This was a project that began in May during the Spring tag sale season. I collected eight chairs for about $40 total. I’ve checked around and while tag sales and flea markets have the best prices on mismatched dining room or desk chairs, Goodwill is another great source and they run about $8 to $12 a chair. A few of the chairs needed a little glue and a good scrub. Once they were completely dry, we sanded them a little and then we (I use this term loosely, I mean my husband) used our Wagner Paint Sprayer to paint the chairs. In a few hours we had eight chairs ready to add to our DIY Farm Table. (More on that later). We already owned the paint sprayer from a previous project, but I have to say it’s the best $100 bucks we’ve spent. The guy at the Home Depot paint counter suggested we add floetrol to the paint and this made a huge difference as well.
Every project starts with a little inspiration. We knew we wanted to build a table and add chairs to use on our patio for dinner parties. The patio is made from blue-stone. We have a stone wall and steps leading to our backyard and so we took “colors” from the stone to create a look that would blend with the natural surroundings, but still have an impact. I’m going to talk more about the table my husband made using Hairpin Legs in a later post, but for the chair color we used a color Farrow & Ball calls “London Stone.” We used Behr paint from Home Depot, but to narrow down the color choices I consulted my F& B paint deck which made it a whole lot easier. Instead of selecting from hundreds of tan or stone colored paint chips, I selected from about eight.
We are ready for fall and outdoor dinner parties!
Love them! Great idea!!
Gorgeous and something I will definitely be trying at home!
The whole idea of collecting tag sale chairs and painting them white to go around the handmade table by your husband is brilliant! Each chair has such great style!
Can’t wait to hear more about your fall backyard dinner party!
They look beautiful and I am sure the dinner parties will be wonderful!
Your backyard party will be fabulous with your new table and chairs! I love it all!!
I can’t believe what you paid!!! Looks awesome.
I love Goodwill! You can find so many great things there. My main goal when I go to a Goodwill is to find blue and white. I’ve found several good pieces at a steal. I try to go to the Goodwill in the nicer parts of town, with hopes that I will score some good pieces!
Great idea and what a lovely color! Beautiful job, Annie (and the Mr.) xo
These look fantastic!! You never disappoint with your inspirational ideas…and why does almost anything painted black or white look just so darn good? Your backyard is truly the perfect backdrop for all this loveliness! (Love the fact that you and your husband did it together too).
i adore this annie. i really adore everything you do! where do you store the chairs when not in use? i’d love to do this but we don’t have a garage so storage would be an issue. so so pretty! x
You are too kind Janet! We store them in the basement. They do take up a lot of space I will admit, but currently we have the space so it’s ok. There are better “extra chair” solutions than these! Ones that stack or at least fold.