-Folding Chair Makeover-

I've had this chair for such a long time and cannot remember how or when we got it. I thought I will try and bring it back to live again.

With a little fabric and paint it started to look nice and useful again. This project was a relative quick one and I love the result.

 

So here it is with it's back support missing, the wood is splattered with paint and is faded from exposure to sun.

The old seat canvas has been washed so it could be covered with new fabric. I wanted to reuse it, because it is very sturdy. The new cover will be cotton canvas which is really a paint drop cloth I bought at the hardware store.

The next thing left to do was sew a new back support. For a little bit of girly flair I added a nice crochet lace border.

Then the wooden chair parts have been sanded, primed and painted white. After the paint had dried the seat canvas was replaced and secured with the hardware.

Then all there was left to do was to put the back support on and the new pretty chair was ready. Well as you can see I should have ironed said back support first, but I was so excited about it to be finished that I forgot, but since it just slips of it will be easy to iron it.

 

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-A Found Desk Project-

My dear husband was helping a friend clean out an abandoned barn.
He always keeps an eye out for things I might like or I could refurbish and make new and useful again.

This time he brought home a roll top desk.
Unfortunately the desk is not an antique and after some research I found out that it was sold at one time by Sears. But it's still a nice desk, or it will be when I'm done working on it.

The poor thing is dirty from sitting in that dusty barn for quite some time, has a hole in the back panel and lots of dings and scratches in the wood, but I like the look of it. Especially the little drawers and slots for keeping stationary items. It will fit perfectly into the spot where my makeshift desk sits in my craft room.

Now I just have to figure out what to do with it to make it pretty and give it a new life and use.
I think it will be a nice Before & After project and I will reveal the results in one of my future posts.

Right now it is just sitting in my tiny craft room until I have figured out what to do.

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-Craigslist Hutch-

Quite some time ago I found this old dining room hutch on Craigslist and ended up buying it.

It is solid wood and has been hand crafted by an elderly gentlemen who was a retired cabinet maker.

It came in 2 pieces, is unbelievably heavy and had several layers of  bad paint jobs. One of them seemed to be a dark green at one point.

The hardware did not look so great either. It wasn't original to the piece and just did not look right.

My Table and chairs are mostly black in color so the choice to paint this hutch black was an easy one to make.

For the hinges, drawer and cabinet pulls I chose a contemporary satin nickle look

I think it turned out nice. It was a lot of work and at times frustration, but it sure was worth having a huge hutch with tons of storage for china and silverware.


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