Patio Wicker Furniture Makeover

Today I'm sharing our "new to us" patio

 Craiglist vintage wicker furniture.

We bought a love seat & two matching chairs.

They were a great price, but needed some love!

"BEFORE" PIC

Here it is "staged" because it had been too humid & hot to paint.

We waited for a break in weather before fixing.....
yet wanted needed had to use it!

So here it is in all its befugly glory!
"Befugly" is my new made up word.
It means ugly, before it is made beautiful.

~~~Befugly and Afteriful~~~

Ya stayin' with me so far, gang?

Ahem.

OK, we were discussing furniture, yes?

I have absolutely no idea why I put that piece of old driftwood inside the table like that.
Please just ignore it when I do crazy things like that. Just pretend you don't notice.

Kinda like when you pretend you don't notice that there is a confusion in stripes in pillows going on in my little zen world?

Behold: a better way to spray paint!

Use an air compressor!

Gives a powerful, cleaner and much more controlled spray.

One may use liquid paint of any kind- giving one a frugal custom painting ability for a fraction of the cost of spray paint!

(Not even taking into account how much using those aerosal cans hurt fingers, paint getting all over the place and giving you little coverage for a spending a whole lotta dough.....then there's the Oxzone thing, and well the list is long enough to get my point here.)

Bright purple sprayer For The Win!

Here is my wonderful and DH managing
the spraying process around here.

He never complains when asked to spray paint

and it seems as though I always have something

I wish to have painted.

Thanks, hon!

(He's a keeper, this one.)

First coat: the primer.

No rolling of the eyes or giggling or feeling bad for us

 because our garage is so messy.

It gets used.

A lot.

(It is what it is.)

And it is gonna stay messy as long as we live. Here.

 

Here they are (below) all finished up- clean & fresh!

This is the room in "normal" fashion

when tea isn't in session.

On the left is a bit of the white sheer curtain pulled back
"framing" the pic. I should have stood somewhere else
to avoid it in the shot - but wanted to get the full shebang.


The potting bench we've had for years and it really gets used for gardening....
One of these days I will fill it with eye candy
 and give it its own pretty staged blog post.
But not till it cools off, it's too danged hot.




 

The new round rug is indoor/outdoor, spray washable and very soft.

The two wicker tables I've had from earlier thrifting!

I have shared them before.

 

Sunbrella pillows.

Definately worth the extra cost!

 

 

And here is one of the wicker chairs

all dressed up for a girlie tea!

 

Laura Ashley cushions x 4 - GW scored treasures! WHOO HOO!

Had them purchased, washed, dried and put out

 in the zen room fastern' you could say

 "Put the kettle on!"

 

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