Three Advantages to Painting Your Garden Furniture in Garden Shades
Article by Iainjenkin
The garden is a place of particular pride for most home owners, in which considerable investment is made to create the ideal escape from the urban sprawl around a home. Going to the leading DIY, gardening and home decor stores has become a regular pilgrimage. But decorative options have traditionally been limited by the weather. While leading products, such as Osmo door oil and Dulux paint, can now provide greater resilience to materials outdoor, it has only been the arrival of paints that complement the imagination of the home owner that has opened up a new world of possibilities. The concept behind these products, which include the Cuprinol Garden Shades range, is quite simply to provide home owners with outdoor wood treatment that provides a wider range of colour options. In fact, there are three key advantages that come with these paints. Reliable Protection Crucially, when it comes to painting any outdoor wood furniture, decking or garden features, there must be ample protection provided. If such things were painted simply for the sake of colour, the item would not last very long exposed to the elements. However, the whole point to such garden paint, unlike paint for the interior of the home, is that they provide a reliable layer of protection. The paint is absorbed by the wood, just as any protective oils would, to ensure a barrier against moisture. This type of paint is also formulated to allow the wood to breathe, expanding along with the wood in high temperatures and contracting with it in cold temperatures. This prevents cracking, thereby ensuring a longer lasting protection against moisture too. Exterior Decoration A lot is made of interior decoration in the home, and the themes and styles that can be applied to a room to turn it into something remarkable. What garden paints allow home owners to do is bring the ideas that have inspired them inside the home, outside. For example, the traditional idea when using garden benches was to place one near trees or shrubs, where there is a predominant sense of wood. Even so, the bench would be dominant, standing out ahead of any flowers or greenery that was present. If the bench was placed against a wall, it also tended to stand out against brick or whitewash or white paint. However, with paint that incorporates the vast range of garden shades, it is now possible to paint furniture to blend in with the vegetation that surrounds it. So, painting a shed a sage shade can see it sink into the dark green ivy that might be on a wall behind. Alternatively, the light blue of the Forget Me Not shade, allows a bench to become part of the colourful garden flora, and not a bland, brown item that stands distinct from its surroundings. Greater Convenience A third advantage is that the whole process of decorating and protecting is made simple and convenient. In the past, wood had to be treated first, using a form of oil or varnish before another layer of paint could be applied to colour the furniture or decking as one wished. The problem was that, even if the treatment was long lasting, the paint was more susceptible to the elements, and could peel. The result was that the furniture would have to be repainted quite regularly. Unsurprisingly, most people were put off the idea of painting their outdoor furniture at all, preferring to leave it wooden, though stained to a darker hue if necessary. Today, however, imagination and creativity is as much a part of the modern garden as it has long been inside the home. Thanks to products like those in the Cuprinol garden shades range, practical is now matched by aesthetics and, for the first time, the kind of creativity traditionally reserved for interior decoration can be enjoyed in the garden too. And while leading names, like Dulux paint for example, still offer a wide range of high quality options for outdoor wooden furniture, while the Osmo range of products, including Osmo door oil can provide protection against the elements, the complete range of options is more extensive. What to do, therefore, is to ask for the advice of experienced experts at a local DIY, gardening or home decor store.
About the Author
Iain Jenkins writes articles for Lords of Notting Hill, a provider of DIY products to redecorate in high quality. To add a bit of colour outdoors, Cuprinol garden shades are ideal to transform any garden furniture.