Pick a color UPDATED with finished pic

[susieq]

DH made me this awesome double adirondack chair for Christmas.  It needs to be painted. 

The house is light green with cream trim.  The front has dark green shutters. 

This chair sits on the back deck by our main entry.  The last one I had was bright red.  I loved the pop of color but want to do something different.

What color would you paint it?

[finally]

I love the chairs! I'd do a yellow.

[tarheels]

Cranberry? A dark, bright blue?

[tarheels]

Nope, got it: a punchy purply-red color.

[sju]

Those are beautiful! I like plum or blue. I also think a medium stain would go well with your house colors.

[magdala]

Coral or turquoise

[hausfrau]

Apr 7, 2013 9:04:30 GMT -5 tarheels said:

Nope, got it: a punchy purply-red color.

I agree! A plum or merlot-y purple would be pretty with your green.

[susieq]

Apr 7, 2013 11:32:49 GMT -5 hausfrau said:

Apr 7, 2013 9:04:30 GMT -5 tarheels said:

Nope, got it: a punchy purply-red color.

I agree! A plum or merlot-y purple would be pretty with your green.

I really wanted a plum!  But DH said that if I picked purple I would have to paint the chair   

[emoflamingo]

Sounds like you should find your paint brush because those would look divine plum.

[downtoearth]

Oh and don't paint...use purple or colored wood stain. It's way easier to get a fun color for our chairs like that and we just have to touch-up every 3 years. I love ours (ours are blue stain).

[bunnymendelbaum]

Ditto to purple! I agree about using a solid color stain.

[susieq]

I let DH talk me out of purple and I settled on an orange. It looks good with the color of the house but I regret not going purple. When it needs to be repainted it will be purple!

I will PIP tomorrow if I can remember to get a picture before the sun goes down.

Also staining it never crossed my mind. I will have to remember that for our next outdoor project.

[susieq]

Here is what we ended up with...



And please ignore the houseplants. This is their first day outside in several months. I dont do well keeping plants inside over the winter.

[emoflamingo]

That still looks great! I am partial to purple.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Looks great!

[niknik]

What color/product orange is that, I have a couple of chairs that need attention.

[aweilba]

It looks great!  The color really pops!

[susieq]

Apr 9, 2013 17:53:06 GMT -5 niknik said:

What color/product orange is that, I have a couple of chairs that need attention.

It is a Valspar Signature, Waverly Home Classics.  The color is Faded Clay.  It is almost the exact same color as a terracotta pot.  We had it mixed in Valspars Duramax paint.  I really like the duramax.  It has held up extremely well here on other painting projects we have done with it. 

[niknik]

I really think it looks gorgeous.

[Deleted]

That's Awesome!

[hausfrau]

It looks great!

[sunny]

looks awesome!