Courtyard Planters and French Daybed

Sprucing up the courtyard after the long winter has been underway for several weeks.

 A fresh coat of black paint was needed for a few scuff marks on the French doors,

and I decided to paint the iron urns, as they have been in their original rust

form ever since I got them.

 One on the left just painted, the one on the right still in ancient rust finish.

I was loving the look of the fresh black paint!

Valspar Duramax in Kettle Black was what I used for both the wooden doors and the iron urns. 

It is made for the outdoors and it was really nice to work with. (Not a sponsored post)

Look at how nice everything looked with a fresh coat of paint!

Pretty Piper and Sylvia posed for my Memorial Day flag Instagram post here.

 After trying to install a greenhouse in the courtyard and enduring an epic fail,

I was left with the wood landscape timber platform that was supposed to be the 

base for the greenhouse.  

The platform built for the briefly existing greenhouse....

Because it was chintzy and the wind took it away!!
Anyway,  instead of ripping it apart and removing all the stone,

the solution was to turn it into a destination spot~

 a raised platform for the French daybed and a pair of bistro chairs.

In the meantime the vegetable garden is underway up above in front of

the garden shed and I have to figure out how to get the water up there

in a more attractive manner.  In the meantime the new courtyard layout

is actually pretty nice, and we can have a number of people and still 

be able to practice social distancing easily!

The daybed  is decorated in a French bohemian style.

A mosaic birdhouse in pink adorns the ironwork.

We really enjoy gathering outdoors, and the weather has finally turned for 

the better.  This courtyard is really an entertaining solution right now

during this Covid 19 pandemic.  It hasn't been easy to isolate,

and we are looking forward to seeing loved ones in a safe way out here

during the summer months ahead.

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Spraying my Patio Furniture Pink

Think PINK!

Pink Patio Furniture!

 Pink is really "in" right now for home decor.

It turned out to be very charming and whimsical in pink.

This set is a vintage wire furniture set called Peacock style and 

it is from the 1970s.  It was in its original white ( with now rust)

finish when hubs found it for me, and it was time to freshen it up.

 Not the easiest thing to paint, but that didn't stop me.

And hubs helped by scraping the table down, as that was covered in flaking

and peeling paint. 

I used cans of Rustoleum Candy Pink, a new color.

It took about two cans per chair, and at least two cans for the table.

 I laid a plastic drop cloth over the rock wall in the yard and on the ground and 

painted the chairs front and back and upside down. This paint takes a while to dry,

and being impatient, I just grabbed the tacky/wet chairs and turned their position to 

keep on painting and get the job finished. I did one coat the first day, and then the second 

day I painted them again to get any spots I missed and a second coat over most of it,

with pretty good results. 

 However, even though I shook the paint can for the recommended time it would spray

out various shades of pink.  At first I was freaked but then though, hey this is pretty cool!

It has an ombre look overall, in a subtle way that is appealing to me.

A tremendous amount of the paint goes right through all the wire
design and onto the drop cloth. There is no way around that...

 One thing you must do is to buy this handle by Rustoleum.

It attaches to the spray nozzle of the can and then you 
can spray for hours without any hand cramping or finger paralysis. 

 This is pretty much completed....

now on to making pink Sunbrella cushions for 

my Martha Stewart outdoor wicker set.  Yup. You heard me right.

One last thing....while I was at Lowes buying the paint
I saw Country Home magazine on the rack! This is the issue
that features my home, so don't miss it!!

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