Martha Stewart Outdoor Furniture Reviews

My husband purchased a Martha Stewart Patio set for me in June of 2005. There are six chairs with cushions, a glass table, and the umbrella. The set cost over $500 at our local Kmart. We took great care of the set. The cushions were put away each and every night and the umbrella was not left up, it was put down each night. After only two months, one of the cushions began to frey at the seam and the umbrella seam has a tear around the edge and its crank is broken. I am extremely disappointed in this product. We were very pleased to purchase the set. It is a beautiful set, but aftering paying so much money and thinking we were getting better quality for out money, we were extremely upset and will never purchase another Martha Stewart piece of furniture. I tried to go on line to her direct website to file a complaint with her directly, but could not find a complaint desk for her.

Decided to search the internet for a replacement top for the patio furniture we purchased in August of 2005. The glass tabletop shattered for no apparent reason about two weeks ago. Luckily no one was hurt.

We bought a Martha Stewart Glass Table with 8 cushioned chairs. It was almost $300 on sale. At the end of the season, we stored it in my basement. Last week, my husband and son were bringing the table out for the season. They cleaned it off with the glass cleaner you attach to your hose. They wanted to let the table dry before bringing it to the deck. To my husband's surprise, the table started to pop like popcorn...and thus, shattered into shards. The shards popped into smaller shards. It was an unbelievable sight. Small shards of glass went into their skin. Both were bleeding. Fortunately-they were not hurt worse than they were. But they could have been. Neither had been wreckless with the table at any point. Both, witnessed what was described as a spontaneous combustion.

I purchased a Martha Stewart outdoor patio set with a glass table top in 2002. Last summer, 2005, I was in my kitchen and heard an explosion. When I went out to my deck the table top had shatttered and was popping like popcorn. I even left the house to get a neighbor to see it and 15 minutes later it was still popping. When I went to KMart about it, they said there was nothing they could do since the set was so old the sun probably did it even though it was only about 70F that day. They wanted me to pay another $199 for a new table. This set was kept in storage wrapped in blankets from November - April. There was no evidence of anything striking the table. I just, today, learned from a local radio station that this is not a single incident that happened upon me.

The glass top shattered last sunday 5/21/06 on my 56 or so patio table. No one was around it when we heard a loud crash. I looked out the window and the top was in a million pieces.

I purchased the Martha Stewart - Cape May, Patio Set, 6 chairs, table, and umbrella end of 2004. Set is stored in the winter and covered when there is any sign of rain. My set is beginning to rust. I called K-Mart and was told this set is no longer under warranty and that they do not even have a contact for me to call. I have been surfing the internet for information only to find complaints about Martha Stewart's table tops exploding. This really concerns me. I am unable to afford to replace my set at this time. Will have to think about doing that soon.

Two months ago I purchased a patio table and chair set with umbrella. Today, the glass table top shattered into thousands of pieces embedding themselves into the chair upholstery.

I purchased a Martha Stewart outdoor furniture set 2 years ago and the glass top shattered all over the place into tiny little pieces. It took me hours to clean up and I have pets and childeren that got glass in thier paws/feet. There are no trees near my table and I have no idea how the galss shattered and cannot find a replacement piece of glass for it anywhere.

i purchased a Martha Stewart Patio table and chairs on February 22, 2002. When I came home the afternoon of May 22, 2006 I found the glass top had shattered into thousands of pieces. There was no evidence of anything falling on it. The patio is covered with a 12 X 35' roof which is part of the main house roof built as one. A ceiling fan was on it the low setting directly over the table so weather was not a factor.

Bought a patio set table burst into many pieces... stuck with chairs and no table. hard to replace just a table. looked and saw how many people had the same thing happen to them--- dont think i will buy another martha stewart product of any kind.

Glass patio tabletop shattered into million pieces while setting up on our deck after bringing out of winter storage. Not to mention it took many hours of cleaning up with little pieces of glass in the deck crevices. We bought ours back in 2003.

Several years ago I purchased the Victoria Sofa Set from a local K-Mart store. I have been using the furniture for about a year and a half on our screened in back porch. To my suprise today (May 21,2006)I heard a loud bang only to find the table shattered into a million pieces. Praise the Lord no one was using it at the moment! Even after it exploded, the pieces on the floor were making a popping sound.

This morning I woke up to a loud sound. I got out of bed to investigate and noticed that my Martha Stewart Victoria patio table had shattered into a million pieces; the lazy susan piece has not shattered (yet?). The mess is indescribable; ofcourse shoes are mandatory until all of the glass is completely cleaned up. I'm taking pictures first; I've never seen this happen before.

