With last weekend being a three day one it was the perfect opportunity to get stuck in and start giving two areas of our garden a spruce up and a mini makeover. These two areas are the bottom patio (where the big goldfish pond is) and jungle veranda.
Despite being only classed as 'mini makeovers', they'll still take quite a bit of time to complete. So no finished product and after shots on this post, but rather just glimpses of what we have done so far, up to the point where we packed up on Monday evening.
Basically, lots of painting was done!
Starting with the bottom patio. With the weather predicted to be good on the Saturday, mixed on Sunday, and a washout on Monday, the bottom patio had to take priority for a spruce up.
In its messy splendour before we began the work
Having had a brown and beige tone to the area ever since we created it, we decided to say goodbye to their predominance and introduce more color.
When I first mentioned about changing the color of the pond, the first and instant suggestion of Gaz was purple. So purple it was...
By Saturday night, it was fully painted...
This is just the beginning. More color will be added, one way or the other. Like orange perhaps?
The garden furniture on the bottom patio will get some color treatment too, starting with the chairs upcycled by being painted bright orange. Not an easy feat on old furniture that was varnished dark brown. It will take four coats and a good few hours to achieve the bright orange color on them.
Two more coats to go!
True to the weather prediction, it started to look iffy by Sunday noon and rain seemed imminent. So work had to be shifted where we'll be under cover. So jungle veranda it was! As you can see we have started painting the chairs above in the veranda. But then again the veranda itself is due a spruce up.Starting with a sweep and some decluttering. Plants were taken out to be washed and freshened up by the rain, and some items we had to let go and say goodbye.
A fine mess. You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs first after all...
Broken and mouldy frames, bye bye!
Bye bye tables and few accessories! Although Twinkles seems to want to hang on to them.
The cats of course wanted to hang out with us, most especially Cotton...
With lots of sleeping in between 'helping'...
We want the veranda to be less brown this time around. And it starts with the furniture. Did I say we've done a lot of painting last weekend? Oh yes!
Lots more left to do from this point but we'll post more updates as we get more done along the way!
Mark :-)
