Metal Garden Furniture

Making it Cozy

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I have a thing for iron scrolly garden furniture.

I have a little on my front porch.

I love it's pretty lines but it does seem a bit cold.

I've been watching Craigslist for weeks looking for furniture for my back deck.

This vintage set has been on there for for quite awhile.

listing here

It just seems a bit cold...doesn't it?

I'm guessing others think so too so it hasn't sold.

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But browsing Pinterest I've found many examples of how you can take the plainest of garden benches

and soften them up. Make them inviting. 

Just look at that space above...it's just begging you to take a nap.

The only thing that makes it so is the addition of a quilt.

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Here a daybed gets the treatment.

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Another daybed...complete with floral cushions and matching pillows.

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Daybeds seem such a luxury in the garden.

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Here just a plain chaise becomes the ultimate garden bed.

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So romantic with the addition of pillows.

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Just a common garden bench becomes the ultimate place to spend the afternoon

when pillows and quilts are added.

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And this is just your ordinary park bench but cover it in romantic pillows

and it becomes something special.

Looking through this makes me want to just gather up all the odds and end pillows 

I have around the house and throw them on my bench.

As it stands right now...I keep having to retrieve my outdoor pillows from the yard.

Last night was a big night of storms in Oklahoma City.

Again they skipped around me.

Thank goodness.

But it was really a hairy night.

Even the weather men are ready for the spring weather to end.

They are worn out from reporting it.

Last night I thought one of our old time weather guys...Gary England...

the one everyone listens to. I thought he was going to have a stroke on air...he was so hyped up.

We had tornado warnings and sirens going for hours plus

driving rain, hail and flash flooding.

I never lost power but many did. 

My dogs were never scared though...they take it all in stride.

I called my Mom...she had a different set of storms forming over her

and her dogs were barking and barking at the sound of the tornado sirens.

My dogs pretty much ignored it...
Franklin kept watch of the weather at the window.

Here's a good video of some storm chasers that got too close to one of the tornadoes yesterday.

See you Sunday for an Open House!