As I mentioned in a previous post, there had been parts for Adirondack lawn chairs all over the house and shop for 9+ months waiting on me to gather the will to glue them up and drive some weatherproof screws home. The Ruminator and I put together when he was here this summer – he supervised while waxing poetic about dressing up like a viking – and I spent a combined 12 hours priming and painting them candy apple red.
Since I don’t want to repaint them every spring I used an oil-based exterior paint. Holy crap, it was hard to find! It seems that everyone has switched to latex based paint for homeowner use (ease of use, easy cleanup, better for the environment, etc…) and I had to resort to having gloss deck and concrete paint custom mixed. It went on like glass though and should be impervious to our rainy long winter weather for three or four years. My sweet wife super loves them and could barely wait until they were dry before giving them a proper, reading a book in the sun, test.
Below is a gallery of the whole build process:
We bought the kit for these back around valentines day and planned to put them together and paint them together as a joint project and anniversary gift to each other. Like most like most great ideas in the Talley household, it got put on the back burner since we have so many other projects, not to mention full time jobs, kids, pets, friends to visit, etc. I was so excited when Matt started working on them, and the finished project is even better than I could have imagined. The second they were done I promptly invited a friend over to lounge in the backyard and drink cucumber mint water. Thank you baby! Ich liebe dich!