Repositioning the Swing

For her birthday Evelin got some new chairs for the deck. The Adirondack chairs we've had for years or definitely showing their age, and generally feeling unstable. Unfortunately after the chairs arrived, we quickly found out that their cushions were not weather-resistant. The tags actually say to keep them out of the sun, rain, and other weather ... despite being outdoor furniture. 😠

I tried some weatherproofing spray on them, which helped, but we still thought it best to move the new chairs to a more sheltered location — the front porch. However, this meant relocating the swing that's been here since before we bought the house. It's acutally a pretty comfortable swing, despite having needed a few repairs and bracing over the years. At first we figured we'd just stash it somewhere, but looking at the deck the from the ground I realized (once a shrub was moved) it might work under the deck ... and it does. It's not a bad location at all. I found a decent suspension kit that worked for the location (the springs work pretty well) and it hangs at a nice height. It's surprisingly pleasant.

Kind of visible behind it is the small Trunnell resin lean-to shed that I set up last November for the lawnmower. It's only about 4 feet × 2 feet and doesn't fit much of anything besides the mower, but it works. I'd originaly been looking at ways to close some or all of the underdeck area as a shed. That would have given us more storage space (freeing up room in the basement), but it would have made the swing solution unworkable, so I think the little shed/box was (again) the right solution for us.