A Little Deck Makeover

Believe it or not I’ve still got a bunch of things to show you from when we did all of that yardwork back in May.  I showed you the front porch and my $25 back door makeover so now I’m gonna show you the little deck outside of the kitchen.

We added this deck on a few years ago.  There was a great big tree there that we need for shading the kitchen windows, so we just built the deck right around it.  I never really did much out there since there’s a huge tree right in the middle of it.  You can’t put a table or a big seating arrangement, so the kids just sat out there on the floor eating their lunch.

When we added the pool deck we just built a bridge between the little kitchen deck and the pool deck so we really didn’t need seating on the kitchen deck anymore. It just stayed empty.  And you know I can’t stand an empty spot.

While we were doing all of the work on the back yard I decided we needed to fix up the little kitchen deck, but I didn’t want to spend any money on it.  I gave myself $25 and decided to see what I could do.

The girls and I went to the Habitat Restore (actually, we hit about 8 thrift stores before Habitat) and found some old chairs for $3 each.  I knew that would be a good jumping off point.  A couple of chairs is about all that would fit on the deck considering the tree in the middle of it.

Obviously they’re not the best chairs in town, but I thought I could make it work.  I’ll show you the chair transformation details in another post, but for now…..voila!

It’s a sweet little spot where 2 people can sit and have a private conversation.

I like having a spot where I can sit with James or one of the kids and talk….just the 2 of us.

Once the chairs were done I decided to add an old ladder to the other side of the deck.  We found some boards to lay across the rungs and made shelves.  The big bucket (which I also found at the Habitat restore) hold the boys’ outdoor toys.

From the pool deck looking down the bridge I can see that it still needs some spicing up.

A rug would be really cute.

And maybe a few pillows on the bench.  Wouldn’t that be dreamy?  I especially love these….polka dots make me swoon.

But for now I’m really happy with my little deck makeover.

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