Last year my Martha Stewart Santa Barbara table shattered into a million pieces for no apparent reason. I called the manufacturer Courtyard Creations and they sent a replacement for $100.00. Yesterday I went outside and found the second table also shattered.

We came home last night to find our Marth Stewart Victoria patio table shattered all over the deck. In viewing this site I see that it is a known problem. Luckily no one was home when it happened, although the dog was outside. We paid a good amount of money for all the pieces available for this set and now without the table we will have to start all over again. We don't have the money to run out and buy $800.00 worth of furniture.

We also purchased a Martha Stewart outdoor patio set in the summer of 2004. Our glass table top shattered for, what appears to be, no apparent reason. We have been trying to replace it but am finding it impossible or too costly ($225.00 has been the cheapest).

I ran across this website trying to find-out how to replace the glass on the Martha Stewart patio set that I purchased for over $400. I purchased the set in 2002 and the glass was found broken in 2005. Until this date I had been puzzled as to what had happened.

We Purchased A Victoria Collection Patio Dining table and 5 chairs. It was about a year ago. I woke up one morning to see that the table top had just shattered into a million tiny pieces. There was no consevable reason that anything caused this to happen. It is very strange. The small glass turn table was not affected. I would appreciate any compensation in this matter. We have no table and a big mess to clean up!!

Count me in as another consumer with a shattered patio table from the Martha Stewart patio furniture collection, sold at K-mart. We purchased in May 2003 and it shattered in July 2005.

I purchased my Martha Stewart Victorian Collection Pation Furniture in the Spring of 2002. By the end of summer 2002 the paint began to chip and the entire set began to rust. Now, 4 years later the entire set has rusted, the umbrella has rusted and broken, and the chairs are very wobbly and falling apart. Fortunately, my glas tabletop has not spontaneously shattered as I have read happening to others but I fear that it could at any time. I have a 3 1/2 and 5 1/2 year old and fear for their safety.

We bought the Martha Stewart Everyday Victoria Dining Table set from KMart. Late summer of last year (2005) the glass on the dining table shattered into thousands of pieces. This occurred quite late at night. We were in bed and heard a loud pop. There was no evidence of an event to contribute to the glass shattering.

I just read about a lawsuit against Kmart for a glass patio table shattering. I can't believe it! I not only had a Martha Stewart table shatter years ago... but mine was tragic! I was attempting to put a Martha Stewart umbrella in the top of the table. My granddaughter was under the table trying to guide the umbrella in. The entire table shattered.

I purchased a Martha Stewart Outdoor Patio Furniture Set at a K-Mart store located in Closter, New Jersey in 2003. Although the set warranted that it had an aluminum frame with a 10 year warranty, the frame around the table and chairs rusted.

In June of 2002, we purchased Martha Stewart's "Victorian" Outdoor Furniture for our summer shore house. A Table with a lazy susan, five chairs, umbrella, two rockers, and a 2/3 person swing. This past January (2006), I received a call from our neighbor down the shore (we live in Philadelphia) that our "table exploded". She stated there was a loud "pop" and she look over at our deck and the table top was in a million pieces.

I bought a $600 Martha Stewart set last July and last week the glass burst into pieces. The chairs are also starting to rust. I always store my sets indoors for the winter.

I purchased a Martha Stewart Madison Collection Table in July of 2004 - this summer - it was sitting on our deck and the glass shattered in millions of pieces. Thank God no one was sitting around the table at that time. Understand this has been an ongoing complaint!

We purchased a Martha Stewart Victoria Patio set with a table and 5 chairs and the umbrella. We spent $500 and expected this to last for a very long time. I don't know what else to do. K-Mart has had no answers for me and I have contacted Martha stewart and they have told me that they do not have any cushion that would fit this set.

I was just searching the internet to buy a new tabletop for my Martha Stewart collection coffee table, when I came across the article about the shattering tabletop. Just last week, my coffee table top from the Martha Stewart Collection also shattered. It was bizarre; the glass actually popping up and down on the ground. Fortunately, no one was near the table when it happened. I have been clamouring to find a replacement since it is part of the sofa and chaise set I purchased. I appeciate your site having this article, so I know others have had the same thing happen and now I won't be looking for a replacement from this collection.

I purchased a Martha Stewart Victorian Patio Furniture Set from K-Mart. This set included five patio chairs and an oval patio table with a rotating server. I also, purchased the matching patio umbrella and an umbrella stand. This is was my second season of using this set. Two weeks ago, I heard a lot commotion that sounded like shattering glass. To my awful surprise, I noticed my tempered glass table top from my patio table had shattered and was some of the broken pieces was still popping and cracking. I have emailed JRA Furniture Company for a replacement and this has gone ignored.

