How to re-cover chairs and lightbulb deal!

In today’s news: we recovered our chairs! Here is what they look like!

They started off like this – $5 each at a yard sale

Then, we recovered them to look like this:

And then they were getting faded and we were ready for a new wood finish.

To get the old finish off I hired my teenage daughter to use the electric sander to take the finish off – it took 2 hours! Sanding finish off is not my favorite, I was happy to hire that one out. Remember Landon’s diy headboard with light that we made this spring?? We just used the leftover stain from that – it is a combination of Minwax classic gray stain with a little provincial.

And for the fabric? We used curtains from Target! One light gray 95” panel covered both chairs!

I loved the color and texture of the fabric:

As I’m looking at the picture I’m seeing some spots where the fabric could have been tucked in better (and straightened!) and some corners that were missed in sanding but I still like them and happily keep them in the family room off of the kitchen where we can slide them over for big family dinners.

AND! I need to tell you about a crazy good light bulb deal I found at Lowes. I have been slowly replacing my chandelier lightbulbs with these ones from Walmart – the 40 watt ceiling fan bulbs that I love the shape of – kind of an Edison type style and they last forever (well, 10,000 hrs) and take much less energy. But they are $6.74 for a 2 pack so I just pick one up every month. WELL, last week at Lowes I saw this crazy good sale for the same Kichler bulbs but they were 99 cents each (reg price $3.98) and didn’t get good reviews.  They also have the same style in a 60 watt equivalent and I got free parcel shipping.

But I thought: why not try and if they don’t work I can return them? I’m happy to report they all worked and so I ordered them for all of my indoor and outdoor light fixtures that they fit and are beautiful!  It’s hard to get a good picture of them when they are on but here is one:

and this is what they look like in the day:

Just wanted to give you a heads up if you are in the market for some LED lightbulbs!

I’ll be back tomorrow with CME + Deals!