A New Project: DIY Furniture Painting

Last night, Steven and I decided that it was about time that we buy a kitchen table! After nearly two months of having nightly pow-wows, it is time for us to join the civilized world. A couple of weeks ago I saw a small square table at a consignment shop in Salt Lake City. Hopefully, it will still be there next week so that we can buy it! That just leaves us with the problem of somewhere to sit. Lucky for us, we acquired chairs along with purchase last year. Unlucky for us, these chairs desperately need some love, aka a new stain and/or paint job. With all of the excitement and popularity of DIY projects, I decided that I would do this by myself!

Over the course of the next two weeks, I plan to sand down two of these chairs to their original wood grain, prime them, and paint them with a thin coat of light dull red paint. So far, I have spent time doing then pegs that a power sander can't reach. (I will be borrowing my father's power sander to do the larger surfaces.) I didn't realize how much effort, how much work it is to sand off primer and stain from previous jobs! I am using "frugal girl's" advice as I go through my project, in hopes that it turns out perfectly!

I am excited to see how these turn out. I hope that we will be able to have the cute little kitchen we (I) have dreamed about having!