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Rescue a Thrifted Barstool {DIY}

July 6, 2012 Leave a Comment
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I’ve been a little absent lately…but for good reason!  I am putting the finishing touches on my basement craft room – a place where I can be creative while the kids are sleeping.  I have a whole pile of projects to share, but I haven’t quite gotten around to writing the posts.  So, please forgive me.

No one goes to a yard sale saying, “Hum, I could really use a flesh-colored barstool.” Except me.  This hideously-colored metal beast called to from me from a pile of junk last weekend after a Storage Wars wannabe sold all items of value from his locker gambles and then put out the rest at a yard sale.  I have never seen such junk.  Ever.  But through the piles of dirty clothes and broken tools, I saw this beauty:

It looked 10X worse in person, I promise.  You can’t even see how ugly the color is in the photos.

 

I had been looking for a high stool for my craft table and realized this stool would work just fine with a little TLC.  I told my husband there was no way I was paying more than $2 for the chair, and luckily the seller wanted to get rid of this ugly chair as much as I wanted to rescue it – bid accepted.

1.  When I got home, I wiped the chair down with Clorox wipes (twice) to get through the multiple layers of funk coating the legs.

2. I removed the seat which was in surprisingly good shape (besides the unfortunate flesh-toned vinyl that covered it).  I then coated the rest of the barstool in Rust-oleum Lemon Grass which has a really nice, yellow citron color to it.

 

3.  Using a tank top that Little Guy had stained with his food-covered baby hands, I cut off the back of the shirt, stretched it across the existing seat, and used a staple gun to attach it.  I cut off the extra material and the seat was done.

 

4. I screwed the seat back onto the freshly-painted stool and my new, fab citron-and-gray stool was born:

 

It is comfortable and fresh – and cost me a total of 2 bucks.  Perfect for this crafter on a budget!

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Heather Schugar is an educator, author, and mom-of-all-trades. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, and her work has has been featured in national outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Real Simple magazine, and Men’s Fitness.

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