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 images within the Market itemizing was that these chairs had a really thick, deliberately sloppy, and really textured manufacturing facility end on them, the intent of which was to present them an aged and virtually Previous World look.
I didn’t even discover it after I picked them up or received them residence 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 facility end on them, however there was additionally a collection 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 virtually completely even spacing between them (which is one huge cause I hate these “aged” manufacturing facility finishes).
It wasn’t simply across the backs, nevertheless it was additionally on all 4 sides across the seats.
Fortuitously, there was none of that on the backs of the chairs.
If you realize something about me and my type, you realize 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 some other methodology used to present 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 residing 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 to be able to get these areas smoothed out, nevertheless it labored out simply advantageous. 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 shall 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 so far. They nonetheless want one other fast sanding with 220-grit, after which I can lastly get them painted at this time. However after I introduced them inside final night time, I used to be so excited to see simply how nice they’re already trying (in the event you can look previous the black cloth and previous foam).
I additionally nonetheless have to put the clear coat on the desk, however I really 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 advised you about my candy Cooper and the way I’m fairly positive he missed his calling. I’ve all the time 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 glad. He does this with each one that walks by 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 glad. It’s cute, however the boy positive does sluggish me down. 😀
Anyway, I am making progress, slowly however absolutely. Yesterday after I was working, I received slightly discouraged at how lengthy this room has taken me up to now, and the way a lot I nonetheless must do. However after I sat down at my pc this morning and pulled up the photographs in the beginning of this put up, I used to be really very inspired. I’ve gotten lots executed! 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 many 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 lots executed within the room! I’m glad I went again to these older footage in order that I may remind myself that progress actually is being made.
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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 be taught extra about me right here.
