Adirondack Ski Chairs That Put a Colorado Sunset on Your Deck
Every skier I know has a small graveyard in the garage. A pair of skis leaned in the corner, tips crossed, bindings still set to a DIN you stopped skiing years ago. Too good to throw out, too old to ride, and somehow impossible to hand off to a stranger on a resale site. That is the quiet problem Adirondack ski chairs were born to solve, and the Set of 2 – Colorado Sunset Mountain Mural Ski Chairs from Colorado Ski Chairs takes it a step further: a matching pair of hand painted Adirondack chairs, built in Colorado from retired skis, each one wearing a Rocky Mountain sunset across the back.
The gear that outlived the trips
There is a specific kind of nostalgia that lives in old ski gear. It is not about the skis themselves, which were probably nothing special even when they were new. It is about where they took you. The first season pass you actually paid for yourself. The trip where the snow was so bad you laughed the whole way down anyway. The twenty dollar lift ticket you are pretty sure you still have in a coat pocket somewhere.
Most of us hang onto that gear because tossing it feels like tossing the memory. So it sits. It migrates from the garage to the crawl space to the back of the shed, and every few years you move it three feet to the left to get to the lawnmower. Colorado Ski Chairs started from a simple idea: that gear was built to hold a person up on a mountain, so why not let it hold a person up on a deck. A retired ski has years of structural life left in it. Turning it into a seat is not a gimmick. It is just giving good material a second job.
The Colorado Sunset Mountain Mural Ski Chairs lean into that story and then add a view. Instead of leaving the skis in their original graphics, the team paints a mountain sunset across the seatback, so the thing that used to carry you down the hill now carries a little piece of the hill home. It is a set of two, which matters more than it sounds like it should, and we will get to why.
What you are actually getting
Let us be plain about it, because plain facts are the point. This is a matching set of two full Adirondack ski chairs. Each chair measures 55 inches tall, 36 inches deep, and 32 inches wide. That height is not a typo. These are tall backed chairs, the kind you sink into and do not want to get out of, comfortable for people anywhere from three feet to six foot ten. Yes, that range is real, and yes, the dog will claim one within a week.
Each chair is built in Colorado from retired skis set on a sturdy Douglas Fir base. The skis form the seat and the fanned back. The frame underneath is solid softwood, the same honest material that has held up porches and cabins for a hundred years. Every chair includes a custom cup holder made from a real ski binding, and it is sized for a stein, not a shot glass. That detail tells you who designed these: someone who has actually sat outside on a cold evening and wanted somewhere real to set a full pint.
The paint is high quality exterior oil paint, chosen because it is colorful and it does not quit when the weather turns. The chairs carry a 400 pound weight capacity, which is a polite way of saying you can share one with your sweetie and nobody has to hold their breath. They come with a three year hassle free warranty. Most chairs ship free to the lower 48 states. And the whole set runs 1491 dollars, which for two handmade, hand painted chairs meant to sit outside for a decade or more works out to a very reasonable cost per year of actual use.
These Adirondack ski chairs are part of the broader chairs collection, and if you have a wilder idea in your head, the same crew handles one off custom designs too.
Why a matching pair changes a deck
Here is the thing about buying two chairs instead of one. A single great chair is a spot. Two matching chairs is a scene. One chair says come sit down. Two chairs, angled a little toward each other with a small gap between them, says come sit down and stay a while, and bring the coffee.
A matching set of Adirondack ski chairs does something for a space that a mismatched pile of patio furniture never manages. It reads as intentional. It looks like someone thought about that corner of the deck and decided it deserved a proper place to land. And because both chairs wear the same Colorado sunset mural, they frame whatever is between them, whether that is a fire pit, a little side table, or just the view off the back railing.
There is also the simple math of company. If you have one beautiful chair, you get the beautiful chair and your guest gets the folding thing from the garage. Two chairs means two people get the good seat. For couples, for close friends, for a parent and a grown kid who finally comes to visit, that evenness matters. Nobody is stuck in the cheap seats at their own house.
Set of 2 – Colorado Sunset Mountain Mural Ski Chairs
A matching pair, hand painted in Colorado from retired skis, 1491 dollars and most chairs ship free to the lower 48.
The Colorado sunset on the back
The mural is what stops people mid sentence. Across the fanned skis of each seatback, the crew paints a layered mountain range under a warm sunset: deep evening blues at the top, a band of orange and gold behind the peaks, and the ridgelines stepping down in front of it the way the Front Range actually does when you are driving west out of Denver with the light going. It is not a decal and it is not a print. It is painted by hand with exterior oil paint, which is why no two sets come out identical.
