Custom Bench Cushions

Build Your Bench Cushion

The bench is furniture’s most honest piece: a long flat deck that gets sat on, stood on, and used as a shelf. Hallway benches at the door, storage benches with hinged lids, dining benches at the table, garden benches out in the weather — all of them share one geometry, the long deck, and one fate: the frame lasts decades and the bench cushion dies in three springs. The replacement aisle answers with three universal lengths that fit none of them exactly.

This page is the hub for the whole bench family. Indoor benches and outdoor benches live in different fabric worlds — the collections below branch to whichever side of the door yours lives on — and storage benches get their own section, because a hinged lid changes the job. Every build is the same factory answer: measure the deck, pick the fabric tier, and we cut, fill and sew a custom bench cushion to your numbers.

Open the Customizer — Rectangle Preselected →

Build your bench cushion — start with the shape below.

Most benches take a rectangle — long decks 36–72 inches — but nooks and corner benches cut L-shapes, tapered decks cut as trapezoids (front and back widths entered separately), and curved garden benches want their own template. Pick a shape, enter your measurements, and see an instant estimate.

Hallway, storage, window, garden — every bench is the same job: pick a shape and type your numbers.

Pricing — estimated starting at

Popular Bench Sizes We Cut

Common bench decks and their typical sizes (typical, always measure):

Yours differs? That’s the point — we cut to your numbers.

How to Measure a Bench Cushion

One Bench, Two Fabric Worlds

Storage Bench Cushions — the Hinged-Lid Build

• Measure the opening, not the lid. Hinged-lid storage benches close on a lip or rim, and the pad sits inside it — a cushion cut to the lid’s full width jams the hinge side and gaps the opening side. Width and depth come from the inside walls, edge to edge.
• Thickness is a lid-clearance decision. The lid has to latch with the pad in place: most storage benches take 2–3 inches happily and fight at 4. If the old pad was thinner than you’d like, that number was set by the lid, not by comfort.
• Daily duty is the real spec. A storage bench opens several times a day and gets sat on every time someone puts shoes on — the 50D grade holds that rhythm, with an exact cut at the hinge side so the lid still latches.
• Closed boxes trap moisture. A foam core breathes and dries better than a fiber batt, and it doesn’t take on the musty smell fiber pads hold inside a sealed bench — the same vented-core logic as outdoor builds.

The hinged-lid job is its own discipline inside the bench family — the indoor bench page carries the full indoor build and fabric pool.

See all fabrics — pick by look, not budget — in the customizer.

Outdoor bench frames sold under the Hampton Bay name are already catalogued in our Hampton Bay replacement cushions index — 24 series, factory numbers on file — and other named lines sit in the replacement cushions library.

Frequently asked questions

Do you sell standard bench cushion sizes?

Yes — standard sizes too, in 3 clicks: 4-ft decks run about 48 × 18 × 3 and 5-ft about 60 × 18 × 3, so if your deck matches a common length, type the numbers into the customizer for the same instant factory-direct quote. Nothing is warehoused, so no length is ever out of stock.

What size cushion fits a storage bench?

Measure the inside walls of the opening, not the lid — typically 30–48 inches by 14–18 — and keep thickness at 2–3 inches so the lid still latches. A pad cut to the lid’s full width jams the hinge side.

Can I use an outdoor bench cushion indoors?

Yes — the weatherproof wovens are simply tougher than an indoor bench needs. The reverse fails fast: an indoor cotton pad left on a garden bench fades and soaks through in one season.

How do I keep a bench cushion from sliding?

We don’t sew on ties or gripper undersides — our factory can’t supply them reliably, so we won’t sell you the promise. A pad cut to your confirmed numbers sits the deck without wandering, and for chairs that get dragged around, a thin non-slip rug pad trimmed slightly smaller than the cushion, laid flat underneath, is the honest fix.

How thick should a bench cushion be?

2.5–3 inches is the standard bench build — enough loft to sit on without lifting knees past the table edge. Storage benches are lid-limited at 2–3 inches; deep garden benches take 4–5 where the frame allows.

Can one order cover indoor and outdoor benches?

Yes — one order mixes every bench in the house and the garden, each piece priced on its own area, and pieces sharing a fabric tier ship from the same dye lot.

Can you cut a trapezoid bench cushion?

Yes — tapered decks are a standard shape in the customizer: enter the front width and back width separately and the estimate prices the true panel area. Our trapezoid measurement guide walks the two-width method.

How long does a custom bench cushion take?

Made to order in 4–7 business days — straightforward pieces run 7–10 — and rush production is 3–5 business days for a surcharge. Production is separate from delivery (3–6 weeks door to door); typical US custom shops quote 3–6 weeks for the same build.

Do your cushions come with piping or welt cord?

Not as a standing option. Our sewing standard is clean, cord-free knife-edge seams — no decorative cord on any shape, any fabric. The flat profile wears evenly at the corners, cleans flat, and never traps debris along a raised seam.

Where are your cushions made?

In our own overseas factory — cut and sewn to your measurements, shipped factory-direct to your door. What decides how long a bench cushion lasts isn’t the country on the label; it’s foam density (we build on 50–65D foam), the fabric family (solution-dyed acrylic for garden benches, indoor weaves for the hallway), and seam construction — and we publish the numbers for all three. Factory-direct is why the same spec costs 40–60% less than a local shop: no middleman, no warehouse, no storefront. If made-in-USA is a hard requirement, a local upholsterer is the right call — budget 2–3x for US labor hours. Every order is made in 4–7 days, arrives in 3–6 weeks, and is backed by our free remake guarantee.

Is a Bench Cushion Right for You?

• Thickness is decided by the bench, not preference. A hinged lid that will not close is a thickness problem, not a width problem — check what the bench does (lid, arms, table height) before picking loft, or the fit fails in a dimension you never measured.
• An indoor pad will not survive the garden bench. Cotton and velvet lines fade and soak through in one season outdoors — pick the fabric pool for where the bench actually lives, because the wrong pool is a one-season cushion at a custom price.
• The cover unzips — wash it, or spot clean in place. The cover unzips — a full wash or spot cleaning in place, both in the care plan. A cut-to-size cover machine-washed harshly can shrink past its own tolerances, which is why these zippered builds spec a gentle cycle and air-dry.
• Custom-cut means non-returnable. Custom-cut means non-returnable. A cushion cut to your numbers fits exactly one frame on earth — tolerances are published in writing (±½″, ±¾″ over 36″), and anything outside them against your confirmed numbers is remade free, whenever the error is found.

Made by the factory that ships them

• Outdoor cushion factory for 10+ years — we cut, fill, and sew every order ourselves.
• Every dimension you send is re-checked before a single yard of fabric is cut.
• Made-to-order means any fabric, any piece, no minimum.
• If we cut it wrong — outside the ±½″ tolerance (±¾″ over 36″), wrong fabric, wrong build — remade free.

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