New Finished Project!

I was working on t his chair for my sister, I didn't get a before picture sadly, but I got some great after photos. We picked this chair up about a month back from a curb alert of Craigslist. I love curb alerts you never know what you are going to find! Anyway it was a chair, it looked to have been sanded, the chair had a seat sitting on it but it wasn't screwed down in any way it was just loose. The seat was covered with this ugly bright blue fabric with tiny little pink flowers embroidered on it, just ugly. Anyway with this chair there was also a chair with broken arms, I haven't started this one yet, but probably will this weekend. :)

The Chair: Free
The Paint: $1 (Dollar store in Kannapolis)
The Fabric: $4 (Garden Ridge's fabric isle)

Total cost of Reagan's new dressing chair: $5

A closeup of the fabric, it's a very cool baroque kind of look, velvety gray, I couldn't iron this fabric so for a bit until it lays flat there will be a crease. But I think it turned out well.

Last Nights Trash Finds

Our trash runs on Thursdays so on Wednesday night there is a treasure trove of goodies for you to find. My sister and I rode around the neighborhood and picked up two kitchen chairs, both sturdy, just need some TLC, an old crib that we are going to turn into a bench, a brass side table which is really interesting looking but the color has GOT to go, we also found a lamp (this was with the crib and the chairs in one location) and it needs a new cord and possibly some glue, we'll know more when we get it cleaned up.

I know I know, but you got to admit, that's a pretty good haul for free! I will definitely post more photos once I get the bench made. We are going to start on that tonight. I hope to have it done by Sunday as I may be doing a cookout if my family wants to come, if not then I will have have a nice bench for ME to sit on at least. :)

The crib/bench will probably be painted green, the table..not so sure yet. And I am going to keep the little kitchen chairs neutral, maybe white or black. Just functional for our living room/rent out room.