$20 Bistro Set

When last I typed, I told of my fabric painting of two wing-back chairs.

I had a little issue....... I ran out of paint.  I remedied the problem and they are now ready to be waxed and will be coming soon.

Almost two weeks later.  Story of my life.

So in the meantime I crossed a few other things off on my to-do list.

I picked up this little bistro set at a garage sale last Fall for a deck off the master bedroom.  I thought I was getting a good deal at $20 for the three piece set.

That is till I bought spray paint.

I decided that a textured look would be fine, and bought a couple cans of the expensive stuff, the rusty iron look or something.

Then I ran out of those two cans.

Tell me please how it could possibly have taken 4 cans of seven dollar spray paint to paint the metal on that set?

The math....
3 piece bistro set...................$20.00
4 cans of $7 spray paint.......$28.00

Whatever... I was too far in at that point to stop.

I finished painting the set and it sat on the deck with no seats for, ummm..... 8 months.

To be fair, 5 of those 8 inactive months they were covered in snow.

The chairs came with two round wood seats that needed to be cushioned.

I am not a cushion-er.

So what I did was buy two square outdoor pillows on clearance and turn them into round tuffets' for the chairs.

First the innards were taken out and the square foam was cut in the shape of the round seat.

Then the man with the stapler took pity on me and attached the outdoor cushion to the wood.

And now I have two chairs we can actually sit on.

I can enjoy a cup of brew on the deck while the mornings and evenings are still cool and the bugs haven't hatched!