We this weekend, we finished our deck. Last week Patrick and the boys finished power washing it, and it made SUCH a difference, I couldn't believe it!
Patrick looked everywhere for stain for me, but we couldn't find any "interesting" colors in stain without paying 4 times as much as for a 'natural' color. Our budget doesn't allow for spending even 2 x for my oddity, so he went ahead and got brown stain and started on the top level...
Then I decided that although it definitely looked "nice"... it just looked too... normal. I had to try something. So, I took the pink paint from my kitchen (exterior paint) and watered it down and used that as a 'stain'...
I am THRILLED with our new deck. I LOVE it! The pink is colorful, and it just makes me smile every time I walk outside. We had a party Saturday night and hung out on the deck in what was quite possibly the most perfect 'sit on the deck' weather ever. Yay!
