Chair Makeover

One more post about a yard sale find. (I really never go yard-saleing - I just got lucky, 'happening-to-pass-by' two garage sales in my own neighborhood this summer.)  So at a yard sale down the street from my house I spotted these 2 chairs. $10 for the pair. They looked a little bedraggled but full of potential.

Here is the "after".  It only took me about a month and a half of looking at the chairs to decide what I wanted to to. So many colors and directions to go with these beauties.  In the end I decided I was feeling the 'scandinavian' vibe and went white.

I found the fabric at Ikea (see? Scandinavian!) on clearance for $4.50 a yard.  Here I am channeling my 'inner-Hildi' (remember Trading Spaces?) and upholstering for the first time. Never mind that it's only a small, flat cushion, I felt empowered by that staple gun.

I used white, gloss Krylon to paint the chair. Not fancy.  I probably need to add a coat of some kind of finisher, glaze or something and I'm undecided about whether or not to distress it a little bit.  I'll keep mulling it over for a few more weeks before I tackle the other chair as well.  It's still a work in progress.

Here's the nice 'before and after' shot.  My china-hutch re-do is still probably my favorite furniture makeover, but the chair is definitely a close second. Cost-wise per chair: Chair = $5, primer = $3.50, paint = $3.50, fabric = $2.25 for a total of $14.25. I think I can handle doing the other one.