Back to School Deck Makeover ~~~ AFTER...finished makeover!

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 Welcome back again my Beauties!

I finally can show you the Deck Makeover now that it finally stopped raining..

Every....Single...Day...for the last few weeks.

You may remember the BEFORE post HERE!

Well now its time to show you the AFTER!

I even made you guys a little video so you could see me in the process 

of staining the deck.

As you could see in the video I was using

 Olympic^® ELITE Advanced Stain + Sealant in One

Olympic ELITE Advanced Stain + Sealant in One is a super-premium stain formulated to unlock and protect woods natural beauty with unrivaled richness and depth of color. A curated color palette of 14 rich wood-inspired colors utilizes only the most durable pigments for natural beauty and durability. A semi-solid provides more hide for wood with imperfections.

I chose the WENGE color and I am so happy I did.
I was BEYOND thrilled with how well this product worked.

Now I have stained my deck quite a few times in the almost 20 years that we have lived here

and I have NEVER had it so easy as I did this time.

Normally I would use a regular good quality deck stain and

for the process I would take a brush and run between all the boards and edges and then later go back over with a stain pad and finish up.

But THIS TIME..I didn't have to do that, thanks to the EXCELLENT advice from

Arvid of Olympic Stains.

When I went to pick up my stain he wanted to talk to me about the process.

I am so glad he did. He is the one who told me about this Wooster stain brush..(it looks like a wallpaper brush almost) 

It worked great, but I needed it to have a longer handle.

So I grabbed this little attachment for my 

extension pole.

I was in love..I can't believe I never knew about this.

This is the fastest and easiest I have EVER re-stained my deck.

The brush doesn't SNAG like the ole stain pads so I only had to use

one thing to stain the whole deck.

 Here you can see I had started on the side decks first. What a difference already!
I was amazed.

Here is all the decks in the process of drying.
Gotta love that Deck furniture thrown all over the yard look, don't ya!? :)

 

Now it was time to start putting the furniture back.

I love how RICH the color came out. 

I love how it feels like I am almost sitting in the living room with dark rich hardwood floors.

 

It plays off of our dark pergola so well too,

tying it all together. 

I especially love how it looks against the house..

seeing as it took us all summer to paint the DANG thing last summer.

You can see that post HERE.

 

What a difference. I just love walking out side and seeing the clean and warm dark stained deck.

I am so happy its DONE! Now I can enjoy it for the
Fabulous Fall weather we have coming our way.
My BACK TO SCHOOL project is finally DONE!
I hope you enjoyed this latest and greatest makeover.
Until next time (I will be lounging on my deck )
I hope you all have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Back to School Deck Makeover~~~~ BEFORE

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Good Morning my Beauties!
I thought I would show you a BIG project that I have been working on over

the past few Months. :)

This summer WE/I   (..hubby really didn't WANT to do it..but KNEW we had to) 

decided it was time to re stain the decks.

as you can see from this view the deck had some major wear and tear at the entrance to the home.

6 people and a dog tend to do that :)

Now one of the reasons for my hubby's lack of excitement is the fact that there are a total of 4 decks that HE/WE built that equal over 600 square feet. 

Its a big job!

Plus the fact that we built all the decks ourselves and three of them were made from

free old decking from friends. (which meant when we built the decks we had to flip all the boards and power wash them before we could build the deck;   Meaning...We have been down this long...deck stripping and staining road before) :)

Then we added the patio with fire pit at the end of the deck.

So lets just say..

Hubby wasn't "FEELIN" this project.

:)

 

So I decided it would be MY project.

I would do the whole thing.

I have done it multiple times before.

We have lived here almost 20 years so I knew what I was in for.

I started by taking EVERYTHING off the deck.

All the furniture,planters, rugs, and Kids crap.

 Since the deck was so dirty along with old stain,

I grabbed my father in laws little 

Power Washer.

You can see here the difference it made.

It was pretty quick to take off all the old worn and dirty finish.

Once it was power washed it was time to replace some boards.

These boards were BROKEN..because this spring when we were visiting 

family in Florida, we had a huge storm back home.

Branches fell and landed straight down into the deck smashing holes in two of the deck boards.

We were so thankful they hit the deck and not the house.

If they were strong enough to drive holes in a deck 

I can't even imagine what they could have done to the house.!!

So now the decks have all been washed and are waiting to be stained and sealed.

A Perfect Kids go "back to school" mom project.

....

Only...it hasn't stopped raining basically now for almost 2 weeks.

I have to wait for the deck to DRY before I can move on.

(you can see from this picture that the boards are still wet with rain)

So now I have to be patient and WAIT.

But when I DO start this is what I will be using.

Olympic^® ELITE Advanced Stain + Sealant in One

Olympic ELITE Advanced Stain + Sealant in One is a super-premium stain formulated to unlock and protect woods natural beauty with unrivaled richness and depth of color. A curated color palette of 14 rich wood-inspired colors utilizes only the most durable pigments for natural beauty and durability. A semi-solid provides more hide for wood with imperfections.

So...If it ever stops raining and my deck dries, I will get to show you the beautiful
"BACK TO SCHOOL" deck makeover!

Keep your fingers crossed that it will be BEFORE the snow starts to fall here in Michigan.

:)  

Until next time...

Have a BEAUTIFUL day!