Warning: I like to take pictures of things at angles. So I have been spending way too much time on Facebook Pinterest lately. As a result, I have purchased the below products in an attempt to refinish our dining room/office/sewing room chairs (translation: paint them black). Evidently this can be done with ease using the below products – Liquid Sander and SPRAY PAINT! Moreover, it seems everyone on Pinterest uses spray paint for just about everything. The PIN I found took me to a blog where she used these items to re-do a couple of chairs. She also did some sanding and applied gel stain with a Q-tip for a worn look, but I haven’t decided if I’m going to attempt that part yet. The total on the items below: less than 15 bucks.
Here are the chairs (before). These are old dining room chairs that I’ve used as “work” chairs since 2007, so if I ruin them it’s no biggie. We debated on rolling office type chairs, so if this goes south that’s what we’ll do. Always have a Plan B!
I ordered a couple of yards of the below Waverly fabric (from Joann) to recover the chair cushions. I’m hoping the green matches our desks, and I’m hoping the black will tie in the bulletin board, chairs, etc. I also love the orange, yellow & blue and may do something else with those colors down the road (cover my ironing board?). We’ll see! When I get the fabric I will be able to decide if it is going to be too busy for the chairs or what. If it is, I’ll use it somewhere else and coordinate chair fabric with this. AND….. our hammer, screw driver and mini electric drill have been busy busy busy! Today I FINALLY hung my stabilizer shelf thingy from Michaels!! It only took me 3 months to do this. I am thinking there is enough room to add a tension rod for more stabilizer? I also hung my peg boards (2 out of 3). I need more hooks but am excited to now have my scissors and things close at hand. My Craftsman Tool Chest (former machine stand) houses all of my hoops, so this is my hoop surface (the top of the tool chest) where I “hoop” my items.
And (are you excited yet?)…. we hung my thread!! All of my fabric is housed in the baskets in the adjacent cubby, so I think this is a good place for my thread. I debated painting my thread stands, but for now they are au-naturelle which matches my PJAS Ikea baskets.
Clock, hung – check. Jeff has also agreed he needs a matching bulletin board for over his desk, and luckily open frames are 50% off at Hobby Lobby this week (and I have a 40% off coupon for the corkboard). I think this will balance out this wall and he can hang his golf ball collection on the left wall by his desk. The black thing in the upper right corner is our TV.
I also hung several things in Mallory’s room, closet and bathroom this weekend as well as a few things upstairs in the boys’ domain. The house is starting to feel more homey already! Still lots of work to do and stuff to hang, but this has a definite start!
Below are a few more pictures sent to me by my blog readers, and I hope I got the names right on the pics! The 2 fabric pics are of the same shelf, and I LOVED how organized and pretty it looks!
I believe these are fabric covered canvases, and the thread stands are stained and hang on them. Neat idea!
Ribbon stand – I believe she said her husband made this! It’s amazing what you can do with dowel rods.
Another shot of the fabric. Very cool! Thanks to these ladies who took the time to email me their pictures!
We have several new designs for this week and I hope to get them sampled and listed by Wednesday! Have a great week!!
P.S. On my last post about Mallory’s bedding, I totally forgot to mention that the font I used is Monogram Wizard Plus MASTER CIRCLE which is Alpha Pak 14. This is my #1 girl font for monogramming (3 letter monograms) and well worth the cost of the alpha pak! If you have MWP, you can get this font at Sewingmachine.com. Again, it is well worth the $39.99 for this font CD.
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