After 3 years living in our apartment, Martin and I FINALLY bought a table for our balcony! We had moved in here in July 2004, but was rather busy preparing for our wedding and all, so the balcony was low on our priority list. Besides, by the time our wedding at the end of August was over, so was summer.
The following summer, we pulled ourselves together to paint the dirty yellow balcony to a nice clean "sand white" colour. It wasn't exactly the best year to paint an open balcony, though, since it was raining frequently. Nevertheless, that task was done, but before we knew it, summer was over once again, so no more attention was given to the most neglected "room" of our apartment.
Last summer, we bought a stone bench (low maintenance, especially in a cold country like Denmark). A place to sit at last! Not that we used it much, though. I mean, what use is a bench without a table? So why didn't we buy a table with the bench? Well, there was a stone table for sale too, but it was far too small. All the other tables on sale were not what we wanted, since we had our minds set on a low maintenance stone one.
This summer, we finally found a suitable table. It's not a stone table, but it looks nice (see picture), is weather-proof, and selling at a reasonable price. It's not something sold at the usual furniture stores, so it was good that a retail shop close to our home was selling this range.
So yeah, we picked up the table yesterday, and have been using it to the max today! First, we had our breakfast outdoors in the sun with the birds singing their songs, and then we had our dinner outdoors too in the warm summer evening; alfresco-style ;o).
*Sigh*....it's just so wonderful to do this at last, in the peacefulness of our own home, right in Copenhagen itself; a romantic evening with the man I love :o). The simple pleasures of life.
We still have a few more things we'd like to do with our balcony, though. For example, getting another stone bench, and doing some "landscaping". Let's see if we manage to do all this before summer 2007 is gone.
