Summer Cottage Front Porch Makeover | Cozy Porch Inspiration🪴

Hey guys, welcome back to another video. Today we are going to give my porch a little bit of a makeover. So I have been in desperate need of not only decorating this porch but also giving it a new fresh coat of paint. I think it's been several years since I have painted my porch and you can probably tell by these clips. So for months I have had this paint chip at my house called Intellectual Gray from Sherman Williams and I've had the intent to paint my porch, my front door, my window boxes, my garage door, so many different things on the front of my house this color. I know it's not that crazy of a difference in color but I have saved so many images on Pinterest with white homes with this gray color and it is so beautiful. So I cannot wait to see this on my house. Besides painting, I'm going to run to the thrift store to see if I can find any pots or vases I could use for the porch and I'm also going to bring out one of my old chairs that I thrifted and painted along with another piece of furniture that I thrifted and painted years ago. I always love to shop for my home first to see if there's anything I can use before I go out and shop for new items. These are some pieces I found today that I wanted to give a little makeover to. So to start, I'm just going to spray paint them in this color khaki to give them a good base coat and then I'm going to go over them with a few different random colors. I'll be sure to include a link to that in the description time is running out of sight but basically I'm just dabbing paint onto the vases with a paper towel and I'm starting with the brown color then the gray and then I go over it with the lighter color. I felt like this gave it a run-down look like these were pots and vases that had been sitting out in the weather and that was the look that I was going for. I'm doing the same thing to these garden tools that I found from at home. I wanted to find some old vintage tools but since I had no luck at our thrift store I figured I would just do the same method on these purple tools and make them look rustic and old. Both of these furniture pieces are items that I found thrifting years ago and I painted them to give them a chippy look and because we have a real fireplace and we use wood I love to have wood stored up here on our porch not only to have a wood element up here but for functional purposes too. This crate was something I picked up from Hobby Lobby and I have been searching for a big crate for months so I was so excited to find this and I found this watering can at an antique shop. These mini pots and all of the florals I found at Hobby Lobby I wanted to decorate this crate to make it look functional so I'm adding the garden tools here along with the gloves. And then above here I found this peg rail at Walmart and it was just a natural wood and we stained it the color walnut and I'm just hanging some items here that I felt would tie this whole area in together. I found this large basket vase at our thrift store for only five dollars. I was so excited when I found this and I thought putting some little hydrangeas in here would look really beautiful so these are just faux hydrangeas and I found these at Michaels. They were only $4.99 a stem and they were half price so I got this whole bundle for around $12. This porch sign is also new and I found this at Hobby Lobby. I have one similar to this in our dining area and I always get so many comments about that so I thought this would look so cute hanging off of our porch. Okay well that's everything for this video. Thank you guys so much for watching. I am going to list my Pinterest below because this is something that I've recently been doing. I've been adding all of my images from my videos so if you ever want to save any inspiration from these videos I will have those listed below so make sure you're following over on Pinterest and if you are new around here make sure that you hit that red subscribe button. I upload new videos every Monday and Thursday so be sure to also hit that notification bell so you're never missing another video. Thanks again for watching and we'll see you guys in the next video.