Dress Up Your Deck: Details Make a Difference on Decks
and Porches
by: Kathryn Falls
Are you looking to make a statement with your wooden deck or porch? Do
you want to enhance the color scheme or architectural charm of your
home’s exterior? The Flood Company’s products allow you to re-energize
your home’s outdoor areas with customizations that can be as simple or
as elaborate as your imagination allows. The following deck ideas will
help to get you started.
Finish your patios, decks, porches or planters with Flood’s
inventive colors to lend a bold charm to surfaces. For example,
perk up your deck planters using this season’s hottest tropical
hues. For maximum impact, select a hue from your planter's color
palette and fill the container generously with overflowing
blooms.
You also may consider creating one or more vignettes of
planters that sport different sizes and shapes. Using Flood
finishes, or quality paints with Flood paint conditioners such
as Floetrol® or Penetrol® added, will allow you to creatively
pattern and unify the entire group. |
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For a more intricate design, introduce a new or recently
refurbished gate to effectively update the entire appearance of your
exterior living space. Explore the possibility of installing a custom
gate to enhance your home's architectural style. Select an appropriate
motif, and then tie into the current exterior paint color scheme by
utilizing existing door, window and trim colors. Gates that feature
contrasting colors with the current deck space create a vibrant and
eye-catching focal point that personalizes the outdoor living space.
Mixing and matching materials adds visual interest by displaying
differing textures as part of the outdoor living area. Materials may
differ in texture and fabrication, but they still provide colors that
bear a definite resemblance to each other. For example, a homeowner may
opt to combine stone-colored poured concrete asymmetrical pavers with
sand-colored rectangular brick pavers to produce a unique flooring
pattern. The exterior flooring can be customized further by painting the
concrete with a quality product that mimics the appearance of brick
pavers that appear weathered by age. By applying a paint application
that lends a distressed flavor to the concrete flooring, the entire
surface becomes stylishly and harmoniously unified. Wood, metal and
synthetic materials can be attractively painted, then partnered with
interesting flooring patterns and fabrications to produce dynamic
outdoor styles that enhance both the color scheme and architectural
style of the entire house.
Courtesy of The Paint Quality Institute.
About The Author
Flood products are designed to restore, protect and beautify natural
woods and other challenging surfaces. The company’s brands and products
are sold in more than 25,000 retail outlets throughout the world and
include CWF-UV/CWF-UV5, Penetrol, Floetrol, E-B Emulsa-Bond, Restora and
the CWF-UltraLast portfolio of products. Log on to
http://www.flood.com for
helpful hints and product information.
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