A couple of years ago, I bought a set of wooden garden chairs as extra seating for a girlie BBQ I was hosting. They were pretty cheap at the time, I think around £35 for the pair, and I quite liked them!
However, three years on, they’re looking a little worse for wear. I’ve tried to take quite good care of them and would usually apply an application of teak oil every year just before Autumn to protect the wood. But since moving to our new house, these chairs have become a little neglected – oops!
Not only do they look kind of grotty, but they’re also falling apart, literally. The slats on the seat have all popped out, the screws have become seriously loose, and these chairs have regretfully become a health and safety disaster waiting to happen.
With the sunshine out over the last week, I decided it was the perfect time to sort out these chair wrecks. I nailed the chairs back in to place with around one or two bazillion nails, added a whole heap of gorilla glue along with it and then gave the chairs a good sand down, ready for a coat of paint.
For the paint, I’m using Cuprinol’s ‘Natural Stone’ which is a kind of really light taupe-y white kind of colour – not quite white, not quite grey. That in-between-y colour. You know what I mean right?
Four coats and entire day later:
And now they’re looking brand new again! Sort-of – as long as you don’t look too carefully at those bazillion nails. But most importantly they’re sturdy again, and useable! What more can you ask for from a chair?
They’ve also brightened up the garden immensely, and they go pretty well with the border at the back of the garden. It will be MOST lovely to have somewhere to sit and eat copious amounts of ice cream throughout the coming summer months! Another job ticked off the to-do list!
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