Deck Furniture

Our new deck finally became usable by the end of August and I thought,

"Ya hoo, this is the best time to get new deck furniture because it will all be on clearance!"

How wrong I was.

If only I had started looking for furniture just a few weeks earlier...

I spent a good chunk of a day going to Lowe's, Home Depot, Pier 1, Target, Walmart, Fred Meyer, World Market, and Molbak's and found nothing. Nada. Zip.  

Not even a crappy piece of plastic outdoor furniture was left.  

Everything was gone to make room for all of the Halloween and even some Christmas (!?) stuff.

Back at home, I decided to check out Pottery Barn online, just to see if anything was still available and on sale...

I nearly jumped out of my chair when I saw their Chesapeake Dining Set. It was exactly what I had been looking for, it was in stock, and on sale!

But then I realized that while it was on sale, they also charge a delivery surcharge of $75 in addition to another 10% of the purchase price, adding another $142 to the price {which I was not willing to pay}.

It was a total letdown, causing me to stew for the remainder of the day.

Then my sister-in-law suggested I call around to the stores to see if they had it in stock so that I could avoid all of the shipping costs. 

Duh. Why didn't I think of that!?

I soon learned that the closest Pottery Barn did have it in stock and that if I wanted to purchase the floor model, they would give it to me for an additional 40% off. Score!!!

So the next day, we raced to Pottery Barn to pick up our gorgeous new table. 

While in the store, we also fell in love with the coordinating bench and its red cushion, and since it was 40% off, we couldn't resist snagging it too.

Since the table and bench were a total splurge for us {even though they were on sale}, we decided to shop for chairs elsewhere and hopefully get them for a cheaper price than the PB Chesapeake chairs.

Thankfully my hubby is a very savvy internet bargain shopper and found almost the exact same chairs for only $50 each (Pottery Barn's were $100/ea on sale!). He purchased the red/white striped cushions from PotteryBarn.com, which were on clearance.

They turned out to be a bit lighter than the table, so we plan to sand them down and re-stain them to match the table. A task I'm totally willing to tackle since we saved so much moolah.

As for the red umbrella, that was a lucky clearance find at Lowe's for $40 :)

 One of my favorite things about the new table is that is can extend to seat 10 people {we're still waiting for a few more chairs to arrive for that though}!

Our outdoor dining furniture is now nicer than what we have inside the house! 
As you can imagine, we have been eating every meal outside lately :)

 P.S. A great place to find inexpensive white dishes is Goodwill...I just scored these white plates {in perfect condition} there for $1/ea {Target sells the exact same ones for about $5/ea}! Just give them a good sanitizing run through the dishwasher and they're good as new :)

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