Yipee! Our Kleinanzeigen-stalking paid off again!
We scored a fabulous 1960′s dinette set for a mere €10!
Boo! The chair fabric was itchy carpeting & had a definite vintage-reek to it…and the table top had seen it’s fair share of coasterless glasses & gouge-y cutlery…
…with a bit of creativity, funky fabric & chalkboard paint we gave it a groovy new life!
The chairs were a bit of a challenge as we not only had to remove the seats but these beauties also had double-sided upholstered backs! With baited breath we pried off the sides as carefully as possible to take out the chair backs & then freakishly easily removed the seats…
We then ripped off the rank old fabric, gave the existing upholstery foam a thorough cleaning & de-stinking, re-covered it all with our awesome new fabric & put the chairs back together…
Gorgeous!
Next up: the lovely legged but grotty-topped table
Hubby sanded the crap out of it & then I gave it 4 coats of chalkboard paint…
The chalkboard table top is wicked fun!
I am totally smitten with our new chairs!
Pretty groovy eh?
Cool! I’m restoring a dining set too, but in my case progress is torturously slow and I bet the outcome will be less funky than yours!
Beautiful! And so fun!!!
get out, that is so frickin’ awesome! i love those chairs! you manage to snag the best second-hand finds ever! just a curiosity, does the chalkboard paint get stained if oily foods fall on it?
we’ve never had stain-y problems with any of our chalkboard paint covered furnishings (& we’ve done a lot of ‘em!) however, I have found that a surface absolutely must be sanded before painting otherwise the chalkboard paint scratches off with the first scribble of chalk…