Have a Seat, Stay Awhile:Thrift Chair Makeover

Yes, dearies the living room makeover continues! I have had my little pea-pickin heart set on adding a chair to the side of our TV dresser to help dress it up a bit. 
I wouldn't exactly say it was love at first sight when I stumbled upon this grungy little chair at a local thrift store.
But there is always hope, right?
I was kinda of diggen the bamboo inspired frame & I knew some new fabric would help breathe some life back into this old cranky lady. Plus, it was only $9.
I mean nowadays you can barely buy lunch for that amount.
So after I hit up the fabric store it was time to whip out the screw driver, upholstery staple gun, & spray paint. Oh, Catalina Mist how I heart you.

An hour later I had a whole new chair!
To help scale back on the blue in this room{I may be going a bit overboard with the blue BUT it's my favorite color!} I thought it would be puuurrty to add this inexpensive ruffle, brown pillow I found for $7 buckaroos. Of course the hubby asked why
 "the pillow looked like a bad, ruffle tuxedo shirt from the 70's?"
 I, on the other hand, wonder why we don't own a dog house for him to sleep in tonight?
And to save yourself the annoying task of scrolling, here it is once again.
Cranky old lady before & after the new dentures.

 So what fun things have you scored at the thrift store lately?

26 comments

  1. So amazing what spray paint can do! I happen to love the pillow...tuxedo reminders or not!

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  2. Wow what an improvement! Good job. Love the color and how it looks on the bamboo backing of the chair!

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  3. What a beautiful chair! I almost bought that identical fabric yesterday for a chair that I'm recovering. It looks fantastic with your chair! Megan

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  4. Haha, I love that pillow! Of course, I think those suits from the 70's were highly underrated too, so I don't know what that says about me ;-)

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  5. Soooo impressive!! I would never have even known that was the same chair as the before. Spray paint rocks

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  6. What a transformation - I love that color! We're moving in 2 weeks so all of my basement projects -including a chair to redo - just went to the curb. Bummer.

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  7. I love that color so much too! I keep picking up random frames or vases around my house and painting them with it. Lol that chair looks so good! Great improvement! :)

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  8. love the refurbishing of the chair!! love the color selection, now you are making me want to redo a chair

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  9. Wow! I love the colors!! Beautiful pillow!

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  10. The chair looks fantastic Jen! Going overboard with blue is better than gray right? Ahem.

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  11. Beautiful job! Love the colors! What an amazing difference.
    ♥♥♥
    Sue

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  12. OMG! How great is this chair?! I love the style and color you chose! Hope you have a great week. Come enter my giveaway going on.
    http://alivedinhome.blogspot.com/2012/06/its-giveaway-time.html

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  13. Love the fabric you chose to recover the seat of the chair! The spraypaint color is great too.

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  14. It's beautiful! I love the bones of the chair itself, and you picked a great fabric and paint cover to remake it with! :) p.s. I found you via the Show & Share party at Southern Lovely :)

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  15. It looks so great and I love that fabric!! Thanks for sharing and I am a new follower!
    Hope you had a great day!
    Michelle
    www.delicateconstruction.com

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  16. the colors are fantastic! great transformation

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  17. Oh I love the color and the fabric! Would love to have you link up at our party.

    http://www.blissful55.com/2012/06/fab-not-drab-friday_21.html

    Jen

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  18. Wow this all chairs are looks very beautiful in garden. This all chairs color, design and also patterns are looks very beautiful.

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  19. Thank you for sharing at Someday Crafts Whatever Goes Wednesday. We will be featuring your project tomorrow on our blog. Please stop back in and grab a Featured at Someday Crafts button for your blog. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  20. I am inviting you to my blog hop:
    http://juliejewels1.blogspot.com/2012/06/show-your-stuff-30-redid-no-fail.html

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  21. I am always amazed at what a little spray paint can do = love the color and fabric you chose!

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  22. Very cute!!! And I love that color of spray paint!

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  23. Oh wow! Such a beautiful transformation =) Love it! The fabric and spray paint compliment each other perfectly!

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  24. i love the new color and the fabric =D very inspiring, I'm thinking baby pink for me xx

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  25. Jennifer!!! I LOVE the chair and you already know I love that fabric. Your chair turned out great!!!

    xoxo
    Denyse
    glitterglueandpaint@gmail.com

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  26. Jennifer!!! I LOVE the chair and you already know I love that fabric. Your chair turned out great!!!

    xoxo
    Denyse
    glitterglueandpaint@gmail.com

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