From 80's Blah To Vintage Wow!
by
Caroline
(IC: blogger)
$50.00
Medium
Today I’m going to show you my dining room chairs and how I re-did them. I paid $40.00 for 4 chairs. They are really heavy and quality made. You may think a ten dollar chair isn’t anything you would like- but what do you think of these
I LOVED all the detail! I know you wood purists will cringe when I say that my plan was to paint them and then use an antiquing glaze. But to each his own, right? I knew that all those little nooks and crannies would be great for that treatment.
First I primed all the chairs with spray primer. I asked Hubby to pick up a few cans of spray primer and he brought home gray primer. What? I had never seen gray primer before, but ok.
The original seat covers were just fine for the chairs before I painted them, but they weren’t doing a thing for me afterwards.
Then I mixed a clear glaze with Ebony stain in about a 2:1 ratio and started to brush it on with a brush and immediately began wiping off the excess, leaving the stain in the crevices.
Here are my chairs in the dining room:
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Published February 12th, 2015 9:44 AM
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Connie on Nov 12, 2015You did a great job, I might of been one of those who would have cringed, but they look awesome!
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