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Simple ways to update your garden furniture

May 1st, 2024

Little Greene

Painting your garden furniture is one of the quickest and easiest ways to revamp your exteriors. It’s a fabulous way to bring joyful colour to your garden for the summer months, as well as helping to protect and weatherproof your outdoor furniture so it lasts all year.

Discover ideas for how you can use our durable exterior paints to make simple, effective updates to your garden furniture…

Ceiling, Door & Frame: Loft White, Cladded Wall: Celestial Blue, Chairs: Garden

Choose your paint finish

At Little Greene, we offer hard-wearing eggshell and gloss exterior finishes that are suitable for painting wood, metal and even plastic garden furniture. These are available in the complete colour palette, so you can easily create beautiful, coordinated schemes that flow from the inside to the outside of your home.

For a low-sheen eggshell finish, our water-based, low-odour Intelligent Exterior Eggshell is ideal. It’s self-priming on bare and painted wood, meaning you can update your garden furniture quickly and efficiently, with minimal preparation. You can also pair Intelligent Exterior Eggshell with our Intelligent ASP primer for painting metal and plastic furniture.

Ceiling & Frame: Slaked Lime, Cladded Wall: Aquamarine - Deep, Chairs: Indian Yellow

Alternatively, consider a gloss finish for your garden furniture. With its sophisticated high sheen, Intelligent Gloss will create real impact in your outdoor space. This water-based gloss paint is a quick-drying alternative to a traditional oil-based gloss, providing the same tough, robust and easy-to-clean finish.

Ceiling, Door & Frame: Loft White, Cladded Wall: Celestial Blue, Chairs: Bassoon

A burst of yellow sunshine

Yellow is the perfect colour to embrace in your exteriors, bringing a dose of energising sunshine to your scheme, whatever the weather. Paint your garden chairs in your chosen Little Greene yellow shade to instantly enliven your outdoor space.

A light, bright yellow like Indian Yellow is a great choice to complement greens such as Hopper or Aquamarine. Or you could choose the rich and earthy Bassoon to team with Celestial Blue for an elegant pairing.

Giallo has a warm, welcoming, golden-yellow hue that is very easy to use, especially in exterior settings. This splendid yellow will transform a pair of garden chairs into a vibrant focal point, blending beautifully with the surrounding greenery.

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Wall: Linen Wash, Window Frame: Loft White, Table: Smalt, Chair: Bone China Blue

Added impact

Your exteriors provide so many opportunities to introduce colour, whether you update your masonry, fencing, garden shed or a flower bed. If you’re looking for a small weekend project, consider painting just one table or chair in a vibrant hue to bring personality and design interest to your scheme. Even if you just paint the legs of your outdoor dining table, this will create an impactful focal point and instantly enhance your exteriors.

Cladded Wall: Celestial Blue, Chair: Marine Blue, Balustrade: Loft White

Bold, vibrant blues work fantastically as a colour highlight in exterior settings. They look inviting and contemporary amongst a backdrop of contrasting natural greenery, wood or stone. Consider incorporating a statement blue to add a contemporary twist to a traditional white and light blue colour scheme.

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Far Wall: Yellow-Pink, Cladding: Scree, Woodwork: Loft White

An inspiring setting for little ones

As well as being somewhere to entertain family and friends, your exteriors can provide a safe and inspiring environment for energetic little ones to find a sense of adventure! Painting garden furniture like play sheds, toys and teepees will help to make the space feel like their own, sparking their imagination as they explore the natural world.

Teepee: Light Peachblossom, Canton, Yellow-Pink, Tuscan Red and Tea with Florence, Fence: Juniper Ash

An outdoor shed is a great place to store all your little one’s toys as they play outside during the summer months. Consider painting your shed in a dark, earthy shade like Scree to blend in with the leafy surroundings, and contrast with Yellow-Pink in the adjoining play area. Or you could create a fun, colourful shelter by painting an outdoor teepee in a palette of vibrant shades.