I stained the decking in Cordovan Brown by BEHR, which I was lucky enough to have BEHR provide for this project,  and I love the color.. As you can see, one downside of going with a dark color like this is that you’ll definitely see some dirt showing up when you walk in from the garden, but this can be easily rinsed off when you’re out watering everything at night.

DIY Mint Sugar Scrub from.Love Grows Wild.

Hot Chocolate & Bailey’s from.S’Mores Mason Jar Gift from.Sock Puppet In A Jar from.

Consumer Crafts.(for the little ones!).

Reindeer Noses Mason Jar Gifts from.

The Hankful House.We added some new knobs of course and now the whole thing is ready to go!

We haven’t had any kind of large working space like this around our house (other than the kitchen) in the past and we’ve usually just used the picnic table in the driveway if we needed a lot of room, so this is kind of a big deal for us, if you couldn’t already tell!You can see that there are still some holes in the top where tools were attached, but that really won’t be a problem for what we’re using this for.

You can also see that Jack is never more than 6 inches away from me at any given time if he can help it!.There was quite a bit of pitting in this piece from years of rust and we decided not to worry too much about that.