    Research indicates that our passion for outdoor living has grown significantly over the past several years. At the same time, however, we dont like spending our free time doing yard work. Therefore, many people are using ornamental grasses to create colorful, low-maintenance lawns. Another way to bring color to the landscape is by going to AllPicnicTables.com, and choosing a picnic table in one o
  • Save Outdoor Furniture from Scratch
    To keep your porch chairs and other wooden patio furniture looking its best throughout its lifetime, there are several ways to can hide nicks and scrapes that come with years of use. Sometimes, all it takes is a bit of paste wax, sandpaper, and baby oil. Other remedies include stain and special touch-up pens available at wood-finishing suppliers. Of course, the best way to ensure that you will alw
  • The Grass is Greener Under the Picnic Table
    Although many people have abandoned the ideal of the emerald-green, meticulously manicured lawn, there are still those who enjoy doing yard work. Theyre the ones whose lawns are so gorgeous that the only things that are greener are the neighbors. Luckily, whether or not your lawn is the envy of the neighborhood, when it comes to outdoor furniture, you can outshine everyone. Just go to AllPicnicTa

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