The Snowboard Bench for a Cabin With a Moose in the Aspens
There is a specific kind of quiet that settles into a cabin around four in the afternoon, when the light goes long and gold and everyone who was out on the hill is now inside peeling off wet socks. Somebody needs a place to sit and drop their boots, and somebody else needs a low surface to set down a coffee that will go cold anyway. A snowboard bench for a cabin solves both problems at once, and the Moose among the Aspens Snowboard Bench from Colorado Ski Chairs solves them with a moose standing in a grove of white trunks, hand painted the length of one real retired snowboard, which is a lot more personality than a folding stool ever offered.
The Board Had a Life Before It Was a Bench
Every one of these benches starts as a snowboard that already earned its scars. Somebody rode it. It caught an edge on an icy traverse, took a rock or two in a thin early-season base, and eventually got hung in a garage because it was too good to throw out and too old to ride hard. That is the raw material here, and it matters. When you build a snowboard bench for a cabin out of a deck that actually spent winters on a mountain, the piece carries a little of that history into the room. The camber, the sidecut, the faint dings along the edges, those are not defects to sand away. They are the reason the thing has a story instead of a spec sheet.
Colorado Ski Chairs works out of Manitou Springs, and the shop keeps a stock of retired and vintage boards for exactly this. You are not looking at a factory blank that got printed to look weathered. You are looking at a board that was ridden, retired, and then given a second job holding up a pair of boots and a mug. There is a nice honesty to that, the kind a 55 year old who still has their first season pass in a drawer somewhere tends to appreciate.
What It Actually Is, One Snowboard and a Lot of Hand Painting
Here is the plain version, because the plain version is what a search engine and a careful buyer both want. The Moose among the Aspens Snowboard Bench is a single real snowboard, hand painted with a moose-and-aspen mural, mounted on a low base so it works as a bench, a coffee table, or a side table. It runs roughly 60 inches long, 18 inches deep, and 17 inches tall, which is bench height and coffee-table height at the same time. It holds up to 300 pounds, so sitting on it is the expected use, not a gamble.
One board is the whole story for this piece, and that is worth being clear about. A single snowboard genuinely does make a bench or a coffee table, because the deck is long and wide enough to carry weight across a low frame. That is different from the shop’s snowboard chairs, which need at least three boards to build the seat and the back. If you have seen a Colorado Ski Chairs snowboard chair and wondered why a bench costs less, that is the reason. A snowboard bench for a cabin is one board doing honest work. A chair is a small pile of them. Both are accurate to how they are built, and neither is a replica of anything. This is a real ridden snowboard turned into furniture, not a recreation of a lift or a mass-market lookalike.
Why a Snowboard Bench for a Cabin Earns Its Keep
Cabins and mountain places have a furniture problem that flatland houses do not. Space is tight, entryways are narrow, and everything that comes through the door is wet, muddy, or covered in pine needles for half the year. A snowboard bench for a cabin fits that life because it does three jobs and asks for one footprint. Push it against the wall by the door and it is a boot bench. Slide it in front of the couch and it is a coffee table deep enough for drinks, a couple of books, a laptop, and a dinner plate all at once. Set it between two chairs on the porch and it is a shared side table nobody has to reach across.
At about 60 inches long it seats two adults comfortably and three if they are friendly. It is light enough that one person can carry it outside for a weekend cookout and back in on Monday without recruiting help. Homeowners with skinny hallways tend to love it for one specific reason, which is that it holds a family’s worth of boots without eating the whole corridor. It leans against the wall, does its job, and looks like something you chose on purpose rather than something you settled for.
Moose among the Aspens Snowboard Bench
The Moose, the Aspens, and Why No Two Land the Same
There is a small painting puzzle built into this piece that most people never notice, and it is the thing that makes each one unique. Aspen groves are all vertical, tall pale trunks reaching straight up. A snowboard deck is one long horizontal. So painting a stand of aspens down the length of a board means fitting a bunch of up-and-down trees onto a left-to-right surface, and getting that to feel natural takes some planning before a brush ever touches the wood. The trunks march across the board, the moose stands dark among them, and the little knots and eyes in the bark go in last, by hand, one at a time.
