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Colorful Front Porch Redo for Free!
by
Jennifer
(IC: homeowner)
7 Materials
Hellooo Hometalkers!
How is everyone doin' , I'm doin' great now that I have redone my porch!!
I mean to tell ya I have been in need of color, energizing, make you smile color!
The inside of my house is 50 shades of brown, you know all that neutral color.
My kitchen is black, white, gray and steel with two specks of color, a red coffee maker and a beautiful iridescent bowl I just love. Then the living area is brown/beige couch with a spicy brown mustard colored recliner, all wood tables and bookcases, even the curtains are chocolate colored ( some other earth tones are there but not much). Then onto our bedroom which is black, gray, blue and silver ( the most color in the house). My house is so dull and boring ! My better half freaked out on me when I told him I was going to paint accent walls around the house and add some other colors to rooms (he hates change, I embrace it) and nothing was done. That was a couple of years ago and I still want some color! Well this year I decided I was getting some color, somewhere, somehow and the porch sure needed that and more but I would be working with "0" money! This is what I did...
I started with 3 wood pallets. One of them was in such bad shape I just cut off the good pieces and saved them. The other two (above) had some broken pieces too but nowhere near as bad and I would need to cut some of it off anyway to make shelves.
The pallets were free so I wasn't going to turn down free wood! The top pieces are from an old bed frame, along with a piece of solid wood to fit as a counter top. Those pieces are for my wood pile.
This will be the front.
This is the back with shelves. I also cut off the wood overlap for a cleaner look.
I used the overlap cutoff pieces for bracing the shelves. I drilled holes first so as not to split the wood before screwing in the braces.
The front with the shelves in place. I also used some of the cutoff pieces for holding both pallets together. Now painting, my fav part of any project I do!
All painted. I might do a little bit of tweaking late on. See that ugly, not even white anymore, chair... that will get fixed too!
I still need more color and something on the walls too! I have several frames of sorts and they are very easy to paint.
So far I have not spent any money. The small jars of paint were giving to me ( I think about 30 sample jars) and the spray paint was leftovers from other projects.
I used a purple, pink and red colors and waxed with a candle between the different coats of paint.
I topped it off with a green color let it dry overnight then lightly sanded it so the other colors would come through just a bit.
I did the same with this one but used two blues and a green. Matte finish on both
I also had some terra cotta candle holders I made years ago. All I did was paint and add some dots.
Here's another one with a lavender plant. More color!
I added another window frame in yellow, painted a wood side table and that ugly "not even white anymore" chair! I made two cushions out of some old placemats I had, they have tropical foliage on them ( green and blue colors).
I did all of this in about 4 days.Nothing was hard to do or make, I probably could have done it in three days but I was being lazy!
This is the other side of the porch with my red, white and blue americana things I've made. I could not get a good picture of my whole porch so I kind of halfed it up!
I'm still tweaking some stuff, like another candle holder ( you can see it on the end of my lounger) white with different colored polka dots, a few plant pots need some color, I have some lights I will be hanging up ( I'm making those out of string lights in different colors, glass jars and copper wire) and an old rug I will paint with some sort of design on it !!! I spent ZILCH on this fix up, just time and energy, WOOT WOOT !!!! It looks like I will be having a colorful day everyday!
Thanks for looking and I hope I didn't blind anyone with all this color! Would love to hear what ya'll think! The good, the bad and the ugly and any suggestions on more color.
Oh yeah what about yellow/gold netting for privacy curtains? I have a lot of it.out people!
I posted the rest of the project under Colorful front porch redo for free continued!
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Published May 4th, 2017 7:27 PM
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Marc Erick on Aug 27, 2018
Oooooo... I absolutely love it! 😊 definitely need to do something like that to my porch! And now, with your inspiration, I will! 🖒💜
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Maude LaFountain on Aug 28, 2018
I love the Pallet Table the best ,....I will be on the lookout for some pallets now ....Thanks for posting ....you did an Awesome Job !!!!
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Great job! I'm jealous though, where did you get all that paint for free!?