You love that old Adirondack furniture set you have in the backyard, but you keep thinking that it needs something.
You have looked at it day after day and at first thought another color on the pieces would do the trick.
So, you bought some paint, went to work and now have a set of Adirondack furniture in another color that is still missing something.
Maybe the problem isn't the color.
Maybe you need to look more at the rest of your backyard to see what's happening here.
If you have a backyard that is full of details, and a simple color of Adirondack furniture sits in the midst of that, it may just be too boring to go with the rest of the backyard furniture.
This doesn't mean you have to get rid of the Adirondack furniture you love so.
You just need to dress it up a bit.
Luckily, that's an easy job.
You need to add accents that are reminiscent of your backyard motif to the furniture pieces.
You are going to need a few stencils (that go with your backyard theme), the paint colors you want in the design, stencil brushes and masking table (low-tack).
It also would help to have a little water and some paper towels on hand.
Start by deciding just how you want the stencils to look on your chairs.
You may want to lay them out and then adjust them until they are exactly what you had been picturing.
You only get one chance to do this right, unless there's a lot of paint thinner involved, so you want to make sure it's want you want before you start painting.
Once you are pretty sure of how you want the design to play out on your Adirondack furniture, you should tape down the first piece of stencil you plan to paint.
If you are using a number of different colors on the project, you should paint only one color at a time, and wait until that layer dries before doing the abutting colors.
You don't want there to be paint smudging and mixing right along the stencil line.
Once you have painted the amount of the stencil you need for one area, remove it.
If that stencil is part of a repeat pattern, you need to clean it before you move it to the next place it will be painted.
Use a paper towel to make sure there isn't any stray paint on the back of it that will transfer into a smudge or smear on your Adirondack furniture.
Once it's clean, go on to the next area that needs to be stenciled.
Be patient.
When you are first starting this process and only see part of the stenciling, you may think you aren't going to like it.
Often stencils are not nearly as attractive as you would like them to be until you finish the design.
Then, suddenly it will all come to life and be the accent your Adirondack furniture was missing.