Our good friend in Nashville hunts estate sales and garage sales for good finds to refurbish and put in one of his 2 antique booths. He knew we were looking for some dining room chairs to replace the original ones that were handed down to us from the 80s (imagine rounded cane back chairs on brass wheels - don't think we don't use them, because we do - without the wheels).
He found 4 Queen Anne chairs ~ all for $40! So, that's $10 a chair.
spray paint (gray primer, black matte & protective gloss) $20
upholstery $32
batting, foam & adhesive $32
chairs $40
=$124 for 4 custom chairs!
Before (however, this one has already been sanded down and glued back together):
Mid (primed):
Painted:
I wanted to finally reveal the progress of these chairs. We are in the midst of recovering the seats. We began to rip off and de-staple the old chair bottoms and we found this:
SO many staples and super old/thick material to muddle through.
So, Luke just decided to build new seat bottoms himself...off to Lowes to get some particle board! Luke cut new bottoms out with a jigsaw. We adhered the foam and then the batting to the board.
Now, off to recovering...
He appears to be super fast.
Luke is a super-husband. Thanks babe!
Hopefully you will get a blog soon of the completed dinning room chairs, the Queen Anne dining bench to match the chairs that I want Luke to build (we already have the materials - just need a table saw). Updates, eh, soon? Depends on Luke :)
