Fall Into The Holidays- Bar Stool Makeover

Hi friends, welcome dorsum to the concluding business office of our Fall Into The Holidays series! With the encouragement of our organizer Lisa from kitchens, bedrooms, together with living rooms in shape for the vacation season, and today we're working on ways to larn our dining rooms inwards shape for the holidays.

My projection today isn't officially inwards my Dining Room, but it's dining related! I conduct hold a laid of barstools that I works life on Craigslist several years ago, knowing that they would demand to live spruced upwardly at but about point. See them dorsum at that spot inwards the photograph above? They expect decent from a distance together with yous never really meet all of them, but upwardly unopen they're inwards pretty stone oil shape. Well years later, this serial gave me the motivation I needed to larn it done! Here's the before... again, the worn spots are difficult to meet inwards photos, but trust me, they were rough!

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I tried to acquit upon the knicks together with scratches upwardly this Summer earlier our big photograph shoot, but they weren't accepting whatever of my green acquit upon upwardly products really well. When considering a makeover I ever catch I'd recover the seats, but equally I prepared to practise this projection I realized that the dark "leather" was really inwards decent shape, together with it's definitely a breeze to clean, thence I decided to give-up the ghost along it equally is together with travel amongst but updating it a bit. I also catch I mightiness pigment them when I bought them, but inwards the terminate decided to give-up the ghost along them woods toned.

Before working on the frame, I removed the nailhead trim. I've stripped several pieces of upholstered furniture, together with this tool is by far the best affair I've used to take away staples together with blast heads. Here's my exact one, and here's a similar option. WAY amend than a flathead screwdriver together with pliers!

These chairs had but about serious varnish on them, thence I started past times sanding them down, focusing on smoothing out the scratches, amongst both a palm sander together with past times hand. Although I at to the lowest degree roughed upwardly the entire frame, I didn't completely sand them downwards to bare wood- I didn't conduct hold the time, energy, or want to practise that. I was hoping that hitting the hot spots would larn me by.

Then, I vacuumed together with wiped them downwards proficient together with applied a coat of changing the color of my orangey oak armoire) together with know what works best for me when working amongst it now. I similar to role pieces of an onetime t-shirt, together with moisten a department amongst mineral spirits, thence dip that department into a niggling fleck of the stain. It's thick (like a pudding consistency) thence it doesn't run or soak upwardly into the rag similar normal stain does.

Then I travel inwards small-scale sections rubbing the woods down. Diluting it amongst mineral spirits makes it become on together with spread out easier, together with it keeps the stain from becoming sticky. Here's a chair after i coat-

I similar gel stain because i of the benefits is that yous tin give the sack become over pre-existing finishes amongst but a fleck a sanding earlier hand. Here's the chair after ii coats. They turned out a niggling darker than I originally wanted, but I already had this color on manus thence I but used it. I'm non certain what sort of woods these were, but yous tin give the sack meet a few places where it did non bring the stain evenly. Part of that could live due to the wood, together with business office is due to me non sanding off all of the master finish. It doesn't bother me plenty to wishing I would conduct hold sanded more! It all blends inwards pretty good together.

Another practise goodness of gel stain is that yous don't really demand a top coat, but I gave them a quick spray amongst satin poly to destination them off. It gave them but the tiniest amount of sheen (without existence shiny) instead of a apartment finish.

Now, to supervene upon the nailhead trim, I catch of adding a cloth skirt around the edge. But again, for this projection I didn't conduct hold the fourth dimension or want to brand those. I remembered seeing a pleated ruffle cut past times the yard at Hobby Lobby, though, thence I catch that mightiness travel to add together a niggling especial together with encompass upwardly the staples around the spot material. Unfortunately, they didn't conduct hold black. They did conduct hold white, though, thence after no other options panned out, I decided to examine to dye the white.

I went through the procedure on my Instastories yesterday, but basically my starting fourth dimension endeavor left me amongst a deep charcoal instead of truthful black. I started out using but about dark dye I had on hand, which was for 100% cotton fiber fabric. The cut was a poly/cotton blend, thence that's why it wasn't fully accepting the dye. I ran to larn a dissimilar formula for synthetic fabrics together with tried again. It helped, but yet wasn't genuinely black. I was out of options thence I decided to role it anyway. However, it needed to live pressed, together with equally I did information technology TURNED BLACK!!! At starting fourth dimension I catch it was the oestrus making it discolored, but equally it cooled the color never changed dorsum to gray. I don't know if the oestrus laid the color or altered the cloth or what... but I didn't aid at that point! Can yous say this wasn't my favorite project? ;)

Ok, amongst (practically) dark cut create to go, I stapled it around the border of the seat.

Then, to encompass upwardly those staples I used a ribbon cut together with but hot glued it to the top of the ruffle cut (not really on the leather seat). I had planned to role a manifestly dark gimp that I bought, but them came across this striped ribbon at JoAnn's together with catch a niggling color variation mightiness live better.

I similar the niggling extra especial together with Definition the striped cut added. So hither they are all finished!

(By the way, that's the around wonderful candle! It's tiny together with it fills my entire living surface area amongst the scent!)

I'll fully acknowledge the woods tones didn't plough out perfectly, but they're agency amend than they were together with they're proficient plenty for now. I'm yet on the hunt for novel barstools, but until I come upwardly across the correct ones these volition practise inwards the meantime.