Here a chair, there a chair.

Hello.  I invite you to have a seat. Or rather six seats, because there are six chair makeovers coming your way right now!  Actually one of them is not really a chair, and one is kinda sorta of a rug makeover, but that just makes it more exciting, yes?  Here we go.

Drake wanted to get down to the bare wood on this spindle chair, but then he realized that the spindles would be super obnoxious to sand and strip, so he simply painted those parts black and left the rest a natural wood.  I’m not sure if that’s REALLY what happened, but I know for sure that’s what would happen if I was in charge. Sanding. Not easy.

See it on his blog Gamer With A Hammer. And can I say how fun it is to be getting more and more submissions from the fellas lately?  Yay, boys!

Sara at Thrifty Treasures thought this chair could use a ‘mullet-makeover,’ which is to say business in the front, party in the back.  The front received a classy damask print, and the back, a zippy chevron.

Wha what?  You want MORE chevron?  Who doesn’t?  Maybe some people, but I’m not one of them.  I love this rocker makeover from Kayla at Furniture Remix.  Her tagline is “Same stuff, new twist,” which perfectly sums up combination of lime chevron fabric on this bentwood rocker.  Doesn’t it look like, ten thousand times happier?

And speaking of happy, Kammy at Kammy’s Korner brought more happiness to this sewing bench than a sack of clowns!  A sack of clowns actually sounds quite terrifying, now that I say it out loud.  Sorry.  Try to get that image out of your head, and get this one in instead: 

So cute!  But she wasn’t done yet, here is another from Kammy, probably my favorite of the entire bunch.  It just looks so regal! But I also love how she kept it playful by reversing the stripes so they don’t run the same direction. Reversing doesn’t seem like the right word … perpendicular-ing? You know.  See it here.

And lastly, Leslie at Pillow Love bought this great rug on eBay and couldn’t wait to chop it to bits.  There’s a reason her blog is called Pillow Love and not Rug Love, ha!  So of course it became a pillow, a long lumbar pillow for her son’s bedroom. But then there was so much of that great rug left over, she decided to recover the chair in the bedroom too.  What a great way to incorporate something that you love that doesn’t not fit perfectly in a room as is.