This summer, there are going to be a lot of outdoor projects. Call me a glutton for hot Georgia weather or just plain crazy, but for the last six years, I’ve been daydreaming hardcore about having an outdoor space to entertain in. Currently, my patio is simply too dinky to accommodate those wishes:
I’ve made some progress in both the front and back yards, such as adding my raised garden beds along the fence line. And, there are other projects, such as:
- adding a fence
- sprucing up the mailbox
- adding perennials to the garden
- making over the small patio slab in the back yard (see that above)
- taking out all (well, 5 out of 6) of the pine trees
- moving some of the other shrubs and stuff I want to keep out of Charlie’s way
- upgrading the outdoor gate with a self-adjusting latch
…and so on. But honestly, those will probably all pale in comparison to the sheer volume of what I want to do this year. I’ll get to the details in a separate future post (it might even involve some BIG machinery), but for today, I wanted to share something on the smaller side.
Even though I have future plans to build out even more of an outdoor seating area later this year, Katie’s #greatoutdoorschallenge was hard to pass up. In fact, I love these challenges (like I’ve shared here, here, here, and here) because even though I’m usually slammed for time, they always give me the motivation I need to finish something that’s been on my to do list for so long that I nearly forgot it was there. So, I set out this week that in addition to my usual crazy schedule of this crazy month, I would tack on a simple goal to add a few more seats to the current (small and unimpressive) patio. I bought my supplies, made some cuts, analyzed stain choices, and…
Well, look-at-that: I’m not quite finished yet (cue sad trombone). In fact, if you’re still reading this sentence, it means that I’m probably waiting on the glue to dry just a little more before I can share the pictures with you (but oh man, the smell of that cedar!). All of this, of course, will change by the end of the day (I tend to post more in the afternoons these days), but since these challenge-y things are coordinated with multiple bloggers across multiple sites, my unending time optimism would mean that these other folks would have a dead link on their post while they waited on mine (in blogspeak, that’s just not a super desirable thing). So instead, I’m going to first share the list of those coordinating their participation in this challenge, and you can get your DIY eyeballs full of other outdoor project ideas. Then, come back here later today, and you can see my own DIY twist on a popular tutorial that I customized for my tiny patio (which I’m designing to then also work for a larger one later this year).
The Ugly Duckling House (duh, that’s me!)
You can also upload your own outdoor projects on the blog hop below if you want to participate yourself (that’s kind of half the fun). I know lots of you are probably going to be working on a few projects this summer too, so here’s a great chance to fill that to do list or that Pinterest board we all know you have at least the intent to start on — hell, you know I’m in no position to judge! If you can’t see it in your email or reader, click over to my post and link up there. And don’t forget to come back here later this afternoon/evening to see what I created, too!
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