More Chairs to Spruce Up!

After I finished the easy chairs, I was very anxious to get started on these bigger rocking ones. I love the chairs, but they look so awful with all that rust and pealing paint. To prep them, I cleaned them up and chipped off the pealing paint, that's it. No primer this time.

I also loved the blue color I used for the other ones, but I thought it would be too much of the same so I picked a color that matches our umbrella on our patio away from the pool. It's a deep read color. This is the color I choose, it's called, Colonial Red. If you want it, just click on the color and there is a link to amazon for it.

The color looked a little overwhelming when it was all over the plastic too! But once I put it by the pool, I absolutely loved it. These chairs took a lot more paint and were more of a pain to get in all the hard to reach spot, but overall, it was still a very simple job to do.

I may even like it better then the turquoise, it's actually appropriately called, Seaside and you can get that color by clicking here.

But, I don't think it would have looked as good without the seaside chairs.

I think this color really complements everything around the pool, the pictures don't really do it justice. Plus the yard is a little sad in these pictures after the dog napped on top of the bushes.

Sprucing up some chairs

I had these old chairs around my pool. They were functional, but not very pretty. So, I decided to spruce them up a bit. 

I had to wash them off and since it is almost 100 degrees out, I didn't have to do much work on drying them. I did have to knock off some chipped paint also.

L and I primered the chairs and little table first.

Since I love pops of color and we have a pool with turquoise water, I decided to go with "seaside" for the chairs. If you want the color for yourself, you can click the color name or click here.

I love how they turned out. Nice and bright and clean!

 

The old chairs blended in so much that I forgot I had 4! I just noticed the other 2 in my yard this morning and quickly painted one more. I need to go get more primer for the other one.

I left the table white for a little contrast. (Again, you can click the color for the exact paint) They also have it at any home improvement store in the white. In the end, I ended up using painting 3 chairs and a table, I used 3 cans of primer, 1 can of white, and 3 cans of seaside. I have some seaside and white left over.

I have 4 other metal chairs that are bigger and rock. I am thinking a different color for those. Maybe a rusty red to tie in the pavers on the patio outside the pool. Feel free to let me know what you think for a good color to add!