Dining Room chairs from Blah to Beautimous!

I've been slacking on the home adventures because of everything that is going on in my life right now.  I pretty much work 3 jobs and don't have a free second to do anything let alone re-upholster 7 dining room chairs, BUT i made it happen last night.  It was my Monday night football project.  Clarification, the project I do on Monday night while my husband flips back and forth between 5 different football games.  I've been wanting to do this for the last 5 months I've lived in this house, so I'm so excited it's done.  I bought way to much fabric which I am now thankful for. If anyone spills on the new seats or if I get sick of the fabric I'll just switch it up.  All I did was cut out a piece about the shape of the chair and hot glue gunned my way to some pretty cute dining room chairs.  They ended up perfectly mismatched and I only burned myself 5 times.  Whoopi!

DIY TV Stand

My extremely hot but not so furniture savvy husband is obsessed with this ugly corner coffee table he had in the house before I moved in and took over.  My plan was to be sneaky and sell it while he was in Joplin, MO helping the tornado victims.  Before he left he threatened me with my life if the coffee table was not in the house when he got back.  There for I moved it to the garage, because the garage is still considered the house, right?  It was a very useful drawer stand while working on the project below.  I got this dresser/ TV stand at a garage sale for $35.  I'm thinking I should have bargained down from that considering the base is in bad shape as you can see below, but other than that it was in good condition.  I forgot to take a before pick, which totally sucks because that's what makes these things so great.   It pretty much was your basic medium brown stained wood to begin with.  And the sanding begins...



And then the priming, painting, and glazing... (but look at my cute wallpaper in the background. Thank you Beth Skidmore)

So I spent more on these cute knobs from anthropology then on the whole TV stand, but totally worth it!

Another home adventure!  I promise I do more than just decorate my house.  Okay maybe that's a lie.  At this point in my life I feel like it's all I do, but I like it!  So, I found this little number at the DI for $10 bucks.  I loved the metal pieces and detailing on the legs and thought it would be a perfect coffee table for my living room.

I painted it the color of cement using a brush.

Husband comment: "I don't get it.  Wood isn't supposed to be gray."

I glazed it with a black glaze and when I wiped the glaze off it started pulling the paint off in places.  Remember how I mentioned I don't know what I'm doing.  Well let's pause for a moment to do a quick Q&A. 

Q: Christy did you sand your piece before you started? 

A: Nope 

Q: Christy did you prime your table before you painted it? 

A: Sure didn't 

 Although it doesn't look pretty in the garage I ended up loving this piece.  I love the shabby chic look I ended up with as a result of doing it all wrong. :)  I'll have to take a pick of it in my living room so you can see how cute it actually is.  Best of all I think my husband actually likes it!



So when I started blogging I was so intrigued by all these women who are so crafty and good at decorating their cute homes!  I moved into a beautiful house with absolutely no decor.  I needed a place to start.  I read some blogs for inspiration and headed to the DI.  I found this chair for $25 and thought to myself, I definitely don't think I can do this, but I sure am going to try.  After 4 trips to Hobby Lobby, 10 hours, and a lot of frustration I managed a decent re upholstery job.  I'll do better next time I promise.  I just made it up as I went along so I would look at a more experienced blog if you want to try this for yourself, but here goes....

First I sprayed the wood legs white...

 Proof of Purchase...

Tearing off the ugly blue fabric...

Gizmo already loves this chair!

I started from the bottom up, because.... I have no idea why. That's just the way I did it.

The arms were a b-word to figure out.  I finally managed a pretty cool twisty thing.

Why did I pick the curvy chair for my first project?  Almost gave up at this point, but pushed through.

Hallefrickenlujah... the chair is reupholstered

 What do I do about this?  Hobby Lobby here I come...

 Black lace is what I do with that!

 Husband finished product comment: "Oh it's your slut chair."

(explanation- i guess the black lace turned it into a slut chair-so funny!)

Of course Gizmo loves this white chair and has already gotten dirt all over one of the arms.  Now there's a blue Utah jazz blanket permanently draped over the seat and arms which ruins any attempt at decorating this room.  I need to find a cute throw to go there instead.  Dang Gizmo!