3rd Journal Entry- Our New House

DIY project number 1.  Recover the seat cushions on our newly acquired dining room chairs.  While repositioning our living room, we came up with an idea to see if two of the dining room chairs would go on each side of an end table to create an additional seating area.  One thought led to another.  The lamps we had been using in our bedroom now found a new home one on the end table and one of the sofa table in the living room.  They matched in color and style perfectly.Then my husband said "Do you think the iron wall plaque would to above this grouping?"  hmm
  I said, "Yes, I think it will.  Let's try it."  Another item previously used in our bedroom has now been moved to the living room.  The cool thing about using a central color scheme throughout your home is that you can change things from room to room and use in a totally different way and it still match.  Love it!  The iron piece tied in so well with the other pieces making this  grouping ideal. The one thing that HAD to be done to complete this look was to reupholster the chair cushions.  The old material simply would not do.  So off to America's favorite craft store, Hobby Lobby.   Diligently, we looked over the isles of material.  Then I  saw a pattern I really liked.  The colors complimented the colors in our living room and our dining room adjoins it so would work fabulous there too.

Neither one of us had ever attempted to recover anything before, but had been told by several friends it was doable and we decided to take on this task head-on with the help of "YouTube".

See below the chair before recovering, then the look with the new material, and lastly the grouping.

Ta da!  The finished product.  Credit goes to my husband who took this project on solely by himself and did an outstanding job!  Very pleased at the outcome and his newly acquired talent:)