After Sean built our beautiful farmhouse dining table we waited a while (about a year) before we got any dining room chairs to go with it. When we had our small group over for dinner one night we literally had to bring every other chair in the house into the dining room to have enough seats for people to sit in.
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| This is how is sat for a loooong while :) |
Being as cheap frugal as we are, we scoured the internet for a good deal on chairs. I knew I wanted some white chairs like this post in Country living magazine so, I started looking at Ikea, Target, etc. The absolute cheapest chairs that I found were $50 a piece. That would cost us $400 for 8 chairs, way more than we wanted to pay and they didn't have cushions on them which is nice for a long dinner. Sean and I looked on Craiglist for chairs for months and either the chairs weren't what I was looking for or they were more than I really wanted to pay (especially since I knew I wanted to refinish them). Then, one amazing day Sean found these chairs for 10 bucks a piece! That's right, $80 for 8 dining room chairs. They were in great condition and they had a really neat design and reminded me a lot of my inspiration chairs.
So, we sanded each one down and primed/painted them. We ended up doing 4 coats of paint/primer on each on, which made us really sick of painting chairs but we love the way they turned out. I found some fabric at Fabric World for $4 a yard (and I bought 3 yards to recover the chairs) and added a fun punch of lime green to the room. I think it brightened the room up a lot and Sean loves the pop of color.
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