One year ago today I started working at the Minnesota State Fair. During the two weeks that I worked there the weather was unbearably hot and humid. Luckily this year I am not working at the fair. This year I am able to work in my garage on some projects that I am really excited about. The humidity has finally dropped and so today was a great day to work on the settee I had started last week.

Last time I worked on this I found that under the fabric there was beautiful knotted bamboo on the one side. Fortunately, I discovered today that the bamboo was in great shape on both sides of this piece, so I decided not to recover it in fabric.

My go-to when I paint a piece of furniture is the Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint in the color Trophy. I went with this color on the settee piece as well, and as it was drying I started on another project. We all know how exciting it is to watch paint dry, so please take a moment and enjoy this picture of paint drying 🙂

Here’s the back story for you about this next project.

Last week, my friend Alyssa’s mother-in-law had a garage sale. After the sale was over, I received pictures of some of the items that were not sold. Initially, I got a picture of a single chair but what I really needed was four chairs to go around this table that we bought last week.

So I asked if she had any. And she did! Those chairs were what I started working on while the paint on the settee dried. (There are actually four chairs, but I was too lazy to pull them all out into the back yard to take a picture.) Bonus points for honesty.

My plan was to paint the legs of the farm table the same color as the chairs surrounding it. The chair pads also had to be reupholstered, so I went to take them off before painting. I flipped one of the chairs over to find this tag.

I looked up Tell City Chair Company. After some digging, I found these exact chairs on Ebay. They were selling for $229 PER CHAIR!

I almost fell off my chair! 😉

This changed things a little bit. Now I want to keep them as close to original as possible. They are in pristine condition already so it shouldn’t take much! I’ll show you on Saturday what I came up with.

~Wendy