I’ve been seeing lots of ideas on Pinterest using solar lights and jars for outside lighting. When I came across one using ceiling fan shades and solar lights I thought they would be great for my pergola. We put the pergola up a few years ago and although we love it, it hardly gets used. At the time we didn’t have it in the budget to put in a floor so we used rock instead. This is okay but unfortunately the kitties think it is a litter box sometimes, the weeds like to grow in it even though we put landscape paper down under the rock, and it’s the perfect play area for a six year old and his Tonka trucks. So, we really don’t use it much. We do hope to get a wood floor put in this summer sometime. Then next year we’re hoping to put a clear fiberglass roof up and I have big plans for all the tin Joe has stockpiled and has never used. I want to put sides halfway up the pergola using the tin and old wood. Then we could really use the pergola – it would be a great place to sit when it was raining, my lawn furniture would be somewhat protected and wouldn’t blow away, we could eat some meals there. Lots and lots of plans for this area. I haven’t landscaped around it because I want all the work to be done first but I can see in my mind how pretty it will be – someday! Until then, I dressed it up a bit with my homemade solar lights and they look so pretty at night!
