Rejuvenating the Play Set
Our son, the Little Mister, has had this wooden play set for about three years now. He loves it! This Denver Wooden Swing Set was a gift from Santa his very first Christmas. It sits in our backyard where there is sun beaming on it for most of the day. Although it is still a rather new unit, it had started to fade pretty badly. And, the fabric over the fort was torn at the top, from years of waving in the wind. We knew it needed a refresh. So, we decided to stain it and change the fabric over the fort. We were able to do everything in one weekend. For this project, we enlisted the help of my brother and my husband's teenage cousin. She did a perfect job getting into the hard to reach nooks and crannies we struggled to get to with our old backs and knees. The first step to this refresh was to remove the slide and swings from the unit. We removed all the hardware from the wood, except the adjoining plates on the top corn...