Woodland Courtyard Is Completed With An Upcycled Chair 🍄🦎🌸

Good morning everyone, it's Jeanette here from Enthusiastic Gardener. It is such a beautiful beautiful day It's calm as calm can be and it's warm. It's sunny Beautiful. Thank you so much to everybody who subscribed last week after I finally Mentioned please subscribe to my channel now I'm just gonna have to do that all the time because I think I've got about 45 new subscribers, which is amazing Thank you so much to everyone just to get that bit out of the way Please subscribe to my channel hit the like button and all that as I mentioned Everyone who watches my videos. I looked at my analytics and a hundred percent who watched probably only I think it was 34% subscribed Something like that 66% hadn't subscribed. So I just thought I'd give it a give it a go and but thank you I had a great great comments about our new chairs that we're going to be doing and I'm so glad that you approved because I want you to approve the main chairs that are going to be here which are going to be in the style of our Existing chair over in fountain garden, which Richard made it was a three-seater bench And he put new slats on made it into a single chair, which I absolutely love do sit there an awful lot So he's going to do the same thing with the four chairs, which we've got the arms for at battles bridge But you've seen all that. Hopefully I won't go into that, but I will mention That a lot of people are saying can't wait to see what color you do the chairs and I was thinking Oh, I love color, you know, I love color and Richard was saying. Oh, I think it should be brown or dark gray so I thought However after chatting I mentioned to him and he's coming around to the idea everyone and My great friend Elizabeth. Hello, Elizabeth. We chat all the time She's encouraging Richard to go for a color and another friend Diane McGowan She had the same idea I had she said Wouldn't it be nice if you took one of the ombre colors of the green? I thought the exact same thing because we have the yellow chair. We have the teal color chair So I think or blue and yellow make green on the color wheel So I think it would blend and I'm thinking agreed so I'm trying to get around Richard, but going back to Richard who is Wonderful yesterday. I said to him Richard what you up to today because every he's self-employed So he does different things every day and he said nothing much as yet so I said oh, oh if if you're not got much on do you think you could do my woodland courtyard chair and If you do do that, can you feel before me and can you move the camera around a bit? So the the shots are a little bit more interesting and can you smile? So I came home and he had done it. So he's done a little film for you Which is about five minutes long of him fixing the woodland courtyard chair So I'm going to show you that now and then I'll be back with you after A day after day I thought Jeanette brought so many hints this morning about if you've got nothing to do, why don't you do this? Why don't you do that? So anyway, my plan is to Prepare this chair Now as you can see there's a lump of wood missing. We're missing a slat there So Jeanette come up with the suggestion Take this slat off and I can actually use this slat being hardwood to repair this piece If it works, that's another thing We'll see. You can see the damaged area here and this is slat Carefully cut this slat out The idea is to paste that in here So I'll draw around it and then cut the same piece out If you've got my drift What I've done is put that on there. I've drawn around it. So I'm going to cut out exactly the same piece Same shape, should I say How easy that's going to be I do not know. But let's give it a go. I could end up dumping this chair What I've done, I've cut a slot out the back there That goes over the top and that'll be clamped in there It'll be stuck and screwed So that's that. Now I've got two catered for this And that's what I've got down here I'll drill a hole for this What I'm doing now is a bit of bonding agent That slides in there It goes like that Line it all up approximately Now what I'm planning to do now is just put a couple of screws Just to hold it in place That's been pieced in It's been stuck and screwed Once it's all gone off We'll do a bit of filling bit of filling but For a chair, it's going to be outside Which will never be sat on Yes, you can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear but At least it will be usable More on this later So here's Woodland Courtyard, my fabulous Woodland Courtyard, which I am adoring I keep showing it because I'm just delighted Delighted with wood. What's that? What's that doing in Woodland Courtyard? Ferns still looking good from Mark Border. We had a chat today, Mark and I Because I saw on Gardeners World, there was one of the viewers gardens and it was a sunken Furnery, oh my goodness. It was gorgeous Not something you can copy unless you have a swimming pool that you take out I suppose But what a lovely idea if you want to get rid of your swimming pool You could make a sunken garden. Oh, it was lovely Anyway, let's have a look at the chair And just to recap these are the chair sides That we are going to use to make the four chairs for the conversation area. I'm going to call that We're going to spray paint these black, black gloss. But here's Woodland Courtyard chair That Richard has finished. He's even, bless him, Shampered, I think the term is Shampered, Lottie. It's been shampered to match this existing. He's so sweet and he's done all that So I am going to take that into the garden now We're going to stain it with the wood stain that I have. This is my cupboard I'm allowed one cupboard. That piece of glass was the glass that went on the Old patio furniture But they haven't come and picked it up. I don't think they want it. But this is my cupboard of paint My treasure trove of paint. Well, I'm allowed the bottom I think the top bit is car washing stuff and these are my paints So I have to keep it tidy. Otherwise I get in deep trouble. You can see I've got spray paints and little bits of pieces I'm a little lazy Susan. I have a load, if anyone wants red Pillar box red paint. I bought a job lot Interesting Lottie. Right, let's go and take this outside Please excuse my washing but it was too nice a day Not to hang my washing out So let's get this set up and I'm going to show you What I'm going to use For woodland courtyard chair. Here is my lovely chair. He's done a fantastic job He's even chamfered down. I think that's the term chamfered chamfered Down this edge to match this edge So and these are quite expensive, you know, because I've seen them for sale like second-hand could be like a hundred pounds each So all I'm going to do I have some of this which is Furniture clinic wood stain natural oak And it says that I should Test the stain on an unseen area first. We don't need to do that We don't need to do that and you just apply liberally with a cloth or a brush in the direction of the grain Let it soak for one minute and then wipe the excess off leave it to dry for 10 minutes And then a second coat can be applied if desired And then after staining the wood it should be finished with a varnish oil or wax and I have clear varnish spray Which I can use for that See what happens I suppose I should do the underneath first that would make the most sense Okay, let's do it I think I'll speed the camera up play a little bit of music And away we go okay, well I have given the Chair the wood stain I'm gonna let that dry for 10 minutes. It's just a beautiful day here today I'm sitting here with a little cup of coffee for 10 minutes. This is my coffee table that I use and It's just a beautiful beautiful warm day. You can see over in the distance. I think let's see then There's no wind I can always tell from my wind chimes It's making the gentlest of sounds and I've got my fountain on Richard I think I said he's in a golf competition So I'm not sure what time he'll be back So I thought I'd sit and have a little cup of cup of coffee But I'd like to get the chair finished, but all I'm going to do is spray it I don't think I'll film it. I think that's a bit boring for you. Just have a couple of cans of this it's just clear lacquer clear varnish So I'll spray that I don't think it needs it to be honest, but I like to spray everything Everything that doesn't move and isn't alive such as a plant gets a spray of varnish I'm just imagining my chairs there my other chairs. Do you think a nice green would look nice? So I'll come back to you once The chair is all sprayed So peaceful today See you in a moment. It's all finished. I have given it a varnish It's just about dry. I Think so. Here we are woodland courtyard has its own woodland courtyard chair Quite tentatively just in case it's not quite dry I think it is we shall soon find out but it's going to be so nice to hide away around this little corner and Have a cup of tea in the morning or something else a little later in the day Richard thinks that I won't sit here. So I'm going to sit here whether I want to or not just to prove my point I'm Jeanette. I'm the enthusiastic gardener Hope you've enjoyed this video today, and I will see you soon. Take care everyone. Thank you for watching. Bye