Orange Deck

Our yard is in need of some serious upgrades. We started this weekend by re-staining the deck - ORANGE!

We 'accidentally' stained our cedar deck orange last year...(no, we are not idiots...these things happen when you have a screaming infant)...overtime the colour grew on us, but the application of stain was pretty ghetto, so we power-washed the deck, then power sanded it, and started over...

We have big big plans for the yard...plans involving a new garage, new driveway, new fence, and new patio/stone area.


In the meantime, I fell in love with these stone planters (from the Horsefeathers liquidation sale).

There was something sculptural about them, I just had to have all four! My very own stone henge! ..

Instead of filling them with gravel and then dirt and then plants, we are going to buy some large plants (like ferns) and just pop the pot into the top of each container.  That way I can take the plant out in the winter, and I will have four quiet sentries keeping watch over the yard during the colder months. 

Do you have a lot of outdoor work? Does it seem to take a back seat to the upgrades inside?