Yesterday, I cleaned my patio, and I washed my Victoria collection of patio furniture (Martha Stewart) and this morning I went out to have coffee and saw that my table top had shattered into a million pieces. I have my furniture under a covered patio so nothing could have fallen on it. We purchased the entire set, the table with chairs, the chaise lounge, 2 rocking chairs, a seatee and the little top with glass on it also (am I to fear that this will shatter also). Even if my furniture is on our patio and not subject to the elements, the paint has peeled. Our son purchased the same table and chairs and his was on some direct sun and it also peeled. We were going to have a family cook out tonight with our sons and granddaughters, thank God it happed last night and not while we were eating.

I purchased the Martha Stewart Victorian Style Patio Furniture in the spring of 2004 and when I took it out of Storage during the summer of 2005, I noticed many small tears in the cushions and the metal was starting to flake. Now this spring, as I am getting my patio ready, I noticed that the cushions aren't usable as they are falling apart. Most of the rips are located on the very top of the cushions of the backrests. The metal continues to flake and now is rusting. I have not been able to find replacement cushions. I have read through the series of complaints and am surprised at the numbers.

My parents bought my husband and me a Martha Stewart patio set as a wedding shower gift in June. We set it all up in mid-August when we finally moved into our house. By the end of August, the table shattered. We had the table up for about 2 weeks. There was a rain storm that night but it was not capable of shattering a table!

I purchased Martha Stewart patio furniture in 2003 and the glass on my two seater set just shattered for no apparent reason as well. I have just now been made aware that I am not the only one that has been a victim of poor quality. Luckily my husband and I were sitting across the patio when it happened. But there is no replacement glass and when I called K-Mart, they were no help and said they had never heard of this so I let it go. Nice to see I am not the only one, but doesn't excuse the sale of poor quality and possibly dangerous furniture.

We purchased a Martha Stewart Patio Set with five chairs, Bar Set with 4 chairs, Love Seat and matching coffee table, and the swing with the canopy, all from the Victorian collection. We have spent quite a bit of money on this furniture. We purchased them 3 yrs. ago. The glass on our patio set shattered last summer, for no apparent reason.

I purchased a Martha Stewart patio set. For no reason the glass top on the table was shattered. I had stored the set in my shed with nothing on it or around it. I went out to get it ready for spring/summer and found the entire glass top had shattered for no reason.

I purchased $1893 worth of Martha Stewart Victoria collection patio furniture (2 sets with umbrellas, 5 lounge chairs, 2 rockers, swing, loveseat, oval glass sofa table.)I used turtle wax on all of the frames before we set it outside for the first time and spent $400 on covers for the furniture during summer use. The furniture was put away in the winter in our storage shed. When we brought out the furniture the next spring, some of the furniture was rusted on the arms and legs, the cushions shredded and fell apart. I contacted K-Mart, K-Mart corporate, and the company in Cerritos California that manufactured the furniture. My year warranty was up by 2 months so nothing was done. The furniture was bought in May but housed at the local K-Mart until our pool was complete. We picked it up on July 6th.

The glass table top from the Martha Stewart Nantucket Collection Patio set shattered. I purchased it on March 7, 2005 and it broke on March 31, 2006. From what I'm reading they must be set to self-destruct. When I swept up the pieces of the glass; they continued to pop, causing shards of glass to spray. My feet and hands were cut up, but nothing too severe. I am not happy with the workmanship of this set. The joints of the table and chairs rusted not long after they were purchased and the paint chips easily. The fact that the glass shattered for no reason is the final straw. Martha I want my money back.

The glass to my Martha Stewart Bar Harbor Patio Collection shattered for no reason last night. The glass which I thought was suppose to be saftey glass is in a millon pieces all over my deck.

I purchased the Santa Barbara collection patio furniture in late Spring of 2005. The set has light normal wear and tear and has not required storage, as I live in sunny So. Cal. This afternoon my table top shattered into a million little pieces. My boyfriend was home at the time it happened and explained that he was inside with the kids when he heard a loud crash. He ran outside and saw our table, completely shattered. There was no plausible explanation. The kids were indoors and we could not find anything that may have caused the table to shatter the way it did.

Victoria patio furniture set, by Martha Stewart collection from Kmart. The frames began to rust within months, the cushions faded within a year, and most recently, the coffee table shattered spontaneously.

I purchased a Martha Stewart patio set (Madison collection) early summer of 2004. Toward the end of last summer (2005), one evening the glass top of the table mysteriously shattered. The set was never abused since it is just my husband and I who use it. (Have you ever tried to sweep up a gadzillion pieces of glass - believe me it was no easy task.) I have tried contacting the manufacturer to no avail. I have also tried to get information from the local K-Mart store, again with no results. If there is a class action for this, I certainly want to be a part of it. What I really would like is a replacement table.

