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What could be better than soaking in an outdoor bath with summer flowers and chirping birdies all around?
A hot-tub, that's what. But I can't afford one, so instead I will have an outdoor bathtub.
I found some ideas for design on the internet, and Barb kindly procured an old wrought-iron tub from someone who was renovating a house in Pictou ... for free! Daniel transported it home in his truck last summer, and I bought a Klenk's Epoxy Enamel Swiss Formula bathtub restoration kit, but I didn't have the time or a stretch of great weather to do the job. So, it sat outside for a whole year.
Recently Daniel suggested that I use it to collect rainwater for the greenhouse. As if! So, that was my dare to get going on ...
I found some ideas for design on the internet, and Barb kindly procured an old wrought-iron tub from someone who was renovating a house in Pictou ... for free! Daniel transported it home in his truck last summer, and I bought a Klenk's Epoxy Enamel Swiss Formula bathtub restoration kit, but I didn't have the time or a stretch of great weather to do the job. So, it sat outside for a whole year.
Recently Daniel suggested that I use it to collect rainwater for the greenhouse. As if! So, that was my dare to get going on ...
***The Outdoor Bathtub Project***
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| outdoor bathtub project now |
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| outdoor dream bathtub visioning exercise |
However, if I want my outdoor bathtub to look even slightly as beautiful as these, I first need to deal with the area around the tub:
- throw out that bin of scrap wood on the right
- weed around the tub
- lay down some flat beach stones
- plant flowers
So I'll get right to that tomorrow morning right after I have coffee in Daniel's my favourite coffee mug ...
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| stuff to get me started |
There will probably be a couple of interim posts on this project before I'm blogging from the tub, al fresco, and up to my neck in bubbles with my rubber ducky. I'll see how much I can get accomplished before Belmont Stakes post-time at 7:30pm AT. After all, Rome wasn't built in a day (but our greenhouse was).