Because every board starts with its own outline, its own length, and its own set of dings, the grove never lands in exactly the same spot twice. The moose might sit a hair left of center on one, dead in the middle on another. That is not sloppiness. That is what happens when a person paints a scene onto a surface that already has a shape and a past. If you want the mountain-place look without the mass-produced sameness, a hand painted snowboard bench for a cabin gets you there, and the paint is done in durable exterior colors so the scene holds up to real weather rather than fading after one season on the porch.
Sitting, Resting Drinks, and the 300 Pound Question
People ask, reasonably, whether a snowboard can actually take being sat on. The honest answer is yes, and the number is 300 pounds. The board is mounted on a proper low base, not balanced on its tips, so the weight goes where weight should go. Two adults can sit and lace up boots without anybody hearing an ominous creak. Kids can climb on it, which they will, because it is exactly the right height for a kid to treat as a launch pad.
The surface is deep enough to be genuinely useful and not just decorative. Eighteen inches front to back means you can set down a couple of coffee mugs, a stack of paperbacks, a laptop, and a dinner plate at the same time without playing Tetris. That depth is what lets one piece flip between boot bench and coffee table depending on where you put it in the room. A narrow ledge would force you to choose. This one does not. It is a snowboard bench for a cabin that also happens to be a very good low table, and you get to decide which job it does this week.
Make It Yours: Colors, Animals, and Board Brands
The stock version is the moose in the aspens, but very little about this piece is locked in. Colors are yours to choose, so if your cabin leans toward warm reds and browns instead of the cooler blues and whites, the grove can move that direction. Want a different animal standing among the trees, a bear, an elk, a stubborn old mountain goat that will not move off the trail? Ask, and the shop will paint the animal that fits your place instead of the default. If a particular board brand meant something to you, you can request specific decks, subject to what is on hand.
This is where the piece stops being a catalog item and starts being yours. A lot of buyers use that flexibility to match a room they already love, or to sneak in a private joke only their family will get. There is no wrong answer, and the shop would rather build the thing you actually want than talk you into the thing on the shelf. If you have an idea that is not on the product page, the fastest way to sort it out is a quick call to 303.775.7273, where a real person will tell you honestly whether your idea will look great or whether it needs a small tweak first.
Living With It Through Colorado Seasons
Colorado weather does not do subtle. Sun that bleaches, dry air that cracks lesser furniture, wet spring snow, and the kind of temperature swings that make a deck expand and contract in a single afternoon. This bench is built with that in mind. The mural is painted in durable exterior colors and sealed, and the whole piece is meant to live indoors or out, on a covered porch, in a mudroom, or in the middle of a living room where it will mostly dodge the weather anyway.
If you keep it outside, the usual common sense applies. A covered spot beats full exposure, and wiping off standing water and snow will keep any wood furniture looking sharper for longer. Do that much and a snowboard bench for a cabin will outlast most of the store-bought stuff you have replaced twice already. The board survived winters on a mountain before it ever became furniture. It is not fragile. It just appreciates not being left to sit in a puddle all March.
A Gift for the People Who Met on a Hill
This one moves a lot as a gift, and the reasons make sense once you hear them. It gets bought as a wedding present by friends who know the couple met on a chairlift, or in a lift line, or at the bar at the base after last chair. It shows up as a housewarming gift for the person who finally bought the mountain place they always talked about. It lands as a milestone present for someone who has every piece of gear already and does not need another jacket. A snowboard bench for a cabin says something a gift card cannot, which is that you paid attention to who this person is and where they are happiest.
Because it is customizable, you can make the gift specific. Their cabin colors, their favorite animal, a board brand that means something to them. That turns a nice object into a personal one, and personal is the whole game with a gift like this. It is the kind of present that gets pointed at when guests come over, with the story told again and again, which is more than you can say for most things that come in a box.
Why Buy From Colorado Ski Chairs
Colorado Ski Chairs builds furniture and decor from recycled and new skis and snowboards, by hand, in Colorado, and ships nationwide. That is the short version and it happens to be the accurate one. Everything is made to order, which is why you get to pick the colors and the animal in the first place. You are dealing with the people who actually build the piece, not a call center that forwards your notes to a warehouse three states away.
