Front Porch {Frugal} Facelift

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As I shared last week, we've started tackling a ton of house projects at our home  . . . and it feels so good to get started!  We spent last weekend beginning work on our front porch, which was in sore need of new railing (some of the wood has started to rot.) So, we started bright and early Saturday morning, and worked, and worked, and worked.  We're saving so much by doing it ourselves (more on that later), but goodness . . . it ain't easy! 😉

What I'm most excited about though is that I finally freshened up my front porch rockers and added a new table out there. So, for just the cost of a few cans of spray paint (okay, alot of cans of spray paint), my front porch looks so much better! Here's what we did . . . .

I re-painted an old kids table that had been up in our playroom and was heading for the trash can. To create the words, I just used my Cricut and some vellum as well as some painters tape to tape everything off, then painted it all and removed the tape and letters ~ success! We had the paint (leftover from my office and dining room) and tape already, and I just used $.75 paint from the mis-matched paint bin at Lowe's, so my total out of cost for the project was $.75.  Not bad  . . . and I love having an extra table out there!

I also painted my old white rockers black, and I really do just love them. They look so much more cleaner, and I'm hoping they won't show all the dirt that they did when they were white. (Thankfully our front porch gets shade most of the day, so they haven't gotten hot like I was afraid they might!)

And last but not least, we re-painted our swing as well, and added a few throw pillows. I grabbed the pillows for $3 each in the awesome sale that's going on at Hobby Lobby this week, and even though I'm not sure they're exactly what I wanted, for $6 they'll do just fine for now!

Here's how we've done on our to-do list so far (goodness still so much to do!)

1. Re-stain front door
2. Clean and paint front porch rocking chairs
3. Paint front porch swing
4. Fix front porch railing (we're almost halfway there ~ whew!)
5. Paint/touch up siding
6. Re-stain deck
7. Get a new light bulb for the refrigerator
8. Sweep out cobwebs on the front porch
9. Get fans for the front porch (maybe?)
10. Recover dining room chairs
11. Cut down front tree (it was dead ~ my son tackled that one this morning)
12. Replace tree in front yard
13. Re-paint mailbox
14. Paint tables for front porch
15. Tile/brick/add something? to the front porch
16. Get new kitchen curtains
17. Re-paint guest bathroom
18. Paint kids bathroom
19. Update playroom

See more previous Friday Fluff Up projects and ideas . . . and Happy Fluffing!  

This post is linked up to Thrifty Thursday at Living Well Spending Less ~ thanks for the opportunity to link up!