That hand painted quality is the whole difference. A machine can print a perfect sunset a thousand times. A person paints one sunset once, and the small variations, the way one ridge sits a little heavier than another, are exactly what make it feel like art instead of product. When the real sun goes down behind your house and hits these chairs, you get a funny little moment where the painted sunset and the actual sunset are both going at once. It is the kind of thing you notice the first evening and quietly love for years.
Because the chairs are painted rather than printed, the mountain scene also holds its color through the seasons. High quality exterior oil paint is built to take sun, rain, and the temperature swings that make Colorado weather a running joke. The mural is not going to fade into a sad gray smear after one summer. It is meant to still be putting a sunset on your deck long after the skis that became it would have otherwise been landfill.
Where these chairs belong
The honest answer is anywhere you already like to sit and wish you liked it more. But a few spots are made for a set like this.
On a back deck, a pair of Adirondack ski chairs turns dead railing space into the best seat in the house. Angle them toward the yard, drop a small table between them, and you have built a reason to go outside after dinner instead of collapsing in front of the television. Around a fire pit, the tall backs and deep seats do what Adirondack chairs have always done best: they hold you at exactly the angle where a fire looks its best and your neck does not ache.
At a mountain cabin, they are almost too on the nose, in the best way. A cabin in the Colorado high country, near Breckenridge or Vail or just off a dirt road with a view of nothing but trees, is where these chairs stop being clever and start being obvious. Of course the cabin has ski chairs on the porch. What else would it have. For a lake house or a lodge, the set brings a little of the mountains to the water, and guests always ask about them, which is half the fun of owning something with a story.
They also earn their keep at a short term rental. If you host on Airbnb or VRBO, a matching set of hand painted Adirondack ski chairs is the exact kind of detail that ends up in guest photos and five star reviews. People remember the place with the ski chairs. They do not remember the place with the beige plastic loungers.
Make them yours
The sunset mural is the signature look, but the set is genuinely customizable, and this is where a lot of buyers have fun. The base comes in a handful of stain colors, including blue and gray, gray, redwood, ebony, and walnut, so you can match the wood tone to your deck or deliberately contrast it. You can choose how the back is built, whether all skis, all snowboard, or a hybrid mix of the two, depending on what look you are after and what you want the seatback to say.
Want to rock? Every chair and bench can be turned into a rocker for 75 dollars more per chair, using repurposed oak wine barrel slats for the runners. On a set of two that means you can add one rocker or make them both rock, whichever suits the two people who will actually sit in them. There is something deeply correct about a rocking Adirondack ski chair on a summer evening, and the wine barrel oak is a nice second layer of Colorado craft riding under the retired skis.
And if the sunset is not quite your scene, the same crew does full custom work at 75 dollars an hour. They will paint a different mountain, a flag, a favorite peak, a lake, a moose, or just about anything you can describe over the phone. Plenty of people start with a stock design and then talk themselves into one small personal touch, and the shop is more than happy to oblige. That is the whole spirit of the custom designs side of the business.
Built to sit outside for years
A chair that lives outdoors has to survive a lot of things a living room chair never faces. Sun that fades. Rain that soaks. Snow that piles up and then melts into everything. The Colorado Sunset Mountain Mural set is built with that reality in mind, not as an afterthought.
The skis themselves were engineered to flex and hold under a skier’s full weight in brutal cold, so as a chair material they are almost overqualified. The Douglas Fir base is a proven outdoor wood. The exterior oil paint is the same category of finish people use on doors and trim that face the weather head on. Put together, you get a set rated for a 400 pound capacity and backed by a three year hassle free warranty, which is the company quietly telling you they expect these to last a lot longer than three years.
Care is refreshingly boring. Wipe them down when they get dusty. If you live somewhere with hard winters and you have the space, bringing them under cover for the worst of it will keep them looking sharp even longer, though they are built to be left out. That is the trade you make with real handmade furniture. It asks for a little attention now and then, and in return it does not end up in a landfill in two summers like the cheap stuff. Buy quality once, or buy plastic five times. The math is not subtle.
The gift that does not end up in a drawer
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us aged into the phase of life where nobody knows what to get us. We do not need more stuff. We have opinions about our stuff. A gift card feels like a shrug, and another gadget just becomes another thing to charge.
