Thieves

That's right . . . our sweet peaceful suburban neighborhood has been taken over by hardened criminals. Okay, so they're less hardened criminals and more like petty thieves or more accurately bored teenagers on summer break.
I decided that this summer was the summer to outfit the front porch (shown below with the red arrow).

We already had some porch furniture from our townhouse deck. But what we were lacking was porch cushions, somehow the original cushions were lost in the move, note to future movers, don't store your cushions in garbage bags to move, people will think they are garbage and throw them out!
We found a new set of Sunbrella cushions at Homesense, I put them on the chairs and they fit perfectly I was so excited. The next night Lee ran into our neighbor who mentioned that they were on their 3rd set of outdoor cushions because some "little Buggar" keeps stealing them. I ran out front and pulled all of the cushions inside! I did not want to risk loosing $100 worth of outdoor cushion (btw, WOW outdoor cushions are expensive!).

 The next day I ran out to Zellers (it's basically like Canadian Target, although it's no where near as good as target!) and picked up a lockable BOX!
First we took some seriously exact measurements: Lee can lie down on our porch love seat with his head and legs hanging over the edges so if he could fit his torso in the box the cushion will fit. But how do you measure that?? The most hilarious way possible, you shove your 6'8" husband into a box in the middle of a store!

Now that you've recovered from that image where are we? . . . ? Right! We picked up a $50 box (marked down from $100), to save our $100 cushions! $50 might seem like a lot of money to spend, but I figured it would also be a great place to store the cushions over winter, and with our neighbors cushions being stolen twice already I didn't see it as spending $50 I saw it as saving $100!
We placed it against the wall:

 Behind our Love seat:

You can't even see it! It completely blends into the color of the love seat!
The box comes with 4 BIG screws and 4 washers so we were able to screw it down to the deck.

 And lastly we'll be able to snap on a lock and make sure no Dirty Rotten Cushion Thieves get our new Cushions!

We're really happy with our new safe and secure outdoor cushion box. I think it will be the perfect spot to place a small plant when we start outfitting our front porch for a end of summer party later this month!
Here they are all tucked in safe and sound!!

There's even a bit of room in there for a couple of throw pillows and maybe an outdoor blanket or two!