My sister Kelly has graciously agreed to guest post today about her furniture redo. She is our family traveler, a mighty fierce businesswoman, and always up for fun. Kelly is slowly adjusting to Chicago winters by taking extended tropical vacations.
Aunt Kelly & Caroline at our sister Amanda’s wedding
Hi, I’m Jennifer’s sister Kelly. I am thrilled to write my first ever blog post and share with you my little bit of creativity. To set things straight, Jennifer is the creative one, I didn’t inherit 1/10th of her DIY, artistic abilities. However, when you are trying to find ways to not constantly spend (bleed!) money, but improve your house at the same time, you have to get creative.
I inherited this Adirondack chair a couple of years ago and it has just sat on my patio for the last couple of years.
I was ready to throw it out and go purchase new furniture, however, given that I live in Chicago and we frankly don’t have that long of a summer to use outdoor furniture, I decided to give it a shot to see if I could re-purpose it.
- I sanded all of the old paint chips off the chair just using sandpaper sheets
- I decided to use some left over blue and purple paint samples I had laying around from another project. I had great aspirations of painting lots of different stripes, but then realized paint samples just don’t really contain all that much paint!
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I let the first coat dry overnight and then painted a second coat which actually ended up being a different color (hey, I ran out of the first sample, I was trying not to spend much money!)
- The final step was to add a coat of polyurethane to seal the paint and hope that maybe it will survive one Chicago winter
The only money I spent was for the container of polyurethane which was about $8. A new Adirondack chair costs well over $100, so I feel pretty good about my DIY project.
Job well done Kelly! I am so impressed that you started and finished a project in one weekend. Unheard of around here.
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