As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details A 2 seater outdoor sofa is the piece that fits a balcony, a narrow porch or the corner of a deck where a three-seat couch will not. Searching Amazon for the phrase mostly returns furniture covers and camping loveseats, so we filtered for real patio…
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details Outdoor shoe storage has to do two jobs at once: hold a few pairs of shoes or boots, and cope with rain, mud and sun without a closet roof overhead. Amazon sells everything from closed resin cabinets that double as a bench, to an open…
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details A raised bed with storage underneath lifts the soil to waist height and uses the space below for pots, bags of soil and hand tools. Amazon sells these as elevated planters with a built-in shelf, rack or clear space under the bed. The five below…
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details An outdoor kitchen cart gives you a flat prep surface and a place to keep tools near the grill, without building a permanent counter. Most carts on Amazon for this job are really grill carts or prep tables, so the useful questions are how big…
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details Heating a patio is mostly a placement and safety question. The sources we opened cover gas-fired patio heaters, so this guide is built around them. It sets out what a county fire marshal’s guidance requires, what a federal recall notice says about one heater model,…
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details Outdoor nesting tables are two or three tables of different sizes that stack into the footprint of the biggest one, so a small patio or balcony keeps its floor space until guests arrive. The catch is that many listings with “outdoor” in the title say…
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details A garden potting stand is a waist-high work surface for repotting, seed starting and mixing soil, usually with a shelf underneath for bags and pots. On Amazon the phrase pulls up plant shelves as well as potting benches, so this guide sticks to the benches,…
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details A hanging basket stand lets you hang baskets where there is no beam, eave or fence post to hang from. For outdoor use, the choice is between a tall pole with several arms, a low rack with hooks at different heights, and a plant shelf…
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details An extendable outdoor table solves one problem: you want a patio table that is not too big on a normal Tuesday, yet still seats the whole family on a holiday. Amazon lists a lot of “foldable” and “expandable” tables that are really camping tables or…
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Details An outdoor chair with an ottoman gives you a proper put-your-feet-up seat for the patio, porch or fire pit without buying a separate lounge set. Amazon sells three kinds: a chair plus a separate ottoman, a glider with a matching footstool, and Adirondack chairs with…