Now my chairs are wearing pin stripes

It was ill advised to start at 9 p.m. but recovering my 6 dining room chairs is the most satisfying project I've done in a while. The old blue fabric (right) was disgusting after a few years of toddler eating in the house. I had a grand plan of covering my chairs in Anna Maria Horner's oil cloth (ironically, Blair posted about this today) but my grand plans became realistic plans and I covered the chairs in a striped, nubby, navy linen I had in the cupboard. It's a really lovely fabric and I cannot even tell you how much better my chairs look. File this one under "done is better than perfect." And free is better still. I should also mention, Mr. H made the chairs. Cool, huh?

In other satisfying project news, the comments on Swistle's random post about towels inspired me to turn this:

Into this (in about 5 minutes)

Ahh, much better. Although the towels were surprisingly hard to roll. They kept getting crooked and wrinkly. And the tidy towels encouraged me to clean the shelves where I discovered a whole box of q-tips and some lotion. Yay. Oh, and Mr. H made my towel holder cabinet too. Isn't he handy to have around?

Comments

[Jill S.]

Dang, girl! Can I borrow your husband for a month to rebuild everything in my house?

[Swistle]

OH my gosh, that looks so nice! The towels AND the chairs!

[v8grrl]

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM

are you pregnant? it appears you are nesting
hahahahaa

v8grrl

[Melissa Haworth]

And that there is how rumors start :) Nope, not pregnant, just trying to
make good on my effort to post every day in September. Gotta generate
content somehow!

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM, wrote:

[JenniferB]

You are a lucky girl -- he is does beautiful woodworking!

[erika]

Hurah for handy husbands, I have one too and feel so lucky ;-) The cupboard looks so nice and tidy and your chairs too. I really enjoy projects like that!

[UK lass in US]

I need to trade my husband in for a husband who can make beautiful things like that.