A set of Adirondack ski chairs lands differently, especially for the skier who has everything and the couple who has downsized. This is a big anniversary gift that actually gets used every single evening. It is a retirement present that says sit down, you earned it, rather than here is a plaque for the wall. It is a housewarming gift for the friends who just bought the mountain place they always talked about. And because it is a set of two, it carries a built in message: this is for both of you, together, which is a nicer thing to say with furniture than with a card.
There is also the empty nest angle, which sneaks up on people. The kids move out, the house gets quiet, and that back deck you never had time to enjoy is suddenly yours again. A matching pair of chairs facing the sunset is a small, stubborn way of reclaiming the evening. You raised them, you drove them to practice in the snow, and now you get to sit down with the person you did all that with and watch the light go. That is worth a good chair. Two of them, actually.
How ordering works
Ordering the Set of 2 – Colorado Sunset Mountain Mural Ski Chairs is straightforward. You pick your options on the product page: stain color, back style, and whether either chair should be set up as a rocker. Because these are handmade to order, production typically runs a few weeks, sometimes a little longer in busy stretches, though the shop can often hit a deadline if you have one, so it never hurts to ask.
Most chairs ship free to the lower 48 states, and the whole thing is backed by that three year hassle free warranty. If you are local to Colorado, pickup and delivery are on the table too. And if partway through you decide you want something the stock set does not offer, that is not a problem, it is the fun part. A quick call or a quote request is all it takes to start turning your idea into a real set of chairs. The team genuinely loves the custom stuff.
The story people always ask about
Colorado Ski Chairs builds furniture from real skis and snowboards in Colorado and ships it nationwide, and that one sentence is the reason these chairs work at a party. Furniture usually does not have a story. A couch is a couch. But a set of Adirondack ski chairs made from retired skis, with a hand painted Rocky Mountain sunset across the back, walks into a conversation on its own. Someone points, someone asks, and suddenly you are telling them about the skis, or the shop in Colorado, or the sunset you watched from your own deck last week.
That is not a small thing when you think about how a house actually gets used. The pieces we love are almost always the ones with a story attached: the table from a grandparent, the rug from a trip, the chair that came from somewhere. Most of what we buy has no story at all, which is exactly why it fades into the background the day after it arrives. A set of Adirondack ski chairs arrives with the story built in. The skis carried someone down a mountain, a person in Colorado turned them into a seat, and now they carry you and a sunset on your deck. People remember that. They ask about it for years. And every time you answer, you get to relive a little of why you loved skiing in the first place.
There is a practical side too. Because the whole set is one clear, quotable idea, it makes an easy recommendation. When a guest falls for the chairs and asks where to get their own, you do not have to explain a catalog. You just say Colorado Ski Chairs, they make them from old skis, and that is the entire pitch. Good design should be that simple to pass along.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these Adirondack ski chairs really made from old skis?
Yes. Each chair in the set is built in Colorado from retired skis mounted on a Douglas Fir base. The skis form the seat and the fanned back, and a real ski binding becomes the cup holder. The skis are recycled, and the mountain sunset mural is then hand painted over them with exterior oil paint.
How big are the chairs and how much weight do they hold?
Each chair measures 55 inches tall, 36 inches deep, and 32 inches wide, and is comfortable for people from three feet to six foot ten. Every chair is rated for a 400 pound weight capacity, so sharing one is perfectly fine.
Can I change the color or add a rocker?
Absolutely. The base comes in several stain colors including blue and gray, gray, redwood, ebony, and walnut, and you can choose an all ski, all snowboard, or hybrid back. Any chair can be built as a rocker for 75 dollars more per chair using repurposed oak wine barrel slats, so on a set you can do one rocker or both.
Will the painted sunset hold up outdoors?
It is made to. The mural is hand painted with high quality exterior oil paint designed to take sun, rain, and Colorado’s temperature swings, and the whole set carries a three year hassle free warranty. A little wipe down now and then, plus optional winter cover, keeps it looking its best for years.
Bring the sunset home
Those skis in your garage were never going to ski again, and a beige plastic chair was never going to make anyone stop and stare. A matching pair of Adirondack ski chairs with a Colorado sunset painted across the back does both jobs at once: it honors the gear and it earns its spot on the deck every evening. Take a look at the Set of 2 – Colorado Sunset Mountain Mural Ski Chairs, and if your head is already drifting toward your own peak, your own flag, or your own view, the custom designs crew is one phone call away. Worst case, you finally free up that corner of the garage. Best case, you never want to go back inside.
