See these dining chairs?


They're about to get a whole lot cuter! 

I am finally ready to fix-up them with new, made-by-me slipcovers and today I'm going to show you my project inspiration. 


Before I can do that, however, I need to tell you about my fabulous deal. (Because I just can't resist sharing!)

This spring I scored a fantastic deal on this dining room table and chairs on Craig's list.  (I'm still doing a little happy dance about it because it was so awesome! No joke!) 



I looked for a new dining room table for several months.  I had specific criteria; it needed to be a bigger table than what we had so it could seat a lot of people, I wanted it to look rustic and charming, and the chairs needed to be comfy -- preferably upholstered.  But between the price of new, the dimensions I needed and the look I wanted it wasn't coming easily. 

And then one day the clouds opened, the angels started singing and I found this set on Craig's List for $450.  TOTAL.  (Hear the angel choir singing?!)  lol I swear to God I thought I heard angels singing -- or maybe that was just me.  Ha!

Of course, they need a little face lift because this fabric color is not my style at all...but just look at the good bones on these babies! 



See any resemblence to this?


Yes, the legs on my chairs are different and, truthfully, a little curvier than I was hoping for but, my God, the price!! 

The PB chair starts at $199 each and the Wisteria chair is $499 each.

Hello?!  Even with the cost of fabric for recovering the chairs I am MILES ahead!

Take a closer look at my table.



Looks pretty similar to this one from Wisteria don't you think?!


Wisteria price tag? $1999.00! 

My table has rounded little curves on the ends which I wasn't sure about at first when I saw it online, but in person it is a very beautiful piece of furniture and looks like it's brand new. The woman who owned the set was meticulous. No lie. I mean, she helped us load it up as if it were her baby giving us extra blankets to protect it and she even emailed me after we left to make sure I got it home okay without any scratches!

Oh how I love finds like these.  Even my husband, who is often skeptical of my Craig's list and garage sale escapades, was a little stoked about this deal.  He even called his parents to come over to see it.  No kidding!

Okay...so I digressed a lot here.  The point of today's post really is to tell you about what I'm going to do with them.  Because if I tell you what I'm going to do with them, then I really have to do it.  (Smile)

I actually bought the fabric almost immediately after purchasing the chairs (it's a plain white twill -- super washable) and I started to make a slipcover.  Then I got stuck. 


I've never made a full slipcover before.  I sort of did one once for a small upholstered rocking chair in my daughter's room but that was a little different.  I was able to tuck some pieces in and do some stapling here and there to make it look like a full slipcover or upholstery job.

Since I got stuck a couple of months ago I have let the chairs sit.  They have waited while I thought, researched, changed my mind, and then thought some more. 

But, today, on Pinterest I found this:


(Cue the angels singing again.)

When I went to the site where this picture came from and I found more great pictures: