Just Onny's Stuff: A Cheap & Easy Chair Renovation

A quick, easy and CHEAP!!! way to save something from a road trip to the dump, and making it so Pretty!

This guy & his 3 ugly brothers were about to run out of options.. and the dump was calling their names. Mr. Onny suggested I put them on Craigslist and try to sell them.. surely someone is starting out is in need of some chairs. My thoughts.. Um.. I'm thinking I'd have to pay them to come get 'em! Let's just say they've been basking in the Tennessee sunlight for a few.. years. They were in desperate need of some help.

I kept thinking.. maybe I can do something with these.. paint them, I don't know something.. I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do with this thing, and sure I could paint it, but then what? The seat cushions have just plain HAD IT. They're faded, dirty, ... grey.. and just plain eww..

I put on my thinking cap and came up with a plan.

Maybe I can find a fabric in my stash and re-cover the seat! Woohoo! Off I went to get some ideas. I found a really pretty set of four cloth napkins I have had for several years, that just might work! Four chairs, four napkins! Match made in heaven! I searched through my spray paint stash, and I already had a matching color that I loved! Perfect! I can't wait to finish this!

I took the seat cushion and it's rusted screws off, and hit the outdoors with my can of spray paint in hand. Even after just a few sprays, I could tell I was going to love this color and it was already a HUGE improvement. I was running out of daylight, but definitely did not want to leave this project unfinished.

I went searching for my staple gun, and well, it was still in the package, new and unopened. Time to break this puppy in. The Mister thinks I'm nuts..weird, obsessed,.. and I might be :) lol. I stapled away with my fabric and ALOHA! (its a Hawaiian-themed fabric ;)

Is it too cliche to say.. "isn't it amazing what a can of spray paint can do".. ?
Now I have to decide if I wanna keep these guys or sell them and make me some monnay!.. well I can decide after I get them all finished.. so far, just the lonely one is prettied up and the rest are sitting there being jealous. But I saved them from a road trip to the DUMP! Yay!

All you need:
4 Ugly chairs in desperate need - Check.
4 matching cloth napkins you've never used - Check.
Spray paint of a coordinating color - Check.

Tools:
1 screwdriver.. this required a phillips head..
future projects may require the Vodka & OJ version as well..
1 Staple Gun.. brand new in package or used. Either will work.

That's it! Your hands and a few minutes, and you can transform anything!