Under Cover: Here’s How To Protect Your Patio Furniture & More During The Off-Season

October 18, 2016

There are certain things you don’t foresee ever being relevant to your life, like hacksaws, understanding nuclear fusion, or anything related to the term “nuclear” for that matter, baby booger-removers, those sorts of things. For me, that list includes outdoor furniture covers.

Never could I have predicted that covers for patio furniture, grills, and more would ever play a role, however small, in my life.

But there it is: I’m constantly helping clients to organize garages, helping them to accomplish seasonal change-over tasks, re-negotiating yard space and storage space. If you follow that course, eventually you land squarely at the desire to protect outdoor items from the harsher elements of fall and winter.

I’ve co-purchased a lot of them is what I’m trying to say.

Most people, after all, do not have the indoor space to house a whole set out of outdoor furniture during the off-season, nor perhaps even room for a grill, and some, not even a bike or two!

What’s a responsible homeowner to do? Ensure the contents of your outdoor world have a chance at not rotting away to dust after being pelted with snow, rain and ice for months on end is what.

(Everything up until this point might be substituted for the phrase: “remember to cover your outdoor shit; winter’s coming,” but brevity is a skill I turn on and off asI please.) (Sorry.)

Great, here’s some covers then!

These are 9 of the best outdoor furniture (and more!) covers. Now to order before winter arrives...

 

1. Square Patio Table & Chair Set Cover

2. Ultimate Patio Sofa Cover

3. Loveseat Cover with Inflatable Airbag to Prevent Pooling

4. Stackable Chair Cover

5. Adirondack Chair Cover

6. Wood and Resin Deck Box

7. Log Rack Cover

8. Grill Rip-Stop Cover

9. The YardStash III: Space Saving Outdoor Bike Storage, Garden Storage and Pool Storage

 

(Obviously, you’ll likely want to choose a matching set to accomodate all your outdoor furniture, but I just figured I’d start by linking up some of the ones clients have had success with in the past.)

1 Comment

  1. Leanne on October 18, 2016 at 7:33 am

    Timely advice for those of us in Northern California who are finally seeing measurable amounts of rain! I’ve been catching up on your past posts and particularly liked the “fire bucket” one, BTW. Re: furniture protection, though, you might eventually move on to the selection of said furniture in the first place. I moved from California to the Bahamas in October 1988. I purchased two chairs with some sort of vinyl webbing to take with me. They lived in the salty air of the Bahamas for over 10 years, never covered. They then moved with me to Chico (no salt, but a lot of agricultural dust). Both locations — lots of heat and sun. They would look just like new if I were to wipe off the grime (I’m letting the rain do the first round of cleaning). When I bought them I thought they were a skosh expensive. Now I realize what a great bargain they were! 28 years of faithful service. (And I don’t remember the brand, sorry.)

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  1. Leanne on October 18, 2016 at 7:33 am

    Timely advice for those of us in Northern California who are finally seeing measurable amounts of rain! I’ve been catching up on your past posts and particularly liked the “fire bucket” one, BTW. Re: furniture protection, though, you might eventually move on to the selection of said furniture in the first place. I moved from California to the Bahamas in October 1988. I purchased two chairs with some sort of vinyl webbing to take with me. They lived in the salty air of the Bahamas for over 10 years, never covered. They then moved with me to Chico (no salt, but a lot of agricultural dust). Both locations — lots of heat and sun. They would look just like new if I were to wipe off the grime (I’m letting the rain do the first round of cleaning). When I bought them I thought they were a skosh expensive. Now I realize what a great bargain they were! 28 years of faithful service. (And I don’t remember the brand, sorry.)

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