August Passion Project

If you have been following me on facebook or recently here on the blog, you know that I chose a "passion project" every month. Simply put, it is a project or challenge that I give myself the month to complete. Sometimes I will do 2-3 projects. This summer I have been doing some simple painting projects that I can do outdoors. 

For August, it was this barn wood bench on my front porch. I bought it about 15 years ago from (off all places) at our local Ace Hardware store! It was built from old barn wood by someone who knew the owner of the hardware store. It was the end of the season and they had marked it down to a really low price so we loaded it up on the spot! 

I haven't ever really used it for a potting bench since I do that on the back patio, but I like to collect old watering cans and I keep a few of my gardening tools for the front yard as well fertilizer for my potted plants there. As you can see, most of the red stain has faded off and the wood is pretty dried out and rough.

I picked up some Barn Red stain and pack of sponges as well as a good supply of plastic gloves. I literally used the entire can of stain--that dry wood was thirsty!

This also gave me a chance to purge some of junk and clean up those watering cans!

All done! Should be good for another 15 years??