Our pick of the best garden furniture sets for small gardens and large spaces. Featuring pieces from John Lewis, Asda, Made.com and Habitat.
I don’t know if somebody else has already shared this or not...but I went to sit outside today and the chair was just gross looking! I started to clean it, and…
Mit dem passenden Interieur können auch kleine Balkone zu Ihrem Lieblingsplatz des Sommers werden. Wir zeigen Ihnen unterschiedliche Einrichtungslösungen für kleine Balkone – für das morgendliche Frühstück oder den entspannten Leseabend unter freiem Himme
Creating an outdoor patio that's both stylish and comfortable has become one of my favorite design adventures.
While demand for outdoor rooms is booming, HGTV.com shows you how to present such a project to customers.
Creating an outdoor patio that's both stylish and comfortable has become one of my favorite design adventures.
Do you want a cute cottage garden? I found a lot of beautiful cottage garden ideas on Pinterest that will inspire you.
An outdoor pergola hanging daybed is the perfect addition to any backyard or garden space. It is a great way to create a cozy and relaxing outdoor retreat where you can enjoy the fresh air, sunshine, and beautiful scenery. With its unique design and functionality, a hanging daybed can serve as a ver
A blog about life, love, and completely gutting and renovating an old and outdated home.
An outdoor furniture glider is ideal for any porch, deck, or patio. Versatile, gliders are easy to move, provide more stability than a porch swing, and come in a wide variety of styles, colors, and materials.
Creating an outdoor patio that's both stylish and comfortable has become one of my favorite design adventures.
This cute, easy to make, and fun bunny blanket is a perfect way to stay warm on a cold winter day! This amazing and practical blanket is a perfect project.
On a smaller scale, a piece of outdoor furniture can act as a place for you and your guests to sit or even for you to enjoy a nice cold beverage on a hot summer day.
Ever wanted to build a greenhouse? Here is a list of the best (and free!) greenhouse plans to help you build the greenhouse of your dreams.
I've held onto a few pieces of decent-quality white plastic patio furniture for years, because it felt wasteful to chuck them when they were still perfectly serviceable. Every year, I'd notice that they looked dingier and more disgusting, and every year I'd say, "This year I'll replace those pieces." I'm so glad I didn't! They look brand new now! Here's how. Scrubbed, but never PRETTY. Earlier this summer, I was amazed by a blog post at one of my favorite blogs (In My Own Style) about cleaning outdoor furniture (http://inmyownstyle.com/2012/05/cleaning-outdoor-decks-and-patios-in-style.html). Diane showed how using Tilex or Clorox outdoor cleaning products took those white plastic chairs from gray to grand (alliteration!) I have scrubbed outdoor furniture with all manner of products and was never satisfied with the gray left behind. After reading Diane's post, I gave it a try (and as you can read in her comments section, I found a shortcut.) Friday, I did it again, with equally successful results. Now, please don't judge. I was not intending to do a blog post about scrubbing this chair, but halfway through, I was so excited by the results that I couldn't bear NOT to share it with you, so I dropped everything, ran inside, grabbed the camera, and took a few shots, including my first ever video (which I intended to do without audio, then ever-so-tentatively, decided to say a few words, and now I wish I could do it again, so please bear with me and be kind.) (I don't normally write in sentence fragments, nor do I normally write run-ons. Sorry.) Here's the trick: Steel wool and bleach water. The gray wipes right off. Scrubbing...actually, it's more like wiping. Not a lot of effort involved. Here's the video; it's short, I promise: And here's an "after" shot of the chair half-way scrubbed. Amazing, don't you agree? The bowl on the chair is our small cleaning bucket (Here's an aside: It's our puke bucket, too. When I was little and had to be sick, I was offered either the toilet or a garbage can. The garbage cans were never what one could call clean so it made being sick an even worse experience. This blue bowl was handy one day years ago when one of us was sick; it's been the puke bucket ever since. My kids were horrified the day they came home and Grammy had made a salad for dinner in the bowl; luckily their manners and instinct told them to not make a fuss. Ever since, the bowl has not lived in the cupboard with the rest of the bowls but instead under the sink with its good friend scrub brush, and it hasn't made a food reappearance since! Grammy was understandably confused about why we were a little disconcerted about the salad, but after thinking it over, commented that a puke bowl seems much nicer than a trash can. I agree.) Here are the materials you need for your amazing chair transformation: household bleach (a glug into a medium sized bowl of water), about 6 pads of steel wool (I had this on hand in my furniture refinishing supplies. If you've never used steel wool, you can buy it in the painting/staining section; it's inexpensive and comes in a large package.) Finally, you'll want rubber gloves - because of the steel wool and the bleach. (If you plan ahead, you can put a thick cream on your hands before beginning; the heat inside the gloves makes the lotion sink deep into your skin. Lovely.) Here is one of the chairs I did the day I read Diane's post about cleaning outdoor furniture. Supplies on another plastic piece of furniture that I spray painted because I thought it would always be GRAY. Here's the end result (with apologies for the bad photo quality. As we say in Oklahoma, it was fixin' to rain and was overcast, and I wasn't complaining!) The whole chair (underneath, back, legs, and all) took less than 45 minutes, and that was with stopping to do a mini-photo-shoot. Now, for some of you, it's already the end of summer, so you'll be putting your patio furniture up for the season, but for those of us who live where summer lingers (I think "Oklahoma" is an old Indian word for "Land Where it is Ungodly Hot for Far Too Many Months Each Year") it's only now cool enough to actually go out and tackle a project like this. (It's 96 degrees here today, for example.) Whether you clean them soon or next spring, easy supplies and minimal effort can make your furniture live again to see another season? Better than throwing it away, right? And now for a cold beverage in my clean chair...ahhhhh.
The Whimsigothic aesthetic is a combination of whimsical modern colors and ornate gothic details. Here's how you can incorporate it in your home decor.
Creating an outdoor patio that's both stylish and comfortable has become one of my favorite design adventures.
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Enjoy this selection of beautiful sun rooms to brighten these rainy spring days. You'll find a variety of styles and decor.
