my sweet grandma emailed me last week and told me that her friend was having a garage sale, and she got to have a sneak peek of the goods before the sale :) she found 2 wood dining room chairs, and she knew that i was on the hunt for chairs to go with our newly acquired table, and wanted to know if i was interested in them!
her friend texted me a picture of the chairs, and when she told me we could get both for only $15 i said "yes!" it was so sweet of her to think of me and to find me such a great deal! we found out the chairs belonged to her friends family member who barely ever used them!
the chair: (before)
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the only real thing i didn't like about them was the seat cover, but thankfully that's a fairly easy fix. i say fairly because if you know me at all, you know that NOTHING is ever easy for me. i could write another entire post on that, but for now i'll just say even covering the chairs wasn't quite as easy as it should have been ;)
i found fabric that i liked at joann's that had fun teal flowers on them that go with our dishes and the dining room paint color that i picked (teal valspar paint called "gone fishing").
the fabric:
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usually you are supposed to be able to just unscrew the legs of the chair, pull off the cushion part and recover it with fabric. well these chairs were not put together in the usual way and there was no easy way to pull the cushion off, so i had to recover it still attached. it took a little figuring out to get it just right, but with a staple gun, some safety goggles and my mom's help, i was able to recover both chairs in a little over an hour! i love how they turned out.
always be safe when you're working with tools: ;)
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the finished product!
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all in all, the table was $35, the chairs were $15, and the materials to redo them both were about $50. not bad! i always love scoring a good deal and it was fun to make them look the way i wanted them to look. :) i'll be sure to post more pictures of projects as they come along!
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