Flea Market Flip

I found two of these great chairs at my local flea market last year around Thanksgiving.  I thought with a wee bit of TLC they would be sweet little gems to flip and sell in my antiques booth.














You can tell they were kinda used and abused in their former life.

After I removed the seat and back, I sanded the body with some 80 grit sandpaper.  The original metal had a coat of silver paint and it was flaking and grungy.  I had a spray can of oil rubbed bronze paint that I bought last summer to update some hardware in my bathroom, and that's what I used to give these bad boys a little update.  And I thought oil rubbed bronze was a better match for the fabric I chose.

Don't you just love the pop of green 
and the bold print in this material?!

I'm also a sucker for anything paisley.  I used this same material to update the cushions on my dining room chairs last year.  Believe it or not, I actually bought this material at Wal-Mart.  I added some new batting to cushion the seat and back.  And I used oil rubbed bronze tacks to attach the back flap which covers up all the ugly guts of my reupholstering.

I think they have a kind of modern vibe and yet they still look kind of classic.  The best of both worlds!

















And don't you think they would make a perfect pairing with the little Duncan Phyfe coffee table that I up-cycled a couple of weeks ago?

Do you have a flea market flip that you're especially proud of ?