Front Porch Chairs Makeover

This was supposed to be a quick and easy DIY, but it ended up taking me close to nine months to complete. My parents snagged these for me from a neighbor that was moving. Beige is not my thing and I knew a quick layer of spray paint would bring new life to them.

After cleaning the chairs, I started out with this blue spray paint... and I was not a fan. I used 4 whole cans (!!!) and barely covered these two chairs. I put them on the porch anyways and figured I could finish them when I got a chance to go back to the store. You can even spot them in my last exterior update.

After using the chairs for a bit, we'd find chalky residue from the chairs on our clothes and they were basically unusable. By the time I got back to taking care of the chairs, I decided I was over the blue color and I wanted to try out green in different spray paint.

I used less than 3 cans and it took me about 15 minutes for both chairs.  It isn't super fancy, but we have already found ourselves hanging out on the front porch way more often than we did before. We love having snacks on the porch as we people watch and I love how much a simple DIY can impact our day-to-day life.

House Exterior : Taking Off the Awnings

We've been working hard lately to make the exterior of the house a little bit more attractive. See where we left off here. We got some loppers and cut down hella weeds from the front 'garden' and did my best to clear out what I could.  Ben has been slowly taking off some of the extra stuff on the house that isn't our style. He took off the screened in porch in one evening then the porch awnings and side door awning the next day.

It is surprising to me to see how much more open this seems so far.  I walk out onto the porch and it feels so much brighter and airier without all of the extra stuff blocking the view. Now that it's cleaned up a little bit, it's much more inviting to hang out there.

Our previous house numbers were covered up by the ridiculous amount of weeds and we knew we wanted to replace it at some point anyways. I knew I wanted to do something on the house and somehow incorporate wood. I checked out my salvaged wood stash and found the perfect piece. I oiled it a little bit and it looked so much better already. I measured and taped off some rectangles for the numbers. In hindsight, I should have accounted for the spacing of the numbers, but I would love to go over it another time with white paint to try to correct the spacing issue.

We still need to take off the remaining awnings, but progress is progress!

TO DO:
+ remove the remaining awnings

+ replace the mailbox

+ repaint the porch/steps

+ rescreen all of the screens

+ more defined garden beds in the front 

+ Down the road, we'd love to paint the house and get the steps, path, and driveway/retainer wall redone