Kitchen Makeover

I've never taken the time to even attempt to decorate my kitchen until now.  It is very small and I just threw an old table and chairs in there and called it a day.  That quickly became old and it was time to fix it up.

 I started with the 

TABLE:

STEP ONE:

As always, I used my liquid sander deglosser.  The table was in good shape, so it didn't have any spots that needed to be truly sanded.  It just had a previous stain that I didn't want coming through, but I also REALLY did not feel like stripping it.

STEP TWO:

I don't always use primer because, according to the people at Lowe's, you don't have to if you use liquid sander deglosser.  But because this is such a large piece and I really did not want to mess it up, I decided to do a coat of my Kilz primer.

STEP THREE:

I painted the whole thing in a flat white paint from Lowe's.  To be honest, I don't have the name of this white on hand. (WORST BLOGGER EVER.)

Anyways, I pretty much just randomly picked one of the hundreds of shades of white. (Seriously, who know how many shades of WHITE exist?)

Three coats and I was cool with it.  But it was boring and I needed to add another color.  Back to Lowes I go.

STEP FOUR:

I decided to go with a deep red to go over that border on the table.

Three coats later and I was obsessed. 

STEP FIVE:

I sanded and added a little wood stain around it to add some distress.  I was in love.  To finish it off, I used my Miniwax finishing wax.

(naturally I don't have a picture of JUST the table once it was done.)

CHAIRS:

SO NEXT, I looked at those large chairs.  They are bad.  To be honest, I tried painting them and I experimented a lot with them.  Nothing was working.  It was time to look for new chairs.

It took me a while to find what I was looking for.  I wanted something much smaller than what I had, and I really was hoping for some cushions I could recover.  Finally, I found these bad boys on Craigslist.

Everyone who I showed them to looked at them with disgust and could not understand why I would ever want them.

They used to be in a restaurant so I knew they were sturdy chairs.  They just needed some extra love. Plus, because of the shape they were in, the cushions were SO easy to take out and recover.

So,

STEP ONE:

I popped out all the cushions and began to sand my life away.  They were a mess as far as the texture of the surface goes.  I spent hours sanding them to be as smooth as possible.  (There were times while sanding that I was questioning my sanity and asking myself WHY I would ever do this to myself.)

 Then I used my liquid sander deglosser and primer.

STEP TWO:

After the liquid sander deglosser and primer, I painted the chairs the same red as the trim of the table. Things were starting to look up.

I finished them off with my clear finishing wax and they were starting to look like real chairs.. just without cushions.

STEP THREE:

I set out to Hobby Lobby to get my fabric for the cushions.  Truth be told, I found this fabric before I found the chairs and loved it.  I was pumped that I found chairs to recover with it.

How cute is that?  It has all my favorite colors in it- red, blue, green and yellow.  (So, pretty much every color is my favorite color apparently.)

STEP FOUR:

After ripping the leather off of the cushions and discovering the foam mess underneath, it was decided that we needed new foam.  So we ran to Wal-Mart and picked up some one inch foam squares.

All that was left to do now was staple the fabric around the cushions with a staple gun.  Once completed, I was definitely pleased with the outcome!

I threw a burlap runner across the top of the table, and then added this little center piece.

^^All I did there was paint a mason jar with some leftover chalk paint, and tied that burlap-looking string (??) around it.  The flowers are from Hobby Lobby and are made of burlap material.  (Can you tell I'm on a burlap kick?)

Lastly, I added the finishing touches.. curtains, wall decor, etc.

It's still not completely finished in my opinion, but I am pretty happy with this outcome!