Vintage Wood Seat Folding Chairs

These folding chairs have been a work in progress for a while now.  So while I hate to part with them, I am happy to get them out of my garage!  They were delivered to Rustic Romance and I hope they make a great addition to someone’s home.  If anything, they will make great extra seating with the holidays coming up.

They were pretty beat up when I found them, one more so than the other but with some black paint and little bit of elbow grease  they turned out better than I had hoped!

    

The frames of the chairs were metal but the seats were wood and one looked like it had been left outside in the rain a time or two. At first I tried to spray paint them but it wasn’t sticking in some places and looked blotchy.  So instead I used black chalk paint (not chalkboard paint) because I needed something to stick to the metal and I didn’t want to have to prime them.  It worked and I gave each chair two coats of paint. 

     

Next I pulled out a new stencil that I had ordered from Maison de Stencils. 

I decided to stencil the wood seats and I also added some numbers to each chair back.   Then after everything was nice and dry, I added a coat of wax to all parts of each chair, let it dry, and buffed it off. 

And there you have it.  One of a kind folding chairs.   I am so happy with how they turned out!

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