Mismatched Dining

I love the look of a mismatched dining set.  Don't you?

 

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I've been planning to paint my dining set for about a year.  I decided last Summer that I'd like to rid myself of the ugly blond wood, but it was just too hot out.  I knew Winter would be too cold, but Spring, I decided would be the perfect time for it.  

The look I wanted would require me to sand everything down and restain in a darker color.  I wanted a dark stain underneath with an off white paint on top.  Then I planned to attack everything with a sander to shabby up things.  The reality was that it seemed like an awful lot of work and frankly, I just didn't want to deal with all of that.

I finally decided on using thrifted mismatched chairs, which would already have a dark stain.  All I'd have to do is sand down the imperfections and then paint.  I already had one chair in the garage, which I'd thrifted last Summer.  All I needed were five more.  

I seriously thought it would take F-O-R-E-V-E-R for me to find five chairs that would be perfect for the look I was going for.  I couldn't have been more wrong.  I found my five chairs in less than a month, without actually going out to look them specifically.  I thrift about three times a week and whenever I was out, I'd go over and take a peek at the furniture.  

All of my chairs, including the one from last Summer, which was the most expensive @ $7, cost just under $25.

Meet the girls:

 

my favorite @ $1

 

$1

 last piece of the puzzle @ $5

first piece @ $7

$5

$5.50

I'm expecting this project to take awhile.  I'm planning to start prepping the chairs this week, or I was until yesterday before I started feeling sick.  I'm hoping this is just a small cold or, even better, allergies.  Wait...  did I just say that???  

Anyway, I'll be prepping first and then Charles will paint them with our NEW Wagner paint sprayer (YES!!)  I've still got to choose the upholstery fabric and then the ones that need it, will be sent off for reupholstering.  Charles and I decided that it'd be best to have them done professionally instead of me trying to wrangle everything into place.  I'll be making chair pads for the two chairs that have hard bottoms (ha ha).  

One last thing before I head back to bed.  The sconce wall is almost finished.  I had a minor setback on Sunday when a heavy one up top fell and knocked all except for two sconces off.  Luckily, only one broke.  Since that one left an empty space and I decided I didn't like two of the wood sconces, we're supplementing with some ornate picture frames.  I can't wait to have it done because it's going to be beautiful!  Fingers crossed that my next post will be the reveal.