Home: Upcycling a dining table and chairs.

Furniture is expensive, especially nice furniture, so I'm a firm believer that if you can recycle something you already own or can upcycle a charity shop bargain, it's worth a go! We rescued three chairs from Mark's parents, found a super cheap (but slightly boring) table at Ikea and bought some wood stain & a tin of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. This paint is amazing because you can paint over something that has been varnished which saved us approximately 1 billion hours sanding until our fingers fell off. Thanks Annie Sloan! 

Note to Self: these are the things you learned while upcycling. Remember these:

1. It will take longer than you think.  A lot longer.
2. Painting the first chair is fun.
3. That fun won't last. See point 1.
4. Remember to ask your boyfriend if he owns an electric sander before you start sanding by hand.
5. Don't buy cheap sand paper. Ever. It's pointless. Toilet paper would do a better job.
6. When you see these magical ladies on Pinterest complete all these fancy projects when their children are having 20 minute afternoon naps and manage to take pretty photographs to document the process, it doesn't mean you can do the same. You can't.
7. Please don't attempt ever again unless it's really necessary.

Have you ever upcycled anything before? 

xoxo