Quick Swing Set Face Lift!

When we bought our house the previous owners left their swing set. We don't have children but we do have children visitors so I decided that the swing set needed a face lift this summer. We used extra stain from our deck to give it a fresh stain Then I needed to do something about the canopy. It had gotten ripped when we had some little visitors over so it was time to do something about it.

In this photo the swing set has already been stained & you can see that I used some handy duck tape to tape the canopy back together.

I believe that this was a brighter green at one point!

I had picked up a vinyl table cloth at Target a while ago thinking that I would make a beach bag out of it but I never got around to it so I measured the already existing canopy and folded and cut the table cloth so that when it was folded in half it was the right width. I had it so that both side of the new canopy had the vinyl side facing out. I made it longer then what I had measured as well so that there would be enough to glue and nail to the cross bars to keep it in place. It took me 10 - 15 mins to do the sewing....super easy!

Once it was all stitched up I draped it over the existing beams so that it mimicked the existing canopy and I glued and nailed it into place.

This face lift was super easy and used all things that I already had here at the house! So far the new vinyl canopy has help up and it makes the swing set look so much better!