The Moose among the Aspens Snowboard Bench lists at $595, and it sits in the shop’s benches lineup alongside other low pieces you can find under tables. It is one of the steadier sellers, mostly to people furnishing a mountain place who want something with a story instead of another catalog console. If that describes the room you are trying to finish, you are in the right spot. Reclaimed materials, made in the USA, one at a time, by folks who have stood in a lift line and know what a real board feels like underfoot.
Where It Fits Beyond the Cabin
The name says cabin, and the cabin is where these land most often, but the piece is not picky about its address. A snowboard bench for a cabin works just as well in a Denver bungalow with a mountain streak, a Breckenridge condo that needs one real object among the rental-grade furniture, or a lake house that wants a nod to winter in the middle of July. It reads as intentional in a ski lodge entryway, where a row of them can hold a whole rack of guests’ boots and still look like decor instead of a mudroom afterthought.
People also tuck them into offices, oddly enough. A reclaimed-snowboard bench in a reception area or a break room says more about a company than a framed motivational print ever will, especially for outfits that want their space to feel like the mountains they clearly love. Short-term rental owners like them because guests photograph them and post the photos, which is free marketing that also happens to be a genuinely nice bench. Wherever it goes, it does the same trick, one honest piece with a story, holding weight and holding drinks, looking like somebody chose it on purpose.
The Craft Behind the Base
The board gets the attention, but the base is what makes it furniture instead of a wall hanging you sat on by mistake. The deck is mounted low and solid so the geometry works for real people doing real things, lacing boots, flopping down after a long drive, setting a full plate down without watching it slide. That 17-inch height is deliberate. It is tall enough to sit on without folding yourself in half and low enough to serve as a coffee table in front of a couch. Getting a curved snowboard to sit flat and stable on a base takes more fitting than you would guess, and it is the sort of thing you only notice when it is done badly somewhere else.
Everything is built by hand, which means small variations are part of the deal and not a flaw. Two benches ordered the same week will differ a little because the boards underneath them differ, and because a person painted each grove rather than a printer spitting out identical copies. If you want mass-produced uniformity, big-box stores are full of it and it is cheaper. If you want a piece where the maker’s hand shows, that is exactly what you are paying for here, and it is why a snowboard bench for a cabin from this shop tends to outlive the trends it quietly ignores.
How Ordering and Delivery Work
Because each bench is made to order, ordering is more conversation than checkout when you want anything customized. You can buy the standard moose-in-the-aspens version straight off the product page, or you can call first and talk through colors, a different animal, or a specific board brand before anything gets painted. The shop would genuinely rather get the details right up front than guess, so a two-minute phone call at 303.775.7273 often saves a round of back-and-forth later.
Colorado Ski Chairs ships nationwide, and if you are in Colorado, local pickup and delivery are on the table too, which is handy for a piece this size when you would rather not wait on a freight truck. Lead times move with the season and the shop’s queue, so if you have a hard deadline like a wedding or a housewarming, say so when you order and they will tell you honestly whether it fits. The point is that you are dealing with the people building the thing, so the answers you get are real answers, not a script. Order the bench you actually want, get it built by hand in Manitou Springs, and put it wherever the boots pile up.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many snowboards go into this bench?
Just one. A single real snowboard is long and wide enough to make a bench or a coffee table on a low base. That is different from the shop’s snowboard chairs, which need at least three boards to build the seat and back. For this bench, one board does the whole job.
Can I actually sit on a snowboard bench, or is it just decor?
You can sit on it. It is rated to 300 pounds and mounted on a solid low base, so two adults can sit and lace up boots without worry. It is built to be used, not just looked at.
Can I change the design, colors, or the animal?
Yes. Colors are yours to choose, you can request a different animal in the grove, such as a bear or an elk, and you can ask about specific board brands. Call 303.775.7273 to talk through a custom version before you order.
Is this a real snowboard or a replica?
It is a real, retired snowboard that was ridden and then rebuilt into furniture. It is not a replica or a mass-produced lookalike, and it is not a ski lift piece. Every board carries its own dings and outline, so no two benches are identical.
Bring the Grove Home
If your cabin, porch, or entryway needs one honest piece that seats two, holds the boots, and doubles as the low table you keep meaning to buy, this is it. Take a look at the Moose among the Aspens Snowboard Bench, picture it by your door with a mug and a paperback on it, and if you want the colors or the animal changed to fit your place, call 303.775.7273 and just ask. Aspens on a bench, and not one of them needs raking.
