My parents are always on the lookout for furniture for me and the day my Dad called to tell me he had spotted some dining chairs abandoned my daughter and I jumped into the car and sped to take a look and honestly I was a bit disappointed when I saw them but felt sorry for them and had to bring them home, there were 3 and once I got them home upon further inspection the 3rd one was not worth saving. They sat in my garage for a number of months and then I got the itch to get them out and work on them. My original thought was to sell but once I took a look at them I knew they would be perfect as head chairs at the dining table.
These chairs were so banged up they did not even need a sanding so I just painted on primer, if I have not said this before I have to admit I belong OPA, oops paint anonymous. I make a bee line for every store that sells paint and look at the oops paint and buy colors that would look cool on furniture, the primer I used on this chair was oops at only $1.00 a quart and the finish color in blue-grey was $2.00 a quart. I did splurge as always and paid full price for the poly coat, which I always have on hand and the fabric was $7.99 a yard because it was on sale 60% off at JoAnn's and I did use the whole yard due to the placement of the pattern. Total cost of this project minus the poly $11.00 for 2 new beautiful head chairs at my table. Now we can seat 8 at our table. Next project: since the fabric was so cheap I bought 3 yards so I could make a table runner.
