Patio Remodel for under $100 dollars

The Before Shot. 

Happy Friday All! Did those of you on the lower east coast survive Tropical Storm Andrea with little to no damage? I hope so. We are all fine here just a little water logged from all the rain lately. Anyway sorry for my delayed post. (I was secretly hoping I could blame it on the weather but it honestly did not get that bad at our place.) Instead I will blame it on the fact that I am now an adjunct college professor (if you want to get technical about the name). Really I am teaching clinic at the hospital I work at for Respiratory Students. So I will blame it on being a little overwhelmed from that.

Anyway my excuses are not why I am posting today. I am so excited to show off our new (actually been there all along) patio. So when we moved in a few years ago and decided to remodel our bathroom (you can see that project here), we also bought a patio set and umbrella from Ikea. When we bought these two I envisioned we would sit out there every night during nice weather eating dinner and have a ton of cook outs to go along with it. Reality is that the poor patio set has been very neglected and we have entirely too many bugs in the summer to sit out there every night. But hopefully that is going to change (the neglect not the bugs they are here to stay unfortunately) with my latest spruce up project because seriously guys I am in LOVE! 

So let me show you what I am so in love with: 

Isn't it just so cheerful? I mean I think I could sit out here every morning and have coffee now. If you are wondering how I got this thing painted well that was quite a chore. My first inclination was to spray paint the whole thing. I mean how easy would that be right. Wrong! Apparently wood soaks up A LOT of spray paint! Even with priming first I would still have needed too many cans of spray paint. So I opted for some nice exterior paint in a gloss from Lowe's. I think the color was happy jonquil by Valspar. And just rolled it right onto the table and chairs. Now this this not perfect and there are spots that are impossible to get (thanks to the slats) but I am in love and like the Nester says "it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful". As for the awesome rug that was a Target breakdown buy. I was planning to paint one of those as well but Jose convinced me to just go for the one I liked in target. (Gosh I love that man.) So there she is my new patio and I cannot wait to have people over for a cook out! 

As for a cost breakdown we already had the patio set and umbrella (I think when we bought them the umbrella was $79 and the patio set was $60 maybe). Here is the rest of the break down:

Paint: $13

Spray Primer: $12

Spray Paint (before realizing it was a bad plan): $6

Roller and sponge: Free (already on hand)

Rug: $60

Total for the spruce up: $91 

Had I opted to forgo the rug I would have only spent $31 dollars to update the patio but I really feel the rug makes the space. 

What do you guys think? How did you fare through Tropical Storm Andrea? To all of you still in Andrea's path good luck and I hope you have a kayak if you need to go anywhere.

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