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Thursday, August 16, 2012

My Dining Room!

The much anticipated change in my dining room furniture is COMPLETED! I am very grateful for the hours of help and the skill and knowledge added by my parents to make this project a possibility. 

I spent $80 (Craigslist) on this oak dining room table with 6 chairs:


These 3 barstool chairs came from a neighbor's yard sale, I think it was $10 for all of them. They have been waiting for their makeover for about 2 years.


This little random chair was free... the best price, from our neighbors who we were sad moved far away.
So it is a good memory and a perfect place for our Space Saver baby high chair.


The goal - To make all these pieces of dining furniture match this lovely hutch I purchased (Craigslist) about a year and a half ago. I did not paint this, it was already done.


The process began with many hours of deep cleaning, sanding, replacing spindles (using an extra chair purchased at Goodwill for $1 that matched but was in terrible condition), gluing and overall preparations.

Then, my father used his paint sprayer to spray on a primer coat of white free paint, then a final coat of Clark+Kensington Paint, Southern Plantation color. (Total cost for 2 gallons, $55)

After a few days of drying, my mom and I bravely glazed the table and chairs with a tintable glaze mixed with black acrylic paint. It was messy and slightly stressful because of the speed required to get the right look.

How'd we do?





I'm so glad I took on this project and I'm so grateful for all the support in accomplishing it!

~ Chelsea ~

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks great! I think I have the same dining set in my kitchen! I really want to stain the wood black but am too nervous to take on such a large and time consuming task!!

Meagan Shaw said...

Wow Chels, it looks amazing! I'm so impressed! You did a great job! It makes me want to get crafty! :) Thanks for sharing! Meg.