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One Room Challenge Patio Week 5…SO MUCH PROGRESS!

Our One Room Challenge patio has come so far since last week! If you follow me on Instagram, then you know we’ve been super busy and that the space is actually done and we photographed it yesterday! I’ll have to wait for the reveal images until next week but for now, here’s what we’ve accomplished since the last update.

First of all, we finally cleared all of hubby’s tools out and pressure washed the cement floor. I was hoping the pressure washing would remove the stains but that wasn’t the case so we ended up having to paint the floor, which was an extra step we didn’t plan for. one room challenge patio makeover one room challenge patio makeover

one room challenge patio floor painting

First, we sealed the floor and then painted it with concrete paint. Like I mentioned before, we have plans to eventually add a pool off of the patio so we’ll cover the patio floor in whatever pavers we install around the pool so that it’s a seamless transition. For now, I decided to keep the concrete floor clean and simple. one room challenge patio floor

Painting the floor made a huge difference and even though it was an extra step we didn’t anticipate, it was totally necessary and worth it.

In addition to painting the floors we finished painting the exterior doors and I have a blog post coming about the product we used that made that process pretty easy.

one room challenge patio

easy way to paint french doors

Other than painting, we spent a lot of time since last week working on landscaping.

one room challenge patio landscaping

The area on either side of the patio was a hot mess so we added some soil and shoveled two truckloads of river rock into the plant beds. That’s hard work, lemme tell ya! I am not a fan of mulch at all so although the rock was labor intensive, it was definitely worth it.

I kept the plants for the garden beds pretty simple and chose to use ornamental grass, agave, aloe and gardenia bushes.

I planted my herb garden too! I love the vintage charm this vintage Hungarian child’s tub adds to the space. It makes such a cute container for the herbs. one room challenge patio herb garden

And because I can’t help myself, here are a couple sneak peeks of the finished space that I shared on Instagram. 🙂 

one room challenge patio reveal

All of the detailed info on sources, colors, etc will be in next week’s One Room Challenge patio reveal post! Stay tuned, I can’t wait to show off the entire space!

In case you missed it, here are the week 1, week 2, week 3 and week 4 updates. Also, don’t forget to see what the other participants are up to!

3 Responses

  1. Wow, I’m in LOVE with all of your patio furniture and that little planter is such a great idea. I know where I would spend my entire summer now if I was you 🙂 Best of luck with this last week of ORC!

  2. This is coming together so well! I love the plants you chose too! Hope you have a great last week 😉

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