Kids home from school, roses blooming, pool parties, weedy gardens, overgrown trees..... we love working on all the things outside, but it stops the progress of the interior.
Our big project so far has been the deck. Jim started by powerwashing the deck... which is how we discovered that we have a redwood deck. The first rule in redwood decks (which we then learned) is "never powerwash a redwood deck". Powerwashing raises the grain and then you have to sand it before you can stain. First of all, we didn't know it was redwood and second, we didn't know rule number 1! Our weekend project quickly turned into a week and a half project. After sanding and re-securing the floor we stained the floor, painted all the railings, stripped the top board of the deck railing and stained it.
Jim had the great idea of "carving" a horse into the floor of the landing - so, Karryn and I got creative with the Dremmel.
We decided that a lonely umbrella in the middle of the table wouldn't be enough, so we found these three matching umbrellas. They weren't tall enough to walk under so we built little bases and attached them to the railings with copper plumbing straps. I'm not sure how affective they are in giving us shade, but they look nice.
1 comment:
I think your patio looks great.
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