Jenni's Chairs

While I was visiting the family this past week, Jenni asked me to update a pair of her chairs.  The story of how she got them has many versions (isn't your family like that?), but from what I gathered, my mom got them for free from her old office, took them over to Jenni's when she first got married and left them.  They did need a little help.  

Here is what they looked like before:

 

One arm needed a little bit of gluing.

It's not like they are in super horrible shape, but they certainly aren't Jenni's style.  She picked out the fabric and paint color, and I did the work.  Well, most of the work.  I did do all the painting, but the thing about using someone else's garage to work in is that you use someone else's tools. The staple gun that my mom gave me at first was way to big for my little hands and I had to use two hands just to press down and therefore couldn't hold the fabric tight at the same time as stapling.  We found a smaller gun, but problems still ensued.  Enter the mom.  She held while I stapled. 

This is us working.

This is Jenni working. :)

I confess, she did cut off the excess fabric and tell us what staples had fallen out. Silly chairs and their lack of equal wood frame around the seat cushion. (P.S. Thanks to best friend Olivia for taking the pictures that I knew nothing about at the time and clearly came in handy later!)

All in all, I think they turned out pretty good.  Nothing like family teamwork!

 

 

Much more cherry.  I mean cheery!

Don't you agree that Jenni and Sara are lucky to have me?  ;)