Garden furniture project.

Yesterday was quite a succesful day with the garden table, although I didn't start until after lunch. I managed to sand the underside of the table, I must confess I wasn't too keen on my new ryobi sander the night before - but with a fully charged battery pack it was pretty good. Thankfully the weather dried so it wasn't too cold out in the garage.


2 coats of primer and the first coat of the coloured wood gloss went on, I must say wood gloss is a nightmare to paint with, so thick and sticky. I was quite pleased that the table legs were removable, as that meant that I was able to sand the table legs inside while watching a bit of tv :) Unfourtunatly the ends needed doing by hand. Today was mainly spent finishing off the table legs- thankfully with the sander! Adding the first coat of primer and the second coat of coloured gloss to the table. I am pleased with the results, even if the colour is a little darker than I had in mind. But for £1.50 I can't complain (paint that was on sale due to the colour made was not the correct colour for a client) I am quite pleased with the work done so far, but I am not looking forward to starting on the chairs!! Thankfully this evening I found out that there is company that strips paint of furniture- fingers crossed they will do the chairs!

My half term DIY project

Every year at the start at the summer and at the end in the sales, my husband and I are always trying to find some garden furniture that is at an affordable price and something that is strong enough. We usually fail every year as most sets are quite expensive and not to our tastes. We have both lived in the country when we are children and would like to have a rustic country table for our garden furniture. So with a decision made we now had to hunt for the perfect table, a hardwood table would be ideal but expensive. So a pine table was what we needed. I wanted to sand and varnish it myself rather than buy one, eventually I found the perfect 6ft table and 4 chairs in a charity furniture shop (shown in the photo).

With the children off to their grandparents for half term, my challenge this week is to sand and paint the table and chairs. Today didn't start too well with the rain  which resulted in the garage being cleaned up, space made and the furniture put into the garage so at least I can make a start this week.

With the battery for my new sander (which I had for mothers day) on charge then a trip to a DIY store for sand paper tomorrow should be a productive day.