![]() ![]() Then, if you’re lucky a cool breeze will blow in after a nice cool rain. It’s summertime in the south so naturally sweet tea is a must, Tipsy Peach Sweet Tea if you’re adventurous! With a backdrop that I sometimes take for granted. It has all the beautiful elements of Summer. But when your outdoor view is this nice, no one can fault me for wanting to go ahead and take advantage of it.įor me this photo says it all. ![]() Not that I’m completely done with the inside.įar from it actually. So it feels nice to finally be able to start on this, the outdoor, part of my home. But it can also be difficult to put together little spaces for kids, adults, dogs, chickens, the pool and then bring them all together in a beautifully cohesive way. Having a large yard sounds wonderful in theory and it is. It comes with built in storage cubbies for magazines, books or whatever. You don’t want to go brush painting a pallet. A good paint sprayer like mine is a must. If you’re interested in exactly how we put this table together, from the beginning, I’ll be glad to put together a tutorial. * Drink dispenser and tray from WalMart, part of the Better Homes & Gardens collection. In addition to using an exterior paint, I’ve also sealed the cedar planking with Tung oil to protect it outdoors.įor now, I’ll just be enjoying it right where it’s at. It’ll soon find a home under the new pergola we start building this fall. The truth is we won’t leave it exactly where it is now, it wouldn’t be safe sitting out here in all the sunshine and rain. It’s nice to finally have a space to sit and enjoy it. We have 10 gorgeous acres and a beautiful pond. I am just so excited, after spending so much time on the outside, to finally be able to get to the outside. I am going to go ahead and apologize now for the overload of pictures you are about to experience. I am grateful that I waited though because it just wouldn’t have been the same without that cedar planking. I am kicking myself for not having done it sooner. ![]() That was it! This whole thing could be done in a weekend or less from start to finish even if you weren’t starting with a pre-built table.Īnd, you guys, I don’t know how it conveys on screen but it is stunning in person. I did have to re-secure a few pieces but this made the process quick and easy.įrom there, I added the pieces to the last row, applied some heavy objects to press everything down and hold it in place and then allowed it to dry thoroughly. I put down the wood glue and then slid the planking back in place. That way I didn’t have to take all off and start over again to get the glue down. Once I got this giant puzzle piece put together (all except the last, bottom row) I slid some long wood strips under that planking and slid all of it off the table and onto another scrap of hardie board. Luckily the pieces fit without having to rip any of the planks. So the first thing we did was lay out the scraps and get them fitted. I still have some more and my brain is wild with possibilities. This planking is gorgeous and I was so excited to get to use the scraps in some meaningful way. I just recently finished up an amazing guy’s closet makeover with Cedar Safe® cedar planking (coming this month) and because of the way we did the wall with the planking, we had some scraps leftover. 10 mins and one coat of paint later, I was D.O.N.E. And this amazing sprayer couldn’t be easier to work with. But this time, her crisp white finish makes my heart skip a beat. I was never very in love with the color she was before. Then, I used my HomeRight Finish Max Prosprayer and some leftover paint, Olympic Assure Exterior Flat in Crumb Cookie, from the boys’ clubhouse to give her a fresh and brighter coat of paint. That’s what gave me the grand idea to get out the old pallet coffee table and give it another go. We’ve been doing some updating outdoors, like building the boys’ a clubhouse, and we have plans for a more adult space soon. Gathering dust and mold and looking all forlorn. So for the last few months or more she’s been sitting, sans top, in our storage building. So, I did some settling on things like the paint color and the top and I think that’s how my love affair with it fizzled out so quickly. ![]() I was very pregnant, nesting and just wanted the thing done already. Our pallet coffee table has made an appearance once or twice on the blog, but never in a how-to. Now, I love it more than ever and I’m wondering why I didn’t do it like this in the first place! Then, I sort of fell out of love with it until I gave it an outdoor makeover. It used to live in our living room and I was in love with it. This is the story of a DIY Pallet Coffee Table that we built over 5 years ago. ![]()
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