This works because most of my rooms have complementary colors so they will work in any room - and because my house is "Primitive Country" which basically means whatever I can pick out of the trash, clean up and reuse - works for me!
With summer here, we've been eating out back on our porch most nights. As we sat there we all were saying how nice it would be to have a ceiling fan out there. Well, two trips to Lowes and 3 hours later our dream became a reality!
Now the back porch is like another room, and a room needs to be decorated. I started by putting a table cloth on the nasty picnic table. Next I potted a flat of basil and marigolds I had bought from the school next store to ours (their students planted and grew them from seed and then stood outside and sold them! - love it!)
I brought out 2 tables from inside and set to "accessorizing" them. Like I said, I pulled from the house to make it work! I also decided it would be nice to have utensils and napkins outside so I put them inside a big jar I use for punch at parites, but sits in my closet all the other days of the year.
I finished with a few accessories, such as a ladder, rubber boots, an outdoor clock and an old rusty star.
Outdoor room complete and best of all - it cost me nothing but the cost of the fan (and installation - still waiting for Cam's bill to come!)
Making a usable outdoor space make Cents and Sensibility!
lovely :)
ReplyDeleteI love it. Doesn't a fan make a huge difference?
ReplyDeleteoh and P.S. on the steroids for bee stings...you can get them after sitting 2 hours in an ER in anaphalactic reaction (or get stung, give yourself an epi-pen shot, freak out cause you feel your throat closing despite the epi, call an ambulance, go to the er in the ambulance, feel like a fool all the while. then get your dose of steroids and benedryl and call it a day).
very nice...I'll be over for dinner :)
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