Ready for next year!

Well done ! The chair and table look good together ! :o)

i like the table, it looks like a victorian design. is it a cast iron one? the chair looks comfy too.

well done Gee ..looks fab..happy new table and chair xx

Well done Gee, as for next summer well all i can say is bring it on, can't wait for it to come back:o))

Looks great Gee, maybe you may still get a warm spell to try it out this year. Quite agree about wooden furniture, there's plenty more interesting things to do in the garden than furniture maintenance.

Very true, Lily2. It's not cast iron, SBG, I think it is probably cast aluminium, quite light to handle. The chair is very comfy and I have a cusioned seat and back to go on it too :)

great job, they go very well together:)

WOW!! Gee19 that really look good. I am always looking for metal garden furniture too.You are right, they are very expensive.

A good job there Gee, I have a couple of benches (Teak) but they are ready for recycling (the table went into my poly tunnel today) I quite fancy a couple of chairs and a table like yours! :~))

The table is excellant Gee , I have one like that ,I would love to sent it to you for a makeover , it looks like new .
The chair is a nice reading chair as well , you have a wonderful eye for a bargain ........

great bargain buy Gee, look great together, i could just sit there myself with my mags and a cuppa :o))

Brilliant Gee...fantastic idea. Our wooden table is looking rough too despite several coats of something or other that was s'posed to preserve it. We were talking of chucking it but it is structurally sound so I just throw a tablecloth over it when we entertain.
I really like your metal stuff tho...good old Ebay! Some of that metal furniture is bloomin' expensive to buy new so you must've saved yourself a packet.

Well, that was a good day's work, Gee! With your cushions in the chair and a nice cup of coffee, you'll be all set up for a relax...that is after the weeding, mowing, planting, pruning, etc etc.....LOL.

...plus the digging, dead heading, watering & composting....LOL!

looks lovely

A great find and what a brilliant job you have done on them,I prefer metal furnuture it looks so attrctive in a garden. hope you get some nice sunny mornings to sit out before Winter gets underway, its lovely here this morning just had a cuppa outside watching the Doves feeding

Lucky you pansy I am at work having a ten minet break with goy

its very dull here in blackpool carole you are lucky, not working like you though donnah, poor you on sunday

I admire your new makeover and the chair looks well with it

Hi sanbaz Well I finish at 3 so I can have a little while in the gaden

well thats something good then, is the sun out donnah, just waiting for my son then im going to get some shopping with his help as i cant lift heavy stuff yet, nice to get out though

yes we have sun but its a bit cold

They look Fantastic in that little corner, really brightened it up Gee, Mine need stripped and painted but its such a big job so i bought 4 new chairs in B&Qs sale for £15 last year, the Table still needs doing tho..
Go onto Argos site, there metal furniture are on sale, There was a lovely little Black Metal bench and a red cushion for it quite cheap (sorry cant remember ho much).

Good job done ......bet you cant wait for the summer to come back to use it.....

Chilly here, as well! The sun was out for a while, but it's clouded over now. :-(

Gone very chilly and drizzly here now,so no more sitting outtoday!

They really look very nice. Congratulations !

Quite elegant! What a satisfying project. Now what are you going to read, hmm?

Usually I read detective/thriller type books - sometimes I scare myself if I read at night!

I don't know if you have read any of Dick Francis' novels Gee but they are a must for me. All of them are based, in one way or another, around horses and the scandles within. :~))

Francis is funny, Digger. Enjoy Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy antique dealer series, too. But hooked on that Scot, Ian Rankin, myself: getting to know Edinburgh vicariously.

I think Gash's Lovejoy books were spoilt somewhat for me by that awful TV series of the same name!

I have read Ian Rankin too and enjoyed them immensely. I tried a Dick Francis novel some years ago, Ian, and just couldn't get into it. My favourites are Peter Robinson, Stuart Pawson and Peter James although I like a lot of the American detective/trhiller books, like Jonathan Kellerman, too :)

Who's a clever bunny then?

Great place to watch all the wildlife in your Rowan when you get it!!

Good work Gee.....well done:0)

The rowan tree is getting nearer! I have found a tree nursery in Norfolk which specialises in rowan trees and they do the one I want. I haven't ordered yet but will be doing so very soon :)

Great Job, Gee!
The chair & table look perfect!
I like Ian Rankin too, but mainly cos his books 'take me home' to Edinburgh!
I love a good murder, but still go for Christie & Marsh, & Patricia Cornwell, though I havent had time for leisure reading much lately! I do confess to reading a fair amount of 'chick-lit' as "bubble-gum for the brain" when I've overdone the textbooks!

Hi Gee, really fabulous job. As you know I have just refurbished a childrens garden chair. I note you use hammerite. I used to use that but find that Aldi metal paint, which comes in silver, black, green and white is much easier to use. The reason being, it flows on like gloss paint and you can clean your brush in white spirit and re-use the brush.

Thanks for that tip, Alan. I need to buy some paint for my front gate so will look out for it in Aldi at the weekend. I think I just used the hammerite because I already had it but it is difficult to work with, so sticky! The table is probably ready for a tidy up - didn't realise it was so long ago that I did it. Can't see much of it, covered in potted plants :)

Gee, the paint is not always available, as it comes in from time to time in the Seasonal Offers. I seem to remember seeing tins in our local store over the last few weeks though. I'm pretty sure it has the name 'Deco' on it. If you do get any and use it, you won't go back to Hammerite. I used to paint a handrail outside my Mothers bungalow. It took 2 hours using HR and half that time using the Deco. I have also used the white, on radiators in the house and loads of different projects. Good Luck. <;~))