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10 Ways to Jazz Up Your

Outdoor Living Space

1. The easiest way to jazz up your inexpensive and comes in lots of great or three different corresponding
outdoor deck or patio is by using colors. Place a colorful bar cart in shades.
splashes of color. the corner and load it up with bright
acrylic glassware. 7. Who says garden sheds have to
Sometimes it only means investing in be brown and boring. Add colorful
a few accent pieces that make a bold 4. Give your old wicker furniture window boxes, gingerbread trim and
statement and your outdoor living a facelift by painting it in bright some wild stripes on the walls.
space perks right up. You don’t always sunny colors, or if you’re feeling
have to buy new – with a little elbow adventuress, use a stencil and add 8. Funky lighting goes a long way
grease and some creativity you can flowers or other patterns. Just use to perking up a patio area. Colorful
make second hand items look brand acrylic paint, but seal it with varnish lanterns or strings of lights can be
new. Here are some ideas to help get to protect your paint job. hung from overhanging trees or
you started. beams providing a fun, economical
5. Get a hold of a galvanized bucket source of lighting.
2. Before you begin, clear everything or oblong container, paint it bright
off of your deck or patio and give blue or orange and add a vine pattern 9. What to do with the white vinyl
it a good pressure wash. If it needs on the outside. Voila, now you have a furniture that’s still in great shape, but
staining, all the new furniture in the fancy ice-bucket for all your coolers. you hate to get rid of? Not to worry.
world won’t help – bite the bullet and Remember, unless you’re using a With paint specially formulated
give it a new coat of stain or paint. food-safe paint, the surface should for vinyl furniture, and some new
This is actually a great place to get not come in direct contact with food. cushions, you can make your old
started with colorful accents. Try chairs look brand new.
painting your fence posts a bright, 6. Use themes such as the seashore, by
coordinating color such as teal. Or incorporating fishies, sea shells and 10. Use color wisely by tying
paint a pattern or border around the beach balls in your accents or stencils. everything together with your
edge of your deck. accessories. Take four chairs each
A citrus theme works well by using painted in a different primary color
3. Decks are for socializing, so show pale greens, oranges and yellow as and add a cushion in a common color
that you are ready for company. colors for chairs or bistro tables. Try such as red or green, and place them
The addition of metal furniture is painting a slatted table top with two around a neutral table top.