Painting the potting shed

I had this potting shed for about 11 years and I have never painted it.  I just didn't know what color or how I wanted to paint it.

I picked out the orange color "New Penny" for the main color.  (Because orange is my favorite color.) I tried a jade and yellow as the accents.  I just did not like that color combination. So I went back to pick out different trim colors.  When I found the green color sample chart, the first color on the chart was called "Garden Spot". I just knew it was going to work.  The next two colors were "Geranium Leaf and Happy Camper".  Yep, those were the colors I bought.  I just love them.

I used gray primer and spray painted the front porch floor.  Then I used 2 different sizes of sponges to make the bricks.  I used a little of the jade and yellow samples that I bought but didn’t like for the trim to add some extra dimension in the brick red.

These rod iron chairs used to belong to my grandparents and they always had them on the front porch of their house.  I remember sitting in these chair when I was a small child.  I few years ago my aunt and uncle had an auction, and these chairs were on the auction.  I just had to have them.  I bought them and had them in my garden.  They got a little rusty from the water and old age, so I spray painted them white.  They look like new again.

It was fun to put them on the new "brick" porch.

The sun was starting to set last night, and I was not done painting.  I quick took this photo.

I was pretty dark when I took this last shot, but I got the second side painted.  I still have 2 sides to go.  I went through a whole gallon on the orange paint, "New Penny."  The wood was pretty dry.

My husband's name is Peter.  I kept saying this rhyme.  The true meaning of this rhyme is not so nice, but the rhyme is cute. He knows how much I love it outside and my pumpkin shell is one of my favorite places!

Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,

Had a wife but couldn't keep her;

He put her in a pumpkin shell

And there he kept her very well.