Happy {almost} Friday!

I am oh so excited to FINALLY share my dining chair makeover with you all today!!!









You see this project, much like it’s partner in crime – my kitchen table makeover, has taken SO much longer than I had originally intended.

There isn’t really much of a story here to be honest. I wasn’t a huge fan of how dark my dining chairs were so, I hauled the chairs down to the garage and removed the dingy old seat cushions by taking out a few screws. I painted the chairs with my favorite Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in White. Y’all know I love this stuff SO much that I just can’t help but shout it from the rooftops! I probably could should have used a coat of primer to start, not because this fabulous chalk paint needs it, but because I could have saved myself wasting a coat of the more expensive Annie Sloan, not to mention the week I had to wait for a new can of it to come in the mail one chair into my third coat. Ah well, you live, you learn right?

I suppose that unplanned wait gave me a chance to take my time with recovering the chair cushions so I could really make sure to get things right. Luckily, I had planned ahead enough to not only have the fabric ordered, but to have even picked it up from our shipping outlet across the border – have I ever told you how much I LOVE living so close to the States? I chose to use an outdoor fabric to make the cushions as durable to messy toddlers (and husbands) as possible. I was SO tempted to choose something bright and fun and full of personality, but because I’m still not sure what I want to do yet on this main floor, I thought it best to play it safe and went with this outdoor linen fabric. I did a bit of researching online & the whole process of recovering the cushions actually looked pretty simple, so I grabbed my staple gun and got to work.

Turns out I was right about one thing, there wasn’t much to recovering the chairs at all and getting the job done right took only a couple of hours! This part of my chair project proved to be much easier than I had expected, which, let’s face it, NEVER EVER happens! I was sure to snap some photos of the process to walk you through the steps.





I started by cutting a rough square of fabric leaving about 5″ of fabric around the entire outside of the cushion – this sounds like a lot of waste (and it is I suppose), but it was really helpful in giving me a good enough grip to pull the fabric tight on all sides. I started by making sure my chair cushion was centered & straight on the fabric – if you are working with a patterned fabric, be sure to pay close attention to where things will fall on the seat, since mine was more boring plain, I really just had to make sure it was straight. I started by putting one staple in the centre of the first side and then pulling the fabric fairly tight & fastening the opposite side. I continued this process with the last two sides.





After punching a staple into the center of all four sides (and double checking that all looked well on the top of the cushion), I simply started stapling the fabric tight across all of the edges. I worked at pulling the fabric tight and fastening on opposite sides until I had all of the edges stapled about an inch in from each corner. To finish up the corners, I simply folded the fabric like I would wrapping a gift and stapled it down as I went. I still can’t believe how simple and easy this all was!

Here’s a quick before and after shot to give you an idea of the drastic change – goodbye ugly pinkish-beige seats, hello greige seats! Okay, so it doesn’t look that drastic to you all, but trust me, they are SO much brighter! Plus, no stains!!!





One week & one more painstakingly tedious coat of paint later and I was ready to put it all back together. I parked myself in front of the TV, plugged in a Friends marathon and got to work refastening the seat cushions & rubbing in a coat of Annie Sloan’s Clear Furniture Wax over the chalk paint to protect everything.

FINALLY, here’s how it all came together …





At least it was all TOTALLY worth it, am I right? I just {love} how much lighter and brighter our kitchen is!





Do you have any furniture that could use some brightening up in your home? What’s holding you back from taking the plunge?

Wishing you all SUCH a wonderful Thursday!!!







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