{When the Paint Dries......}: 06/01/2013

HGTV Star

Is anyone else as excited for HGTV Star as me? Love this show!! I love seeing what everyone comes up with each week, each designer has their own unique style and I love to see it come out. I was surprised to see Jessie go last night, her worked seemed so strong the first episode. Not sure if its too early to have favorites, right now I'm just liking everyone! :)

Father's Day

Hey Everyone! Hope you enjoyed your weekend and your Father's Day!!

We had a great sunday celebrating with our dads and family:)

My Dad and I at my wedding :)

HGTV Star

Any HGTV star fans out there?

This is one show that i look forward to all year!!

I am a little confused why they changed the name of the show.....

So thoughts on the winner of the first night? Brooks?

I'm totally loving the chandelier in his vignette, the rest i'm just not sure that its my style. I love how he went bold and was daring.

As of now, since there was once one eposide, I would have to say that i'm really liking Abby, Anne, Cris, and Jerabai so far.

By the way, did anyone like Jerabais painting? I know the judges didn't but I sure did!

Dining Room Set Re-do Part 2

In Dining Room Set Re-do Part One I showed you the beautiful dining room that I had found on Craigslist and has been in our dining room for a little over a year, functional but really needed redone.

I got the kick in the butt motivation I needed when I learned that my husbands sister and brother in law were coming to visit for a week from England. Even though we didn't sit down to eat at it (they don't have a Cheesecake Factory over there) I'm feeling pretty good about finally getting it finished. :)

The chairs had already been previously sanded down (yay!)
So after wiping them down I was able to start staining them.

I was unsure of what type of wood/color would work best so I choose the Red Oak and it seemed to match the table quite well.

Luckily it was one of the few nice days we had in April and I was able to stain them in the driveway.

This is probably the biggest stain job I have ever taken on, I use a foam craft paintbrush that would extremely well, it really held a lot of stain and spread it very well. The one suggestion I have is to make sure that after it dries that you wipe it down really well, a couple of days after I was still finding sticky spots.

Two of the chair cushions looked like this^

I took the first piece off to use a template and this was underneath, with these two I just covered right over them, figured there was no need to change the padding and it was a lot cheaper.

I laid out the first piece of fabric and cut around it, just a rough estimate, I don't like to measure anything if I don't have too :)

The second two chairs had these cushions on them, I was tempted to leave them unattached and just cover them, but I want the table to look somewhat uniform. When I took this covers off, underneath was two feather cushions, I ended up covering over them.