So, I’ve been re-working our dining room the last month or so, and it started off with switching the lights out , and then adding a chalkboard wall,  and now it’s onto some chairs.  I have been wanting to get rid of the black chairs for awhile now, but chairs are so expensive…so they’ve stayed.

I was staying a week at my parents house in Wisconsin and my mom and I were thrifting (surprise!) one day and came across these beaut’s at the Goodwill.

Do you see “potential” written all over it??

I was giddy.  They were something new, well not exactly new new, but new to me new, and they were solid, and they were CHEAP!  At $10 a chair we loaded them up in a jiffy.

Since I was at my parents in Wisconsin for the week, I decided to tackle them right away.  I started by unscrewing the chair seat and taking off that beautiful blue color…

Oh, lucky me! There’s another cover hiding under there!  Hip hip hooray.

I must say, these covers were quite nasty, and the person before was staple happy, so by the end of the two chairs I had a pretty good blister forming…

After a lot of man power, I got them off.  The chair now looks empty..

I was excited to see how the piping was attached, how easy is that?

I painted by chairs….wait for it…White!  and then attached my new piping:)

Next up, seat cover.  I had drop cloth at home and decided I would cover the seats in that.  I knew I wanted to add something to them, so of course another bit surprise, I decided to add numbers.  Sorry for the lack of photos, but I made two large stencils using Modern No. 20 font, cut them out, centered them on my seat and stenciled them on.  I wanted the seat to look more like linen, so I stenciled a lot of my paint onto a paper towel first so only a little bit was left on the brush.  It gave more of a washed out look instead of a solid black looks.

and that’s how far I got in Wisconsin.

When I got back home, I finished stapling them and distressed the white a bit.  Here they are now in all their glory:)

The pop of white looks much better now since the wall is black.  I just flip flopped the colors.

Thing 1 and

thing 2.

I just took the power sander to the raised parts to give it the distressed look.

2 Chairs down….4 to go.

Do you spy anything else different in the room??
I”ll share that one next week!  And…it’s my favorite makeover lately:)

Allie