For a long time, two years to be exact, I had some Goldilocks drama with barstools in my kitchen-dining-mini-office room. The heights were all wrong. After searching every retail and thrift store in the better part of the Chicagoland area, I gave up.
Then one day, as I turned into my alley, behold. Problem solved. Someone had placed these ugly ducklings for Friday pick-up. The upholstery was a hot mess, but the bones, oh, the bones were lovely.
Wrought iron, just as I wanted. The height was dead on, for our slightly too tall counters.
Given how much brown I have going on in kitchen/dining combo room {which is converting soon anyway}, I knew the bronze color had to go. We have cherry cabinets, a chocolate feature wall, and cherry chairs.
By chance, Monkey and I happened upon this at our weekly trip to Michael’s.
Yea. 59 cents. Clearance bins love me.
Here’s the color:
The universe really had me going that day, I happened upon a buttersoft black faux fur remnant for $3.00 at Joann’s. Perfect. My vision was coming alive.
With a little spray paint {mama is pretending these are non-VOC, indulge me here}
and a wee bit of fabric…
transformed.
Now, my homeless home office has more of a diva feeling.
It’s really funny to watch the two-year old pet the chair. Hopefully not with ketchup covered hands.
Plush fabric plus pewter wrought iron, gives a little more glam to my multipurpose room.
Under $5 for two chairs.
Not bad, not bad at all.
So, now I can take the $200+ I would have spent otherwise, and buy shoes.
Yea, me.
Linking up to:
House of Hepworths
Miss Mustard Seed
Funky Junk Interiors
Tatertots and Jello
Southern Lovely
Fantastic! And how much do I love that new photo of you!! Very pretty!
Jo-Anna
That’s so awesome! I love reading a good trash to treasure story when everything comes together so perfectly. Yay you!
Awesome! I love how it turned out.
Such a glam chair, you did a wonderful thrifty make-over I would probably pet the chair too!
Love the new photo(nothing wrong with old one but this one is fab}!
Fantastic job! The stool looks fabulous, love that pewter metal
Love it!
Nice! Great find in the alley! Kinda makes me wish we had alleys here in the burbs to find treasures
Perfect Frenchy stools now! People throw out the nicest things!
Why, thank you Andrea! I couldn’t agree more…{ I also found a wooden play kitchen curbside….} What is wrong with people? They could totally make some coin!
Those chairs are more glamorous than any I’ve seen for sale this season!! The bones are so sophisticated!!!