The Wooden Adirondack Chairs for a Porch, Built in Pairs
Every so often somebody calls the shop looking for a matching pair of chairs for the front porch, and about halfway through the conversation they get quiet and admit the thing they actually want has nothing to do with skiing. No graphics, no old top sheets, no story about the pass they wore out in 1994. Just two good wooden chairs that look like they belong on a porch in the Rockies and will still be there in twenty years. That is exactly what these are. The Rustic Chic Wooden Chairs are a matched set of two solid wood Adirondack chairs, no skis on them at all, and if you have been hunting for wooden Adirondack chairs for a porch that were actually built by hand instead of flat packed in a box, keep reading.
Not Everything We Make Started Life on a Mountain
Colorado Ski Chairs built its name on furniture made from retired skis and snowboards, and most of what leaves the shop in Manitou Springs still does. But the ski chair is not for everyone, and we have never pretended otherwise. Some folks love the idea of an old pair of skis worked into the seat back. Other folks just want clean lines and solid wood, and they want the two chairs to match so the porch does not look like it was furnished by accident.
That is the whole reason these exist. The Rustic Chic set is the answer for the second group. There are no skis hidden in the frame, no upcycled gear doing quiet structural work, nothing to explain to guests. It is honest solid wood, cut and joined and finished by the same hands that build the ski pieces, just without the ski. If you have spent an afternoon reading product pages full of reclaimed this and repurposed that and thought, that is lovely but I just want a real wooden chair, this is the one you were looking for.
We say this plainly because the last thing we want is somebody ordering wooden Adirondack chairs for a porch and expecting a ski to show up in the mail. These are wood. Good wood, built to last, and built as a pair.
What You Actually Get: A Matched Set of Two
The set is two chairs, built to match, sold together. Each one measures 55 inches tall, 36 inches deep, and 36 inches wide, so these are full size Adirondack chairs with a tall fan back, not the compact patio kind that leaves a tall person folded up like a lawn chair. The depth is the part people underestimate. At 36 inches deep you actually sit back into the thing, the way an Adirondack chair is supposed to work, with the slope of the seat doing the job it was designed to do back when somebody first sketched one out in the mountains of New York a hundred years ago.
Two chairs is the sweet spot for most porches, and it is the reason we sell them as a pair. One Adirondack chair is a nice thought and a lonely one. Two chairs is a conversation, a morning coffee, a place to sit with somebody and not say much. The set also solves the matching problem before it starts. Buy two chairs from two different runs, even from the same maker, and the stain never lines up quite right. Buy the set and they are cut, stained, and finished together, so the pair reads as one piece of furniture instead of two that happen to be near each other.
They are heavy in the way real wooden furniture is heavy, which is to say they stay put when the wind comes up the valley, and they feel like something when you drag one a foot to the left to chase the sun. That heft is not an accident. It is what you get when the frame is solid wood instead of hollow resin pretending to be wood from ten feet away.
Rocker or Stationary, and Why You Should Think About It
Here is a choice most people do not know they have. Each set can be built as rockers or as stationary chairs, and you tell us which when you order. Same chair, same look, two very different ways to spend an evening.
The stationary version sits flat and solid, the classic Adirondack stance, planted and permanent. It is the right call for a deck with a railing where you want the chairs at a fixed angle to the view, or anywhere kids and dogs are going to be using them as a jungle gym. Nothing to pinch, nothing to tip, just a chair that stays where you put it.
The rocker version is the one people fall for. There is something about a wide wooden Adirondack chair that also rocks, slow and low, that turns a porch into the place everybody fights over. If your porch or patio is where the day winds down, get the rockers. If it is more of a formal front-of-house situation, or the surface is uneven, the stationary set is the safer bet. Either way the price is the same and the look is the same. It comes down to how you want to sit.
Pick Your Stain and Make the Pair Your Own
The chairs ship in whatever stain color you pick, and you pick any of them. There is no short list of three approved shades and a surcharge for the fourth. When you order, you note the stain you want, and if you want something other than the standard look, you just say so in the order notes. Natural and warm for a cedar-cabin feel, something darker and richer for a modern deck, a driftwood gray to lean into the rustic side of rustic chic, whatever suits the house.
