Fence Painting

If you recall, last October we put up a privacy fence along the backyard (since our house is on a corner, it was feeling exposed to the passing traffic).

Then winter came along, so we put staining it on hold.  

But now Spring is here, and we're moving right along...

BEFORE:

IN PROGRESS: 

In progress

Last Friday, Mike got started.

He tried using a roller & paint brush on the first panel- it took him an hour.  With approx. 32 panels, that was going to take WAY too long.

Luckily, we had an old paint sprayer from doing the fence at our old house.  It even had an attachment to pull directly from the big bucket of stain.
Things moved more quickly after that- until we ran out of stain.  (Since we didn't know how much it would take, we just bought a 5 gallon bucket to start).

Mike got this birdhouse
from a friend for Christmas.
That got hung and stained too.

Back to the home improvement center- to find they only had 1 more bucket of stain in stock... We're about 1/3 of the way down the fence, so we estimate that we need 2 more 5 gallon buckets.
We got the one mixed & will go back this weekend for the second.

I guess it was better that we stopped on Friday, since it rained on Saturday night (you need 24 hrs of clear weather for the stain to dry).

 Anyway, with a third of it complete, we can tell you that we really love the dark green. 

The few flowers that are around it really pop, and it also coordinates nicely with the hammock (which we also put up last weekend).

 

I'm praying for nice weather, so we can finish this up over the weekend!

Update: Here's the finished fence!