Come On In: Easy To Make Front Porch Table

Welcome to our house!

One characteristic that my husband and I both love about our home is the front porch.

Our first home together was a little cape cod with a wide front porch that we enjoyed sitting on with our comfy chairs...

What initially drew us to our second home (this one-) seven years ago was the cozy front porch.

 It is a great spot to watch the boys ride their bikes, or play basketball. It is a great place to sit down, and read a book behind the shelter of the tree. In the evenings, it has been a quiet place to sit and just watch the neighbor's taking a walk by, or even enjoy the birds chirping, and the frogs croaking...

It wasn't always that way~

For the last several years, I had a beautiful little iron table.

With the most uncomfortable chairs.

Not such a cozy or comfy place to sit.

So I raided my parents basement. (!)

I located the old chairs that sat on my front porch at our previous home seven years before.

(Thank GOD my mom is a keeper of things! I knew she would still have them for me!)

I still need to stain and sand them, but for now-they work.

I needed a side table, though, and my mom's basement wasn't hiding any more 'completed' treasures...But she was storing a few gardening pots of mine...

So~

After looking for inspiration, I found it on a blog, and got started.

(If this was your idea, thank you-I just can't remember where I found this idea!)

I spray painted two matching garden pots a glossy black.

I hot glued them together-bottom to bottom.

I bought a decorator table at Walmart (and threw out the legs-).

I painted that round piece of wood-top glossy black as well.

(Hot glued it to the garden pot-)

and added my favorite things:

Vinyl words.

{You can never have enough of those!}

...And then I added my Ipod!

Voila! Done~

(...Who has been enjoying sitting on the front porch again, watching the world go by~Next up: Staining those chairs...wish me luck!)