Take A Seat

These chairs were for sale at a silent auction in my local church hall and as I was the only person who bid for them, they were very cheap. I think nobody else was interested because they were pretty battered and scuffed.
They sat in my garage for a few weeks because I couldn't decide what to do with them, but one morning it just came to me.
I decided to paint and stencil the seat and back rests only, leaving the legs unpainted.







Once the white paint was dry, I added stenciled pattern using a soft grey colour and a mix of different stencils.
On the chairs where I used the repeating pattern, I decided to leave a part of the back rest plain. This was for no reason other than I thought it looked good, although I did deliberate over this a little.
Finally I added a couple of coats of water based, clear, matt varnish.
Because I left the legs unpainted, it was such a quick project to complete but I'm really pleased with the results. In fact I have also painted and stenciled the remaining three chairs grey with white stencils and they look pretty good too





Take a look at my blog for more details and if you want to find the stencils take a look at my website here
www.nicolettetabram.co.uk






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