The Little Brown House

Blue And Brown Patio Redo-

Hi! Welcome to The little brown house!

This week I want to show you a couple of things I did to update

our back patio. It started when I got the Pottery Barn catalog, and

realized I would have to get a 2nd (3rd) mortgage to get everything I wanted!

I saw these copper chargers, and really wished I had something like them.

I have a dozen gold chargers that I got at an after Christmas sale one year for $1 apiece.

I decided to take some ORB (oil rubbed bronze) to a couple of them.

Yeah that’s pretty gold huh!

Anyway – I sprayed it and set it out to dry while I sprayed another one -

Then all of a sudden the can of paint went postal on me.

Nice nails don’t you think?   – It just spit paint all over the charger, big globs of it.

And obviously also all over my hand!

Now – Quick Topic Change-

A week ago my daughter called and told me she had seen some outdoor chairs

at the thrift store by my office. They were out in the back of the store and had just

been donated. She thought I might like them. She was right….

There were 4 of them – and I really liked the color.

I got them for $4 apiece.

I already had patio furniture that was brown, so I decided I needed to see if I could

find something that would tie the blue and brown together.

I went looking for outdoor chair pads, and there was no summer stuff

left in our town! There was, however, an abundant stock of school supplies..

which was not helpful.. but I was able to find

some pillow shams in the home section that did the trick!

I decided to put them over some old chair pads I had -

What do you think?

Now back to the charger redo!

Gotta love that ORB – when it works right anyway! With the sun shining right

on it, it even looks a little coppery!

I really like it! And yes, there is still gold around the edge – I kind of liked that too!

I bought some more ORB but haven’t had time to do more chargers

So here is my photo shoot of the patio with just one place setting out there-

But it would be a nice soothing lunch spot for one, and sometimes that is just what I need!

That is my favorite water bottle in the shot – I just thought it matched so well I should include it!

And this is the charger that the ORB went crazy on -

And sitting on it is one of my Blue Bottle Jar expeirments

You can check that out here:

Blue Bottle Jar

We are still adding more of the gray bricks to the patio to expand it. Well, I should

say my husband, not we.. although I can always be counted on to sit back with

my ice tea and watch him use his muscles!! I am really helpful like that!

So with some paint and fabric and a couple of thrift store items,

I freshened up a whole area for hardly any money. Oh, and the woven placemats

are from the dollar store!

Hope you liked it – And thanks so much for stopping by!

Come back on Tuesday when I will do a gluten-free sweet treat recipe, I promise loads more exclamation points!!

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