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Create A Bar Room Brawl: Over this Bar Stool Makeover

July 6, 2015 By Karen Creel

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Why do you bring this stuff home? Have you ever heard that from a family member? Because they were inexpensive,  an I think they deserve a bar stool makeover.

coffee stool before www.gardenchick.com

I love a project and these stools were perfect.   They were found at a local thrift store for 10.00 each and I have had them stored away for months.  Since I needed to do a blog post, I thought this was a great time to bring them out and give them a bar stool makeover.

First, I pulled off the old red checked material.  I think they had been recovered once with an old plastic tablecloth.  What a mess underneath.  This was going to be more work than I had anticipated.

 

coffee stool before cleaning www.Gardenchick.com

 

Cleaned and scrubbed, they looked a little more promising.  A little…..

coffee stool cleaned up www.gardenchick.com

Now, what to cover them with?  I didn’t want anything too bright.  I had some oil cloth with flowers in reds, yellows, and blues, but no, if I decided to sell, that might limit them to someone with those colors.  Then I saw them.  The basket of burlap coffee bags.  I had to pick one that I didn’t mind cutting apart.  So I chose one, then sprayed the stools chocolate brown to go with the burlap.

coffee stool burlap bag www.gardenchick.com

I laid out the top and bottom parts of the stool and cut pieces to fit.  Again, this was proving to be more trouble than I thought. How was I going to keep the cloth around the pieces until they could be replaced on the stool?  Glue definitely wouldn’t work, and I couldn’t nail it on.  I settled on lacing it up with twine.  This also allowed me to tighten it up.

coffee stool assembly www.Gardenchick.com

The top piece finished.

coffee stool top piece www.Gardenchick.com

 

And then the bottom.

coffee stool seat www.Gardenchick.com

 Put back together, that old stool looks pretty good.

Coffee sack chair www.gardenchick.com

So don’t overlook that bargain.  It may be a diamond in the rough.  Now, on to finish the second stool.

Karen

 

 

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Comments

  1. Heather - New House New Home says

    July 10, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    Fantastic makeover!! I must admit that I probably would have taken them to the junkyard with all that rust. But you saved them!


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