Reupholstering fun!

I've been wanting to try reupholstering for a long time, so when the organization I work for stacked up some old junky furniture to send off to Goodwill, I decided to start off easy. The furniture was sturdy, so I snagged two of the chairs they were giving away to use as the header and footer for our small table when we have extra company over, and went to work. 

Before:

It took me a few weeks to finally start on them, because I just couldn't find the perfect fabric, but I decided that I could always recover them later, and snagged a simple blue and white patterned fabric that coordinated with our decor.  

(Ultimately I think I want to use this one, but I was too impatient to order it, so maybe next year? :))

                                      
We started off by spray-painting them white. The wood was beat up and didn't coordinate with any of the other woods we have in our house. Plus, white is versatile and makes me so happy. :)

 

Then, we recovered them. 6 hours, several Harry Potter chapters, 5 gazillion staples, and several blisters later, we had this:

 Nathan screwed the seats back into the frames....

And we have our new chairs!! Here's the corner where they sit :) 

Yay!

Now on to project number two -- moving to our new little rental house next month! Whoo-hoo!!