When we moved into our current rental I finally got my dream of having a "formal" dining room and a breakfast area, thus came the problem that I did not have enough chairs. At the time I already had TOO many dining room tables (a total of 4).... so I only needed chairs. So I started searching Craigslist, which I had not purchased furniture on before so I was a bit nervous about the process and what quality of product I might find. I eventually stumbled upon a dining set that a home staging firm was selling for their client for a fabulous deal... I could hardly believe it! Of course, they did not want to sell just the chairs so since it was such a great deal I bought the whole set (table with two extensions and 12 chairs). Larger table than I ever thought of having and more chairs than I needed... but it was gorgeous and exactly what I was looking for so I had to have it and my wonderful boyfriend (now hubby) supported the adventure. Thus we now own 5 dining tables and 18 chairs!
I struggled for quite a while on whether to make the chairs all one color or two sets of 6. I really loved the idea of the black chairs with a classic black toile fabric, but I also wanted my dream of a white shabby chic dining set. I tried to find complimentary fabrics so that I could use all chairs together or separate, but never found quite the right fabrics in my budget (which was small).
As you can see I spray painted 6 chairs off-white and 6 chairs black. I chose totally different fabrics and decided the keep the sets separate. I borrowed a friend's staple gun and learned the art of removing and replacing fabric on chairs. Not too hard, but time consuming on 12 chairs.
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