![]() We also get to remember those we loved while we enjoy the sunshine and sweet smell of our rose garden, just a few feet away. I’m so excited to create new memories with our family on the porch. I can’t even tell you how much I love our new/old patio set. When the tape was gone and the drop cloths were put away…this is what we were left with… Once the furniture had literally baked in the hot, southern sun for a day, we felt confident enough that it was okay to remove the tape. ![]() Not pretty!!īut look how pretty everything was starting to look with a fresh coat of paint! After several hours and six cans of Rust-Oleum’s Turquoise spray paint….he came inside our house and looked like someone had cooked him in a frying pan and drowned him in vegetable oil. My husband is saint! He went outside on an early Saturday morning, where the temperature had already reached 90 degrees, put on a respirator mask and goggles and repainted the glider and matching chair. DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT select a day that is almost 100 degrees with almost 100% humidity to do your outdoor, home improvement project. You don’t want to go sloppy on this part of the project…because when the furniture is painted and the tape is pulled off, what you see is what you get! This is the tedious part of the project…and we actually enlisted the help of our 14 year old son for this job. applied a generous coat of white enamel gloss to any of the areas on the glider and chair that had the basket weaving…so we would end up with a cool, two tone look.Īfter the painted basket weave pattern had dried, we taped off all of the areas that we did NOT want to be turqouise. This is supposed to help stop the rusting process…only time will tell how well it really works! Next we applied a healthy coat of Rust-Oleum’s Rust Reformer to any areas that had a lot of dark rust spots. used to be a painting contractor…so I knew they were in good hands! Here were a few images off of Pinterest that we used to point us in the right direction:īefore we applied any new color, we had to sand, sand, scrape and sand them some more to get any rusty paint flakes to come up. Then we spent a lot of time in the spray paint isle of Home Depot debating over what color to use. and I combed the web for days, looking at a million different color combinations for inspiration. So now what? What color were we going to make them? How would we do it without powder coating them? The Mr. They were in great shape, but had years of dust and dirt stuck to them. The glider and matching chair sat in a screened in porch for years and had hardly ever been used…so it needed a good cleaning and a good home.Ī few weeks had passed and the metal glider and chair finally made their way back to our house. Coincidentally, the Mr.’s father had generously offered to give us a vintage metal glider set that had once belonged to his mom (who passed away from cancer back in the fall of 2012). When this past spring rolled around, that warm, nostalgic feeling started to wash over me again. Sadly, it was given away and I never saw it again. When she passed away, I was only 18 at the time and off to college, so there was no where for the beloved metal glider to come home to. She had a large, forest green metal porch glider that I practically lived on during those days…rocking back and forth, curling up agains Grandma’s lap and sometimes falling asleep. ![]() I would spend weeks at her home in Pennsylvania in the summertime when school let out…hanging out with my cousins, drinking ice cold Coca-Cola and chasing fireflies with mason jars in the back yard. Growing up, one of my favorite places to hang out was my grandmother’s covered brick porch at her 1950’s brick ranch home. It’s a place where memories are made with family and friends. It’s where silly and serious conversations take place, where I can sit and enjoy the view of my beautiful garden and where my children play. My front porch is probably my favorite place in the world. When the bees are out and the blooms start to open, it’s definitely time to grab your sweet tea and head to our front porch for some seriously lazy hang-time.
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