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Friday, November 28, 2008

Chair makeover

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. The fact is, I haven't done anything. Well I did paint this chair and it was the project I needed to finish so that I could start making cards and layouts again. I bought this chair and a desk that matched it at a yard sale a long time ago. I paid a whole five dollars for both-great deal right? Well the desk (which was my old sewing desk) was not working for sewing anymore but I thought I would keep the chair since it has a fairly small footprint. I have the computer chair for my sewing desk but wanted a regular chair for stamping. Mainly because I take pictures of my cards in there and I can't hook my gorillapod on the computer chair. So I decided to take this ugly green chair and make it over.


I sanded it *a little* (didn't want to release possible lead dust in the air right? That was my excuse anyway) and repainted it. I think it might have had 5 or 6 coats of paint on it already so the finish was a bit...bumpy. And you could see old paint drips in some places. But I'm not entering it at the county fair or anything and I didn't want to kill myself making it look perfect so I just roughed up the old paint and painted right over it. We had to do a little bit of repair work (note the plain dowel-the old one was missing) but otherwise I did pretty much nothing. So here's the new one-painted green and pink to match my other stuff. The original plan was to paint green in those swirly decorative parts but I was lucky to paint a straight line much less a swirly one so I thought it would save my sanity just to leave it all pink.



I'll probably make a chair pad for it because it's actually not very comfortable.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cute chair. I love the colors. Pink and green and is a favorite combo of mine.

Unknown said...

Super cute!!!! I think it came out great!

fishlips said...

This came out super cute...love the white and green...pretty!!!!!

Louise F NZ said...

This is SO pretty! Way cool!

The Mama Monkey said...

You are so good! I have a difficult time seeing potential in things! This is an amazing transformation!!

thescrapmaster said...

Oh Gale that is so cute! I love pink and green together!

~Samantha

Jennifer Schmidt said...

Great job Gale! That is an adorable chair! You're a great painter :)

Rachel Brumley said...

That chair is so cute. I love the color combination!

Anonymous said...

You did a wonderful job transforming the chair! Love the colors:)

thescrapmaster said...

Ah I totally forgot. .. are you going to challenge us this week :)?

~Samantha

Tlbran said...

OMG! How cute! I think it turned out great and I love those colors. It looks like a princess chair. LOL

Sankari W. said...

Oh my gosh!!! What an awesome chair you have transformed it into!!! Its is seriously just gorgeous - love how you are hand customing all the accents for your awesome work space! totally beautiful gale!!!

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