It's the prettiest piece of furniture I've seen in a long time and it makes me want to got out, get tons of colors and paint something... paint EVERYTHING! COLORFUL!
Btw. Christina is an extremly talented photographer, born in La Paz, Bolivia, who is currently living in California with her boyfriend and their 14 year old "puppy". Check out her work and her blog at christinadiaz.blogspot.com.
Here's how it looked before:
They applied some paint stripper, scraped the old paint off and we primed the wood with an indoor/outdoor primer. Afterwards they painted it with 20 different shades of color...
Paint colors she used for this bench are (from left to right):
1.sea pine-benjamin moore
2.southern breeze-behr
3.bright citrus-behr
4.chianti-martha stewart
5.gold rush-benjamin moore
6.savannah moss-benjamin moore
7.hallowed hush-behr
8.marine magic--behr
9.powdery mist-behr
10.summer harvest-behr
11.(repeat)bright citrus-behr
12.(repeat)gold rush-benjamin moore
13.fuchsia kiss-behr
14.(repeat)chianti-martha stewart
15.(repeat)southern breeze-behr
16.autumn malt-behr
17.(repeat)sea pine
18.(repeat)savannah moss-benj. moore
19.brown teepee-behr
20.(repeat)marine magic-behr
I ♥ every single one!
And this is where Cristina got her inspiration from...an old necklace...
Now head over to christinadiaz.blogspot.com and have a look at her beautiful images...
wunderschön <3<3<3<3
ReplyDeletethis bench is amazing! SUMMER in capitals
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing idea!
ReplyDeleteWas fuer tolle Farben! Gefaellt mir!
ReplyDeleteSommer pur :)
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous. We have mass amounts of decking outside but the gap is too big for us. We thought about adding strips of wood, to fill the gaps, using Orla Kiely type colours. This just makes me want to go and do it NOW! Thanks for sharing this. : )
ReplyDeleteach so eine bank möcht ich auch mal haben. die ist total toll. vielleicht nicht sooo viele farben. wunderbares projekt!
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