More Chairs!

Garbage day is quickly becoming my favorite day of the week.  I was on my way to work a couple of weeks ago when I spotted these twins on the side of the road.  After pulling a quick U-turn, they were mine!  They were dirty beige with metallic gold highlights and had ripped/missing upholstery.  Lovely.

Chairs before.

So the same process goes as always...  remove the old seats (one wasn't even attached to begin with), sand, clean, and paint.  Fergie found the old seat to be a comfortable bed where she could lay and watch me paint.

Fergie!

The challenge with these chairs came in the upholstering of the seats.  One seat didn't have any foam or fabric on it at all.  After a quick trip to the craft store, I  came home with a one inch thick piece of foam ( only $5 after coupon, of course).  I traced the shape of the wood seat onto the foam and cut it out with my fabric scissors.

Foam

Then came the fabric...  I had several scraps of a fabric whose pattern was similar to the shapes of the designs on the back of the chair.  I pulled the gray color from the fabric as my paint color.  But unfortunately, with the small pieces of fabric that I had, if I centered the design on the seat the way I wanted to, it wouldn't cover the whole seat (see right side of photo below).

Ideal pattern placement.

I tried every conceivable way to make the pattern work with the pieces of fabric I had, but eventually I had to settle for Plan B (see photo below).

Final pattern placement.

Although not my first choice, it still looks great on the finished seat!

Finished seat.

And here's the final result...

Chair after.

I had originally planned on selling these chairs, but I am in love with the finished results, and they have somehow found a place in my bedroom.

At home in my bedroom.

Plus, the gray paint on the chairs is a perfect match for the $20 gray quilt I recently "splurged on" from Christmas Tree Shops!

New gray quilt and pillow shams layered under comforter.