Chair Redo: Yellow, Black & White

Hi Everyone! 

Hope you are having a GREAT 4th of July weekend!! I have been trying to get things organized today so that I can have a work-free day tomorrow! But I wanted to quickly show you a chair I redid this week! I'm so in love with it! 

It might be a little premature because I have literally no yellow in my house. But we are in the "planning" stages of redoing our spare bedroom and it is going to be gray, black, white & yellow. I've always loved yellow so I'm so excited to be able to incorporate it. It's a slow process, because if you remember, my house is entirely in neutrals. I am definitely working on being more of a bold decorator. Anyway, here's the "before" of a chair I found for $6 at a garage sale! I was so in love, I had to buy it...despite how dirty & gross it was. 

 If you're a coca-cola decorator, I'm sorry... but this just had to go. 

 First, I took out the disgusting screws at the bottom, cut myself in the process, and made sure I was up-to-date on my tetanus. Then I remembered... I'm a nurse and am up-to-date on everything under the sun, so back to the project. 

 It took me about 45 minutes to scrub this baby... seriously, who keeps a chair that dirty and sticky? My dog wasn't even bothering to sniff it, so you know it's bad. 

 Once I ripped out about 9,000 staples, I was left with this. I cut a piece of this black & white upholstery fabric to fit around it. The fabric is from Joann and I got it when ours relocated, so 90% off plus 33% off.... yep, it was under $1/yard. I think I got about 5 yards so I'll be using more of it in the new spare. 

 I pulled the fabric tight & put one staple in each side. Then I went around, folding about every 1 1/2 inches, until I was all the way around. 

 Now for the spray painting job. My husband kept the box that our TV came in for me to spray paint in... how kind of him :) First I put a light coat of primer over it. Then I used about an entire can of Rustoleum's Sun Yellow. But most of it was used painting the box because it's really hard to get all those little nooks & cranny's in rot-iron furniture! Talk about a pain in the you-know-what. 

 {whoops. apparently i missed the step of taking a picture! just imagine a giant cloud of yellow spray paint filling the entire garage! yep, that's all it was.}

 And finished! I love it! Serious motivation to start the spare! 

 This picture is the most accurate of the yellow color. 

 And because I just love a good before & after! 

Hope you enjoy! I can't wait to show it to you in our new room! I really need to get on that! Anyone have any good pictures of gray rooms with white board & batten? Once we finally pick our gray paint color, it's on!


Hanging out at these fab parties this weekend:
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