The Garden Bench: Upcycle project #1

It comes and goes in waves, my Ebay addiction. Some weeks I can spends hours searching for 'Vintage Dress size 10' or 'Antique furniture' and then other weeks I forget that Ebay even exists.

Recently I started yearning for a garden bench, as you do, and so I begun my quest to find the perfect seat for our cottage garden. Local garden centres were selling pristine examples for something like £150 and that was a price that I was not prepared to pay. I turned to Ebay and found this little beauty, complete with matching table for £30.

In a way I quite liked its worn out, weather beaten look but I couldn't resist the urge to paint it and bring it back to some kind of former glory.

 

So, on the first day of my summer holiday I set to sanding it all down. I then gave the body of the bench and the top of the table 2 coats of Cuprinol's Seagrass and sprayed the wrought iron arms, and the legs of the table in Antique White gloss.

 

At first I was a bit unsure of the colour. Maybe a tad too bright for our garden, but in a couple of days softened and now I love it.

 

What do you think?

 

 

 

 

VV x