New Life for a Vintage Glider and Chairs!
3 Materials
$400
6 Hours
Medium
Last summer we found a vintage glider and 2 chairs for sale on a local social media site for $150. Being a lover of all things vintage, I jumped at the chance to breathe new life in these pieces. They were in good shape with very little rust (the brown is paint over the original green paint).
The transformation is more than we could've hoped for.
Enjoy!
The transformation is more than we could've hoped for.
Enjoy!
The glider is a basket-weave pattern; we took the glider apart and tried to sand it ourselves but it turned out to be a bigger job than we had planned on. We decided to take it to a local shop to be professionally blasted and powder-coated. I believe they charged us about $170 but they did not take out the dent in front (but we did not ask them to so we can't fuss too much).
It took us nearly a year to tackle the chairs as we decided to do them ourselves.
A view of the back of one of the chairs.
We took them apart and sandblasted the pieces individually.
Then we added a couple of coats of primer. (before and after primer)
The end result of the professional job.
Our job: painted and put back together. We purchased primer, paint, and new replacement nuts, bolts, and washers.
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
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I am with the Australian on this one. I now understand a glider is a bench that moves. But this particular one has an incredibly beautiful design that I’ve never seen before. You did a great job on restoring it.
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Lovely I need to do that to my two old chairs They need new life.
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