This matters more than it sounds like it should. A porch set is a big visual anchor. Two chairs at 36 inches wide apiece take up real estate, and the stain is what ties them to the trim, the door, the railing, the rest of the outdoor space. Getting to choose the exact color instead of settling for the closest thing on a shelf is the difference between furniture that matches your house and furniture that just happens to be sitting near it.
If you want to go further, we can. This is a custom shop first. Two rustic wooden Adirondack chairs for a porch is the standard order, but a set of four for a big deck, a different back style, a taller or shorter build for a specific spot, that is all a phone call away. The standard set covers most people. The custom door is open for everybody else.
Built to Live Outside, Not to Hide From Weather
A porch chair that has to come inside every time the sky looks mean is not really a porch chair. These are built to stay out. The wood is finished in high quality exterior oil paint and sealer, the same finish system we put on the ski furniture that lives on decks from Breckenridge to the flat brown winters of the front range, and it holds up. Sun, snow, the freeze and thaw that destroys cheaper furniture, the chairs are made to take it and stay colorful and solid through the seasons.
Suitable for indoor and outdoor use is the official line, and it is true, but the honest version is that these want to be outside. Put them on a covered porch and they will outlast the porch. Put them out in the open and they will still do fine, they just show their age a little more gracefully, the way good wood does. A wooden Adirondack chair for a porch is meant to gray a bit at the edges and earn a little character. That is not wear, that is patina, and it looks right on a mountain house.
Care is close to nothing. Hose them off when the pollen coats everything in spring, wipe them down when a drink goes over, and every few years, if you are the type, a fresh coat of finish will have them looking brand new again. If you are not the type, they will be fine anyway. That is the point of building furniture like this. It does not need you to fuss over it.
The Comfort Is Built Into the Angles
People buy an Adirondack chair with their eyes and keep it because of how it sits. The shape has been around for more than a century for one reason, which is that the geometry works. The seat slopes back, the tall fan back cradles you instead of standing you at attention, and the wide flat arms give you a place to set a coffee, a book, a phone you keep meaning to put down. On this set those arms are generous, wide enough to actually use, and at 55 inches the back is tall enough to rest your head against when you finally stop moving for the day.
There is a myth that a good wooden Adirondack chair for a porch has to be uncomfortable, all right angles and slats digging in. That comes from cheap copies that got the pitch wrong to save a few cents on lumber. Get the angles right and the chair does the work for you. You sink in, your weight settles, and an hour goes by before you think about getting up. That is the whole idea. A porch chair should make leaving feel like a chore.
The 36 inch depth is what makes it lounge instead of perch. Shallow chairs put your knees up and your back straight, which is fine for eating dinner and terrible for watching a sunset. These are built to watch the sunset. Add the rocker option and you have a chair people will quietly compete for every evening, which, if we are being honest, is a good problem for a porch to have.
Two Chairs Also Make a Serious Gift
A matched set of solid wood chairs is one of those gifts that lands harder than the giver expects. New house, a retirement, a fortieth anniversary, a couple who finally bought the cabin they talked about for twenty years, this is the present that ends up in the family photos for the next decade. It is not a gift card and it is not another thing that gets shoved in a closet. It is furniture the recipients will sit in most days, think of you every so often, and still be using long after they have forgotten what most of that year’s gifts even were.
The stain choice makes it personal without any risk. You do not need to guess their taste in graphics or colors that clash with the house, you just pick a warm, versatile wood tone and let the piece speak for itself. And because it ships nationwide from the shop in Manitou Springs, it works whether the porch you are furnishing is down the street or three states away. If the timing is tight around a specific date, call the shop early so the build window lines up with the occasion.
Where a Pair of Wooden Adirondack Chairs for a Porch Belongs
The obvious home is the front porch, two chairs angled toward the street or the mountains, the spot where you drink the first coffee and watch the neighborhood wake up. But this set travels. It works on a back deck facing the aspens, flanking a fire pit where the rockers really earn their keep, on a cabin porch that needs seating that looks like it grew there, at the top of a dock, under a covered patio at a rental where guests will photograph them without being asked.
They are a natural fit for the mountain-town short term rental, too. Hosts up in the resort towns are always after furniture that reads as authentic Colorado, survives a hard season of renters, and does not look like it came from the same catalog as every other cabin on the block. A matched set of solid wood chairs on the porch does that quietly. It tells the guest that somebody cared about the place, and it holds up to a lot more abuse than the guest will ever suspect.
