reviving furniture

First of all how cute is NC getting her second hair cut but first hair "style"? She was soo good for the girl as she shaped her hair into a cute healthy looking "bob" instead of the mess it was before! NC has curls in her hair...I love that about her. My hair is super straight so I love that she has some curl that we can play with!

Now onto the furniture. As I have said in past posts my basement and my sisters basement is quickly filling with furniture that needs TLC. This weekend I was finally able to tackle a few pieces.

So...Andrea bought this super awesome chair from a yard sale and I "stored" it in my living room until she got a house to put it in. It is such a cute chair and I truly hated to part with it and it left a huge hole in my living room that I needed to fill.
So...that hole was quickly filled by this lovely wicker chair that my mom bought me for like $5.00. It is nice but not the same.

So...Joe's mom was cleaning out her parents house and found this chair. She thought it would be a good replacement for Andrea's chair that I miss so much. When I first saw it...I hated it! I thought it was short...ugly and it sat in my basement for months. But last week I decided I wanted to bring it back to life. A little primer and blue paint to match the ceiling and it is a beautiful cheerful chair that I love! It cannot fully replace the wonderful chair that now lives at Andrea's house but I do like it A LOT!!

So...that chair was a fun project but Andrea and I also tackled a huge, long awaited project at her house. A few weeks ago we decided to refinish her dining room table. We first wanted to stain it black...but quickly realized it was super ugly. So we sanded it again and started fresh. We went to the hardware store and picked up {what we thought was} dark brown paint. We got the entire thing painted and realized it was army green!!! IT.WAS.AWFUL. At this point I was thinking I would have to buy her a new dining room set because it was my brilliant idea to paint it. So Saturday we decided to give it one more shot. We bought new dark brown paint and it turned out perfect!!! We have two coats of paint...now all we have to do is distress it a bit, put on some polyurethane, and put the new material on the cushions. I cannot wait to post pictures!

This week I finally hope to paint the bookshelves for the office. Oh there is so much I want to work on...have a good week!