This is a post I wrote last June, what a difference a year makes! Last year my house was on the market, Grace was graduating from college and we were getting ready to head to Block. I haven’t been writing my blog a lot during Covid. I do miss it and have some posts lined up moving forward, but I have been pretty unmotivated. I was so sick of looking at my own four walls, I couldn’t imagine subjecting you to them too. That is changing with the nicer weather and restrictions lifting, so I hope to bring you all back with new stories and design ideas!
I bought two mis-matched chairs at a tag sale for $30.00. They were in pretty good shape, so I hauled them up to RI to see if they would work there.
 
There was an article in House Beautiful about a homeowner buying two different chairs and painting them the same color to spruce up her entryway. Â She painted them both black with matching pillows and they looked fabulous! Â Lets see if that will work with these two.
 
The main color on our outside deck is navy, so I went with that for the two chairs. Â Rust-oleum 2x covers really well. Â This was a one coat and DONE job. Â It had to be because I only bought four cans of paint…
I started with the bottoms first because I usually miss painting an entire leg or another section that is really obvious.
Flipped over. Â One coat covered the brown chair really well, very happy.
One done, onto the white chair. Â Two cans of spray paint covered the brown chair perfectly. Â The white chair is a little bigger, so I hope I have enough.
DONE! Â I think they look pretty cute. Â I will give them overnight to dry and hope they match the rest of the stuff on my deck.
Not bad! Â The navy coordinates well with the standing umbrella and also the cushions/pillows on the rest of my furniture.
 
I already had the coral cushions and yellow pillows, so I recycled them for this project.
With the paint, this was probably a $100 project all in. Â Both chairs are really comfortable and I figure, if they fall apart, I can throw them away!
Miss Emily, you missed out on some pretty cute chairs!
 
 
Happy Summer!
the wry home