You’ve finally achieved your dream of creating a cozy, secluded corner of the woods just for you and your family. Owning and maintaining a rustic cabin is well worth the investment, providing an idyllic place to connect with nature and unwind with loved ones to create lasting memories. Many mountainside or lake-adjacent cabins are, for practical purposes, smaller in square-footage than a beach house or … Continue reading Entertaining at Your New Cabin
When you move into a home with a small backyard or patio the limited space demands creativity and clarity. When you must stick to one use for a space, the task of designing your outdoor area is straightforward.But if you’ve relocated to a home with a sprawling back deck or a sizeable outdoor room the freedom to choose more than one furniture set can be … Continue reading Creating a Multi-Use Outdoor Room
Any bit of earth can be transformed into an elegant outdoor retreat, no matter the size of your potential garden. You may assume that turning a sprawling backyard into a respectable garden is difficult, but wrapping your head around the possibilities of a tiny space and maximizing utility can prove even more challenging. Below are our favorite ideas for choosing outdoor living furniture and creating … Continue reading Garden Ideas for 3 Sizes of Outdoor Spaces
The days are getting warmer and the nights are getting longer. Summer is here, and with that comes all the patriotic summer holidays and decor. The colors red, white, and blue seem straight-forward enough to decorate with any time of year, but they can easily be overdone. Below are some tips on how you can add touches of one of our favorite looks — rustic Americana … Continue reading Subtle Ways to Decorate Your Outdoor Space with Red, White, and Blue
You’ve cleared out the creaky plastic furniture, planted fresh new landscaping, and transform your patio into a breathtaking beauty of stone and granite. It’s time for a full-on backyard remodeling project, but a blank slate can prove one of the most intimidating challenges in home design. Once you map out your outdoor space you may find several zones where you can choose to put outdoor … Continue reading Potential Uses for Your Outdoor Space
The cooler evenings of fall create the perfect setting for an outdoor candlelit dinner, either with your special someone or with the entire family. Even if you’ve decked out your patio with a full POLYWOOD dining set the low-maintenance lumber and weather-resistant Sunbrella® cushions need a little more decoration to impress your guests. Creating fall outdoor dining tablescapes is simpler than you may imagine, especially … Continue reading Fall Outdoor Dining Tablescapes
Most people associate POLYWOOD® with colorful, all-weather Adirondack chairs. You’ve probably seen our dining sets, chaise lounges, or benches. But did you know we also have a furniture line just for kids? Or that we sell a pet feeder? With thousands of SKUs available on our website, it’s not hard to miss out on everything we provide. As a company, we offer a wide array … Continue reading 5 Products You Didn’t Know We Offered
We here at POLYWOOD are a competitive bunch. From golf leagues to ugly Christmas sweater contests, we enjoy pitting ourselves against our fellow co-workers in friendly competitions. However, the most prestigious and fiercely fought competition here at our Syracuse, Indiana headquarters is the Annual Bocce Ball Tournament. Spanning July and August, this round-robin style tourney has become the most well-known and widely talked about competition … Continue reading How to Bocce
I’m a big dog lover, as I mention in my bio, and I hate when I have to leave my dog at home alone. At the beginning of the summer, I visited all of the local dog-friendly areas here in Syracuse and continued my search for more throughout the surrounding areas. Turns out, if you do a little research and make a few phone calls, … Continue reading Dog Dates of Summer
We’re very fortunate to have such a beautiful community park here in Syracuse and it’s the perfect lakeside setting for our annual company picnic. This year, we had 428 employees/family members sign-up to enjoy slushies, cotton candy, corn hole, a bounce house, face painting, live music, and lots of food! Out of all of the fun and food, I think it’s safe to say that … Continue reading 2015 Company Picnic
