bar stool rescue
The week we first moved into our house there was a verge collection. On one of his 6billion-Super-Awesome-help-us-move-trailer-trips my Dad found 3 bar stools on the side of the road. They used to look like this:
Bar stool - roadside find
They were actually worse than this, legs and support bars had fallen off completely, but it was all glued back together by my hubby and Dad before I could blink.
We had never had a breakfast bar before and so we didn’t own any stools. I think the boys were so tired from all the moving they were dying for somewhere to sit. Poor things had to glue their own stools!
Well, they stayed like this for quite some time, secure but not pretty.
new foam - Clarke Rubber, Fabric - Ikea
Finally sick of the dogy look of them I resolved to redo them.
I’m trying to have some pops of yellow in my kitchen for a bit of happiness and fun and thought the bar stools would be a good place to ‘pop some yellow!’
I found some yellow and grey stripe fabric at ikea, could it be more perfect, or better priced? Plus it ties into my grey bench tops perfectly. I then resisited the urge to spray paint the legs yellow and got some white spray paint. I finally went to Clarke Rubber and got them to cut some new foam to size for the top.
Then I snapped my fingers (hahahah)…ok I fought with my nail gun, sewed up a storm and several sheets of sandpaper and cans of spray paint later….
Ta Da…..
Yellow and white upholstered kitchen bar stools
refinished yellow and white bar stools
I’m loving how happy they are and how comfy the new cushions are! I wish I’d bought more of that fabric though, there’s none left at my ikea!
Yellow in the kitchen
Tags: DIY upholstery, kerbside find, refinished bar stools, reupholster bar stools, spray paint stools, yellow and grey kitchen, yellow and white bar stools, yellow kitchen
