| Our homes are furnished with an assortment of | | | | it at the foot of the bed, and kicking off bedroom |
| comfortable and stylish furniture, but I found that so | | | | slippers in the same place, day after day, year after |
| many memories I have are associated with that | | | | year. |
| classic piece of collective seating - benches. Whether | | | | Feeling tremendous satisfaction of installing a pair |
| they are quality indoor benches, classic park benches, | | | | of indoor benches inside the back door, and hoping |
| or any of the variety of sports benches, you | | | | that now you have a place for everything and |
| probably have a few similar memories of your own. | | | | everything in its place. |
| Here's some of mine: | | | | Grabbing a fuzzy throw blanket from the |
| Buying a vacation house in Canada, and finding | | | | benches that double as ottomans in the family room, |
| benches from a church in our mud room. | | | | and settling in for a night of popcorn and movies. |
| Passing by collection of benches outside the | | | | Finding an antique maple bench in a used furniture |
| principal's office, holding a collection of students | | | | store, and using it to fill that empty space in the |
| defiant, repentant, and dazed about their indiscretions. | | | | foyer in a first home, and still using that little bench |
| Watching tiny indoor benches, holding | | | | twenty years later as a luggage rack in my guest |
| preschoolers alone and in clusters, waiting in endless | | | | room. |
| time outs. | | | | Turning my picnic table and benches into a |
| Watching benches within the dugout, being | | | | temporary kitchen table and having my first dinner of |
| emptied by a row on the field or in celebration of a | | | | take-out Chinese in your new house. |
| game-winning hit. | | | | Brining home some benches with storage |
| Sitting in a steep assembly of benches - | | | | baskets into my playroom, and being thrilled when |
| bleachers - that house the collective cheers and | | | | clean-up time becomes quick and easy. |
| groans of high school basketball fans. | | | | Adding a hinge-top storage bench in our kitchen, |
| Seeing the entire population of people I knew | | | | and finally having a great place to toss all the |
| filing in to the indoor benches of the church I grew | | | | take-out menus. |
| up in, on the day I got married. | | | | Buying a few yards of gorgeous upholstery |
| Lifting the cover of the bench inside the back | | | | fabric, and learning to recover a hand-me-down |
| door on the evening of the first snow, and pulling out | | | | bench into an original treasure that the rest of the |
| the mittens that were tucked away since late last | | | | family envies. |
| winter. | | | | Getting an bench storage chest as a birthday |
| Watching four teenage girls squeeze onto the | | | | gift, and filling it with things I needed for the first |
| bench at the rear of the kitchen table on a Friday | | | | home of my own. |
| evening, pulling open pizza boxes and giggling about | | | | Sitting on a bench on the beach boardwalk, |
| the school week that was finally over. | | | | meeting an old friend for an afternoon walk. |
| Selecting the dining table with matching benches, | | | | Bringing home bright plastic toy boxes that |
| in anticipation of the crowded Thanksgiving dinner, | | | | double as a kiddie indoor benches, and watching my |
| where there's always room for another visitor. | | | | little ones being excited about putting away toys. |
| Finding the perfect upholstered bench and placing | | | | |