Sailor's retreat

Oooooooh, orangey/pink decking....
... the blue plant pots contrast nicely with the dazzling flooring ...

Perpetrator.... I can see you...:o(

It's not good is it Terra? Imagine if I'd got orange pots...you've been tangoed!
Hubby retaliates by saying my solar lights make the garden look like Heathrow at night...

great summer house and deck, it is bright, not quite pink lol, but looks lovely fluff

Thanks San...we enjoy it every day, despite the colour! It's a great place for friends & drinks etc as it's always out of the wind & very sun drenched.

Looks pink in the other pic..Lol.

~bit of sun and a bit of rain will weather that in no time!

its a fun place fluff

I like your cat.

good eyes hywel i didnt notice puss, he`s lovely

Fantastic structure. I could do with one to sleep in when Julie (my wife ) has a bad snoring night. Well, that's most nights really!

Thanks Paul...you can borrow ours! Send her across with her sleeping bag...she'd be very welcome...people do sleep in there after barbies sometimes!! :0)

I think it looks great.

She's on her way. And she likes Dorset so you may never get rid of her!!!!!!!

Hey hey ...I'll put the kettle on Paul! ;0)

Thanks Clarice...it is a lovely place to sit in any weather...if it's tipping down we caan sit inside & look out! It made the garden...the pylon behind needed the attention taken away from it!

fluff that looks brill

Thanks Donnah...Do you really like it? I've had some ribbing about the decking colour but the summerhouse has brought the garden together & taken the eye away from the pylon behind which used to be all you saw.

Hopefully the orange will fade with time & certainly with all the rain we're having! :0)

You aint the first to get caught out with the "Red Cedar" Fluff , the summer house and decking look great . It's not unlike my summerhouse , did you build it?

No Mac...we bought it from a local company & they put it up.

Unfortunately this is the 2nd time we've stained decking & this red cedar is now peeling off. Maybe it's the acid rain we've been having by the bucketful or maybe we should've used decking oil but hubby has just sent an 'angry from Dorset' email to Cuprinol outlining the problem.

Bet they blame the 'adverse weather conditions'. :0(

Is it peeling off the rails as well as the decking , if it's just the decking its more than likely it's suitable for fences and not walking on , I think you are right about decking oil or yacht varnish would do it.

It's both Mac although the decking hasn't had too many feet walking over it this year....you're quite right...we shoudl've used oil. It cost a lot of money that red cedar rubbish. It's a sore point in our house!

Fluff between the weather,walking on it and early next year clean it all with a pressure jetter you might well remove enough of it to be able to do something with it

Good plan Mac....let the winter do it's worst then blast it all away! I like the sound of that! £70 worth of decking paint...good riddance. ;0)

eeeekkkk!!! £70!!! once you pressure jet it, try and get it back in the tin :-)

I said more than eeeeeek I can tell you! I suppose I could sell it on Ebay as fairies orange squash? After all...people with no brain have been bidding for empty KFC buckets & bags of fresh air.

It looks fine in the picture. I love the blue pots.

It must be lovely to be able to enjoy the garden whatever the weather. one day... :)

It is too...I call it the sailor's retreat as it's full of nauticalia & my old matelot goes up there to listen to classical music which I'm not fond of!

i like your garden , so beautiful

I absolutely love it!!

I think it looks quite nice, gives the garden a bit of colour.

Would love to see a photo this year to see if it weathered in LOL

LOVE it none the less :O)

Thank you for your comments all ... it hasn't weathered at all well Bloominglovely ... it's all peeled off & looks shabby. I'm happy to lose the orange tinge but can't afford to re-do it yet ... spent enough on it already!!
Now maybe if my OH had used decking oil it may not be in such a state ,,, but I'm not going to say 'I told you so' am I?!!! :o))))

P.S. I'll include pics of it in a blog soon.