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Outdoor Oasis Under $200
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Jennifer Terry- Calm and Collected
(IC: blogger)
Several weeks ago my friend Maggie posted a photo of her front porch on Facebook. I could NOT stop thinking about it! She wrote “And just like that, the best room in the house is once again open. Lemonade, good books, cocktails, and sweet dreams all happen on the porch!” Look what she did. It’s so simple and relaxed:
I begged her to be a guest blogger here and share what she did, but I couldn’t persuade her. So I copied her (in theory) and will write about it myself! LOL!
The curtains? That was easy! I found sheers at IKEA for $3.99 a pair!!! Our porch has a very high ceiling, so I was worried about finding something long enough. These are 98″ and I figured we could always cheat them down a little. The sheers are 100% polyester, so they should last outdoors for a few summers. Not a bad $8 investment! We own property elsewhere that is loaded with bamboo, so we got a few long stalks of that to use as curtain rods= free!
Then we discovered the power washer!!! Oh, what fun that was! We had never used a power washer before. We borrowed it from my mom and everyone wanted a turn. I wanted to get the dirt off the floor and take some of the gunk off the swing. Wow! The swing went back to it’s original wood tone.
Next, I needed chairs. I decided to take an old, old one from my bedroom and make it an outdoor chair. (At least for the summer on the covered porch.) Then driving home from work, I noticed a neighbor had a chair out on the curb. It looked like an office chair that had been left in the rain so long, the finish wore off the wood and the fabric was a very dirty blue. I transformed them both, but we’ll talk about that in an upcoming post.
Other projects like how I redid the chairs and how I made the outdoor art will be posted on my blog soon.
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Published June 27th, 2015 2:46 PM
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Michele Brown Hirsch on Aug 09, 2016Very relaxing place to come home to.
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