The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, and I’m loving our front porch right now. Last fall we worked really hard to put in a flower bed and I felt like our porch needed a little more. In an effort to reduce some clutter in our garage, I followed an old door bench diy I found here. Isn’t her bench so lovely? The door I used wasn’t quite as thick so I had to reinforce mine some.
Adding extra wood made my bench not look quite right though. The beautiful chippy paint and the brand new wood just weren’t really working for me. You can see pictures below of how it looked originally. So I painted mine black even though I will miss the original color.
I also wanted to show you a little something I did to keep the pillow in place. It gets really windy where we live and I knew it would want to fly away, so i threaded a piece of fishing line through the back and tied it in place! You can’t see it at all unless you are up close. Oh, and this was an old outdoor pillow I covered with a kitchen towel from Hobby Lobby. I’m excited to watch the plants continue to grow and bloom this spring. -jess
