Saturday, May 16, 2015

A dock transformed pictorial. From an ugly duckling to a whimsical swan/flamingo et all; you decide?

So you have a very nasty looking dock that no matter how many times you repair this enormous underused space it never ever seems to help, since the spanse of 24'X28' seems to be harder to span even with many supports, and so the boards curl and look horrid, but after about ten years... of rebuilds... Major surgery is the decision to make the whole thing look better and function just right. Deconstruction is cautious since many of the boards that are still good will be recycled and therefore reused. And so they were by being turned over and eventually painted in their new configuration. The whole projects bottom line was less than two hundred dollars and that was mostly for the fill dirt in the hole; who said dirt is cheap!Hubby was going to store the remaining extra unused boards and I suggested a deck with a table to be made with them. We already had the base from an outdoor PVC tabletop that was from an original set purchased back in 1986 when we had first moved to the other coast and put that pool in, actually Hubby said the base would work; I had thought it was long gone, his idea...Over the years other tops had been made for it, in fact one years ago I had even painted a tropical sunset on, but that deteriorated too from our relentlessness glorious sunshine! This time Hubby made the top of 2X6's and it is the same as the deck and dock and painted very nicely the same color as them too with protective waterproof low VOC and non-toxic outdoor stain.It is quite heavy so not likely to end up in the canal from treacherous winds. The chairs you will see in that lattice pattern were purchased I do believe at Target after the hurricane or just before, can't seem to recall, but they are more than ten years old, at the very least eleven. The giant pink, very pink flamingo was also bought a very long time ago and at one time it moved and had lights, all gone now, but Pinkie does get painted regularly when he needs it, yep that's HIS name! The golden pineapple was a freebie and Hubby had fished it out of the canal when we first moved in seventeen years ago. I read that the pineapple is the symbol for welcome and so it was placed on the dock post. I saw on something that although I had painted it dark garden green and Hubby continued the coloration for the last few years, I saw that now not unlike our doorbell surround which is a brass pineapple that now glitzy golden colored pineapples were all the current rage and so Hubby did that for me, he sprayed it gold with interior gold paint we had left over, so it might not last but looks great right now. The umbrella we had for years too from BIG LOTS. So there you have it another place to plop yourself out side for a cooling beverage or a view of the sunset...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh Florida our home! Continue your viewing of our mutual ideas.






























Good night to all and to all count those blessings and share the ones that others might need and next time please be here please or be square, ya hear!

PS that chimaera is also ancient purchased from our Publix grocery years ago, maybe ten?

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