Kitchen Chairs Upgrade

When I got married I inherited this set of chairs. My husband grew up with these chairs, moved them to college with him, and we've been using them since we got married 6 years ago. They are actually very comfortable, sturdy chairs, but they needed up little "upgrade" to fit in with the farm house table my husband recently built for me.

I roughed them up a little with some hand sanding and then painted them white. Well, actually, it was "December Starlight." Good grief...who knew there were so may different colors of white in the paint store! Lukily it was nice outside and I was able to paint in the yard. Here's how they looked without any distressing, just dry white paint.

After the paint dried I hand sanded them again. This shot is before glaze, after sanding.

Here are some "after" pictures of them in the house.

I do like how they turned out, but I think next time I might go a little harder on the "pre" sanding and a little easier on the distressing. It's hard to paint on a surface that already has been treated, the paint slides off easier and I had to do more than one coat. Lesson learned. :)