Y’all, I’m nonetheless engaged on the eating room chairs makeover. To be clear, I don’t even have two of the materials that I plan to make use of on the chairs but. I haven’t even ordered them. However I had positively anticipated to have the chairs stripped, sanded, primed, and painted by now. As a reminder, I discovered these chairs on Fb Market, and the value was actually affordable. The chairs are heavy and really sturdy, so the truth that not one of the chairs wanted repairs earlier than I gave them a makeover was nice.
However what I couldn’t see on photographs within the Market itemizing was that these chairs had a really thick, deliberately sloppy, and really textured manufacturing unit end on them, the intent of which was to provide them an aged and nearly Previous World look.
I didn’t even discover it after I picked them up or obtained them house and into the eating room. I didn’t even discover it till I began sanding them.
After which after I began sanding them, I observed one thing else. Not solely was there a thick, sloppy, textured manufacturing unit end on them, however there was additionally a sequence of intentional dents that had been put into the trim throughout the chair backs and seats.
You possibly can see the areas the place my sander didn’t even contact the end across the edge as a result of it was like somebody took a hammer and put a dent into the wooden to make it look aged and worn. Once more, it’s that intentional Previous World look, and you may inform it’s intentional due to the just about completely even spacing between them (which is one huge purpose I hate these “aged” manufacturing unit finishes).
It wasn’t simply across the backs, but it surely was additionally on all 4 sides across the seats.
Thankfully, there was none of that on the backs of the chairs.
If you recognize something about me and my fashion, you recognize I don’t like aged finishes. I don’t like my furnishings to look aged, antiqued, or Previous World. I don’t like dents, dings, scratches, or another methodology used to provide furnishings an intentional aged look. I like my painted finishes to look new, contemporary, and clear.
Evidently, these chairs ended up being much more difficult than I had anticipated after I purchased them. Initially, I weighed the choice of utilizing a solvent-base wooden filler to fill in all of these dings and dents, however that appeared far more labor-intensive than what I wished to do. Then I attempted to speak myself into simply ignoring these dents (since all of the chairs had been already sanded sufficient for primer) and dwelling with them like that. However I simply couldn’t do it.
So I ended up re-sanding all of those chairs once more, and this time I began with 80-grit sanding discs on my sander and I sanded out all of these dents. I used to be a bit nervous about how a lot I needed to take off as a way to get these areas smoothed out, but it surely labored out simply wonderful. After all, as soon as I had all of them sanded out with the 80-grit sandpaper, I had to return and sand the once more with 220-grit. Lastly, by 7:00 yesterday night, they had been prepared for primer.
I simply need to remind you that the froth and cloth that I left on the chairs might be changed. I simply left that on there to guard the thick cardboard that helps the chair backs as a result of I didn’t need to take away that cardboard and take an opportunity on ruining it, and I didn’t need to get paint on it.
In order that’s so far as I’ve gotten, and that’s why these chairs have taken so lengthy to get thus far. They nonetheless want one other fast sanding with 220-grit, after which I can lastly get them painted right this moment. However after I introduced them inside final evening, I used to be so excited to see simply how nice they’re already wanting (in the event you can look previous the black cloth and previous foam).
I additionally nonetheless must put the clear coat on the desk, however I like seeing how that is all coming collectively.
I additionally wished to share these footage as a result of I believed y’all would get a kick out of them. I don’t know if I’ve ever informed you about my candy Cooper and the way I’m fairly positive he missed his calling. I’ve at all times thought that he ought to have been a drug-sniffing canine or a bomb-sniffing canine as a result of he’s obsessive about sniffing.
Any time I carry one thing into the home, I’ve to cease and let him sniff it. After which he’ll proceed sniffing till he’s happy. He does this with each one that walks by means of the door, each merchandise I carry into the home, and he sniffs me repeatedly all through the day any time I stand nonetheless or sit down. So after I introduced the chairs in, he began his routine, sniffing each chair till he was happy. It’s cute, however the boy positive does gradual me down. 😀
Anyway, I’m making progress, slowly however absolutely. Yesterday after I was working, I obtained a bit of discouraged at how lengthy this room has taken me thus far, and the way a lot I nonetheless must do. However after I sat down at my pc this morning and pulled up the photographs at first of this submit, I used to be truly very inspired. I’ve gotten so much performed! I eliminated the cabinets, repaired the partitions, and painted the partitions with my new favourite impartial wall coloration. I’ve sanded and painted the eating desk. I’ve gotten the rug and a lot of the muddle out of the room. I’ve made a chandelier. And I’ve stripped, sanded, and primed the chairs. So I actually have gotten so much performed within the room! I’m glad I went again to these older footage in order that I might remind myself that progress actually is being made.
Extra About Our Breakfast Room
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can study extra about me right here.