My husband and I bought thye Martha Stewart Victoria Patio Furniture collection (table, umbrella, five chairs, and chaise lounge) in March of 2005. One year later, all but one chair cushion is destroyed. The started to shred and fall apart. When I called KMart to get replacement cushions, they said that they would call us in a week with information. They never called, but I did get a letter in the mail saying that I could buy them online. The problem is that they are not listed in the website. I paid approx $500 dollars for a patio set that has no cushions. Had I known that the quality of this product was going to be so bad, I would have shopped elsewhere. This is a big blow to my faith in the Martha Stewart line.

Like so many others, our Martha Stewart Victoria Patio Set sold by K Mart glass table top mysteriously shattered into pieces. No one has been of any help in providing information on replacement glasstops, etc.

Martha Stewart Patio furniture is falling apart with rust and fading. We purchased a Martha Stewart complete seven piece patio set plus umbrella and chaise lounges from Kmart. After one winter, the cushions are terribly faded and the metal rusted. We went back to the Kmart in Pineville, North Carolina and there was absolutely nothing they could do for us. This is a crime and Martha ought to be sent back to where she was just released for fraudulant merchandising.

1 1/2 year old patio table glass shattered for no reason and chairs are rusting. The cost of the patio set - $450.00. I would like to be included in the Class Action Suit that has been filed regarding this consumer complaint.

The Martha Stewart patio set shattered for no reason. I have five perfectly good chairs and no useable table.

My wife & I invested money I had earned while overseas at war, and we saved our coins to buy a new set of patio furniture from Martha. We invested in a 4 chair/table glass set & also the rather pricey canopy. We have had the set out in summer and in for fall & within the first year have rust on all chairs where they are welded. Also, the center hole in the glass table has a plastic ring and the mold that has gathered under it is horrible from it getting wet underneath.

We purchased the Martha Stewart Victorian collection for our deck in March 02 and after 1 year the cushions were badly faded and the paint was chipping off the chairs. I thought it was a good set because of how much it cost. I tryed to overlook the ovious and decided to just replace the cushions and unbrella and to my surprise I was not able to. The nice people at k-mart told me good luck trying to replace them and suggested I purchase another set. If any one out there has a brain do not buy martha stewart products, she does not stand behind them.

We purchased a martha stewart patio set from Kmart. Our first glass tabletop shattered into a million pieces just moments after my son and I came inside from playing on the patio where the table is located. We replaced the table figuring it had to be a freak accident. This evening, our second tabletop shattered without reason, again all over the patio. In addition to this dangerous occurance, after a month this set started chipping and rusting. We contacted the manufacturer who did send paint to apply in spots to the rust - but there should have been no reason for the rust in the first place after such a short time. BEWARE!

On October 31, 2005, the glass top of our Martha Stewart Outdoor living patio table shattered for no reason. It burst into a thousand pieces. Our two dogs were in the backyard but don't appear to have been injured.

Purchased Patio/outdoor furniture by Martha Stewart. The large table top shattered into hundreds of pieces. Is there a recall to replace such table tops or what other course of action can I take to have the table top replaced by the Martha Stewart company. Would like to have the table replaced with a better table top glass.

I purchased the Martha Stewart Victoria style patio table with the lazy susan in the center, along with 5 cloth chairs. Additionally, I purchased the love seat and coffee table to match. They looked beautiful for the first 6 months. They were placed under our covered and dry at all times patio in California. Looked beautiful until the cloth on the seats started to dry, crack, and tear. They are now not useable with the stuffing poking out.

We bought a Martha Stewart patio set aprox 3 years ago. The Montecito 6 person table and chair set and the table top just shattered into a million pieces for no apparent reason. No one was physically injured but the set cost us aprox $400.00

We bought in late summer of 2003 the Martha Stewart Victoria Patio set. Glass table, 6 chairs, umbrella, stand and glider. And all the cushions to match. We stored the complete in our walkout basement for the winter. Last spring the table top shattered, Kmart would not replace saying too long from purchase -- bought a new table.

Last spring I purchased Martha Stewart outdoor patio furniture. It was well cared for (dry storage over winter) and received normal use. The glass tabletop shattered suddenly one sunny afternoon for no apparent reason. Fortunately nobody was nearby, but it shattered into thousands of tiny pieces. I contacted K-mart who told me it was no longer under warranty and wasn't much help. Also of note are the chair frames which are starting to rust. This was not an inexpensive purchase - I am very disappointed with the quality.