Inside works too. A tall fan-back Adirondack in a sunroom, a reading corner, a big open cabin great room with the vaulted ceiling, the chairs do not know they are indoors and they look just as much at home. The 55 inch height gives them presence in a room without crowding it. Two of them by a window is a room’s worth of character in one purchase.
What Made to Order Really Means Here
These are not sitting in a warehouse waiting for a shipping label. Each set is built to order in Manitou Springs, Colorado, which is a real town at the foot of Pikes Peak and not a marketing flourish. When you order, the shop builds your two chairs, in your stain, as rockers or stationary, and then they ship nationwide. It takes longer than clicking buy on something already boxed, and that is the trade. You wait a little and you get a set built for you instead of pulled off a pile.
The warranty tells you how the shop feels about its own work. Every set is warrantied 100 percent for the first year. After that, the shop only charges cost on materials for any repairs, no labor markup, no runaround. That is not a warranty written by a lawyer to get out of things. It is a warranty written by people who expect these chairs to still be in service long after the receipt is lost, and who plan to be around to fix them if something ever goes wrong. The chairs carry very high ratings and a lot of satisfied customers behind them, which is the quiet kind of proof that matters more than any claim on a page.
The set runs 2,491 dollars, marked down from 2,991, for the pair. Not the cheapest chairs you can buy, and nobody at the shop will tell you they are. They are the chairs you buy once. If you have already replaced a set of big-box porch chairs twice, you already know the math.
A Straight Word on Logos and Branded Sets
Because these land on a lot of commercial porches, lodges, rental properties, and company patios, the branding question comes up. Here is the honest answer. The chairs themselves are solid wood and can be stained any color you like, and a hand painted scene or accent is on the table if you want one. A company logo is a different animal. We do not paint logos freehand, because a painted logo never holds its exact shape and color, and a brand mark that is close but not right is worse than none at all. A logo goes on as a clean logo decal floated onto the finished wood, or as an aluminum or plastic applique, each priced a little differently. That keeps your mark crisp and correct. Branded and bulk pricing is quoted on a call, because it depends on the mark, the method, and the count. The number for that is 303.775.7273, and it is the only number that reaches the shop.
Why Buy This Set From Colorado Ski Chairs
Fair question, since anybody can sell you a wooden chair. The short version is that these come from a real workshop run by real people who build furniture for a living and stand behind it for years. The wood is solid, the joinery is done by hand, the finish is the outdoor-grade system proven on furniture that lives through Colorado winters, and the two chairs actually match because they are made together. You get to pick the stain, pick rockers or stationary, and pick up the phone if you want something the standard set does not cover.
And there is the company it keeps. When you buy from a shop that built its name turning retired skis into Adirondack chairs, you are buying from people who think hard about how a chair sits, how it wears, and how long it lasts, because that is the whole business. The Rustic Chic set is the version of that obsession without the ski. Same care, same warranty, same shop in Manitou Springs. Just clean wood and clean lines, built as a pair, ready for your porch. You can see the current set and start an order on the Rustic Chic Wooden Chairs page, and if you want to see the rest of what the shop builds, the Adirondack chairs and the benches are worth a look while you are deciding.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these wooden Adirondack chairs really made without any skis?
Yes. The Rustic Chic Wooden Chairs are solid wood, with no skis or snowboards in the build. Most of what Colorado Ski Chairs makes is built from retired skis, but this set is the clean solid wood option for people who want the classic look without the gear.
Can I get the set as rocking chairs instead of stationary?
Yes. Each set can be built as rockers or as stationary chairs at no change in price. You choose which when you order, and note it along with your stain color in the order notes.
Will a pair of wooden Adirondack chairs for a porch hold up outside year round?
They are built for it. The chairs are finished in high quality exterior oil paint and sealer and are made to stay colorful and weatherproof through sun, snow, and freeze-thaw. They work indoors or outdoors, and a covered porch will extend their life even further.
How long does the set take, and where does it ship from?
Each set is made to order in Manitou Springs, Colorado, then ships nationwide, so plan for a build window rather than instant shipping. Every set is warrantied 100 percent for the first year, with repairs after that charged at cost of materials only.
If a matched pair of solid wood chairs is what your porch has been missing, this is the set. Pick your stain, pick rockers or stationary, and let the shop build you something worth keeping. See the full details and start your order on the Rustic Chic Wooden Chairs page, or call 303.775.7273 if you would rather talk it through with the people who will actually build them.
