I've been wanting to paint my dining room furniture for a while now. It's black. Table, six chairs and a hutch. The floors in my dining room are cherry hardwood. It makes it look too dark in there. So, since a new set isn't in the budget....even though I have a thing for buying tables...I'm going to paint it. I went to the hardware store last night and bought primer and paint. A nice greige color (my new favorite). For now I'm just going to paint the chairs and the back of the shelves in the hutch. I might do the table too....but I'll see how it looks with the chairs lighter first. I'm so excited to do this, that I woke up at 5:45 this morning. I'm crazy.
Also, there were these upholstered, tufted dining chairs I loved at Pier One. I wanted to buy two...one for each end of the table, but they were $200 each. Not in the budget. I stopped in there last night, just to look at them again. I thought I'd do an online search to see if I could find something similar for a lot less money. Well, the display chair didn't have a tag on it, so I asked the salesclerk how much it was. She looked it up and it's on clearance for $58.00. Holy shit! The only problem is, they only have one. They checked all the other semi-local stores and no one else had one. So, I bought the one, and I'll use it as an arm chair in my kitchen, until I find something else for the other end of the table. It's a print chair, so I can find something else to make a pair, even if it's not exactly the same....it will give my dining room an eclectic look, right?
Here's what the chair looks like:
12 comments:
have them look at stores near friends and family to see if anyone can pick up the display for you. my zipcode is 21207 and i go to a pier one near 21045. if you bought it near me, i'd be willing to meet you half-way (you're not that far away!) and hand it over to you free-of-charge. sometimes we gotta help a broard out.
I'm still in love with greige and am planning to paint almost my whole downstairs pure white, except I want to make the dining room a grey/blue and the kitchen sea glass blue. I am scared to paint furniture because I don't know what I'm doing, but we have 24-year-old table in the kitchen that is in desperate need of refinishing and I was thinking of staining it black so the wood grain still shows through. So many projects...
(love that chair, schell)
I like the chair! I've never been brave enough to paint furniture.
So, are you all staying in the house?
I love that chair!
wth is greige?
@Emma -- I was wondering too but . . . didn't want to ask since everyone else seemed to know what it is. I'm assuming grey/beige?
Emma . . . I found this: http://greigedesign.blogspot.com/2010/06/perfect-color.html
Thanks Urban...
it's a relaxing sort of color.
anyone remember a few years ago when sage green was the hot color?
Emma, there are tons of web sites dedicated to the greige lifestyle (haha.) Mostly, it's using that color family of greys, browns and greens, with white. It can definitely look very austere. But I think my downstairs would look great with it.
Tree...love that blog...the pictures are fantastic. However, I clicked on the shopping greige link....Who would pay over $250 for a throw pillow??????
Not me! I think you can greige on the cheap. (Though we're not doing the painting ourselves.)
I believe greige is the color of my love's true hair.
Ded
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