We painted our dining table and chairs an ice blue color a few years ago to freshen them up a bit. It was a pretty color that went well in our kitchen.
When we moved a few months ago, we decided we needed them to match our living room better since they were right next to it. The ice blue looked great by itself but not when next to the oranges and turquoise of the living room.
We thought we could do a yellow color pulled from a painting on the living room wall.
Here they are getting ready for yellow.
Well, the paint was thin. When we did the first coat, it looked green and not at all pretty. We thought if we just painted enough coats, the pretty yellow would work fine.
After six coats of paint (did you all hear that? Six.) and several weeks of work, Phillip put it all back together. And he hated it. I didn't notice anything wrong for a while, but the more we looked at the yellow, the more we realized it did not work at all. The table top is stained a reddish color, and the two colors were awful together.
Jonathan sat down for lunch one day with his red shirt on and said, "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?" And that was the end of that. We were getting rid of the yellow.
Phillip works full time during the day and I was done with schooling, so I went over to Mimi and Papa's garage for several days and stripped the chairs down to wood. The kids took some turns coming over to help a bit. But it took 7-8 hours per chair. Phillip wanted to trash it all and just buy something new. I decided after all the work, that if the new color didn't work, we would indeed do that.
We decided to spray paint instead of brush. The colors are limited with spray paint, but we played it very safe and went with Almond. I have to say that spray paint was the best decision we made throughout this whole process. It went on quick, it dried very fast, we only had to do two coats.....
So that has been our Dining Table Saga.
We can now eat all together and start inviting company over for meals.
Thank goodness!
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