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Now is a real good time to spruce up your painted patio or deck furniture. This page covers painted furniture and we'll cover patio and deck furniture with a clear finish on another page. If you have a question about how do I, we'll try to answer it.

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Old Fashioned Milk Paint. The deep rich colors of Milk Paint authentically reflect those colors found on existing antique furniture and buildings. This milk paint is made in the same manner as was used back in the days that excess milk was used up making paint.

Patio and Deck Furniture Cleaning

The first thing to do is clean your patio or deck furniture. The procedure is different from that for cleaning inside furniture since deck and patio furniture is usually more rough and tumble.

Any good commercial cleaner, soap and water or Tri Sodium Phosphate (TSP) will work well for cleaning outside furniture. TSP is stronger than most other cleaners and will remove quite a few marks. TSP is also good for preparing the painted surface for repainting in some cases.

Be sure to let your furniture dry well before doing any more work on it. If you sand wet paint the sanding residue will cling as a paste and flake off after the fresh paint has dried.

Prepare the Surface

Use a medium fine sandpaper to feather the edges of any chips or scratches. A liquid deglosser application will save a lot of time and work over sanding with sandpaper on the flat surfaces, although TSP will usually leave a painted surface in repaintable condition liquid deglosser or liquid sandpaper will always beat any other method for surface preparation. The liquid deglosser will clean any wax or grease missed by other cleaning methods. The liquid deglosser or liquid sandpaper for will save lots of elbow grease over sanding.

If there are any bare spots they should be primed and feathered, then the whole piece should be primed. Either a spray, or brush on primer will do the job. A toothbrush and toothpaste will remove many stains or marks, even waxy marks.

Final Finish

Now you should be ready for the final finish. Use a good exterior paint, either spray cans or brush on paint will work fine (although spray will leave a smoother finish) to give you some like new patio or deck furniture at a small fraction of the cost of new furniture.