Friday, April 2, 2010

They fooled me...

I did buy some chairs from Craigslist...some very,
well used crappy chairs.

[This was the sellers picture]

I wanted extra chairs to have on hand

I bought these thinking some paint and reupholstering and they would look great...
Not the case, when I took them apart the seats were a crumbling mess, 
and the chairs were rickety... 
I tossed the seat cushions and was about to toss the chairs as well.

Then decided to use them as "planters"!

I painted two of them a Tiffany Box blue,
they are going to have flowers sitting on them!

It's still too cold to plant flowers,
however, I got these pink hydrangeas' with blooms the size of your head
they're staying in the house for now!

I used my Cricut to cut out the branches and the birds

I'm loving the pink and blue together,
this is going to be my color scheme this year
 when I start planting flowers again!

if they could only stay like this forever

kind of looks like it could be a water bowl for a St. Bernard!


The 3rd chair is going to be painted a light yellow
and I'll put it on the front porch with our address on it and a big Boston Fern sitting on it!
I'm still searching Craigslist for some decent chairs that aren't planters!

5 comments:

  1. Well you certainly made them adorable and useful regardless...I love the birds and color!~

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  2. What a great back-up plan! They look so sweet!

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  3. I've always thought chairs made good planters. Plants need a place to sit down too! I love the fern in a yellow chair idea, it will be one of a kind with the house numbers! You are very creative.
    Love
    Marcie

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  4. That was a clever idea! That way your not out on anything..

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  5. Gorgeous! Love the color and the birdie design...so sweet! I have always love the look of old chairs as planters - your look marvelous! I am a new follower.
    Holly
    504 Main

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