The chair is solid wood, and the hardware is in good shape. This photograph was taken after an hour of scrubbing and using Goo Gone to remove dozens of children's stickers- most of which were at least 15 years old. As you can tell the chair is missing several of it's original wood plugs. So thus far I have removed all the wood plugs, tightened all the hardware, and lightly sanded the chair. I got on Amazon and ordered Replacement Wood Plugs for $1.89.
After my wood plugs arrived, I reinserted as many original wood plugs as I could and added the replacement plugs. Three of these needed wood glue to hold them in place, because the opening had become wider than original.
That's as far as I have gotten at this point. I am thinking about using this in Little Man's room with an antique desk his grandmother found. I definitely want to paint it. But for now, Little Man is enjoying having our new coffee table and his chair for snack time.
In other projects, I decided I wanted to paint a piece of trim over my kitchen sink. Here is the area taped off and ready for paint.
Our kitchen cabinets are solid white, but we have a dark brown trim in part of our molding. I was thinking I wanted to mimic the brown color to accent the design of this trim.
This is the first coat of paint. I am going to let it dry over night then do a second coat. Once this is finished, I will take a photo up close and further back. This should give an idea of what it looks like framing the window and tying into the molding.
My fingers are crossed that this will work out. If not, it's going to take a lot of white paint to hide that brown. Sometimes its fun just to take a risk and paint is an easy fix.
Go paint something today!
KL
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