Life with my 3 Js: Making our house a home...dining chairs DIY project

I managed to get another DIY project completed. Rather, I was forced to.

It all began with a dining room set. We inherited the dining set from J's grandmother. The chair fabric was pretty worn but the main furniture pieces was pretty solid so I decided to keep and use them in our dining room. Any way to save a buck!

So last Friday, I started to remove the old fabric.

On Saturday, I picked up the fabric and chair cushions from Walmart.

Fabric: $13.44

Cushion: $13.66

On Sunday, we picked up a heavy duty staple gun and staples from Home Depot.

Staple gun: $18.99

Staples: $4.25

Well, things got quite busy since we were celebrating our anniversary so this project was put on hold.

However, because J had already unscrewed the chair bases and I had already started removing the cushion and fabric, J and I had to immediately finish the chair since we're having guests this weekend.

So while I put on the fabric and stapled it to the chair base, J screwed them back and helped with stapling when my hands got tired.

Here's the finished product.

It was a 2-hour effort but that kept us up until late on Wednesday night but it was worth it.

On Saturday, while I was out shopping, J put together this coat rack/sitting piece for our front door. This was a wedding gift. We can FINALLY use the items we received after 2-years of marriage :-).

We figured guests can sit there while they take off their shoes.

Furniture piece/mirror: Free

2-Baskets: $12.98 (I used a 40% off coupon I had for Michael's)

I purchased the baskets from Michael's on sale. On holds clean socks and the other will be used to put dirty socks.

While out shopping on Saturday, I found a nice set of towels at Wal-mart that I figured would look nice in the half bathroom downstairs. So I purchased them and put ribbons I already had at home (I keep ribbons from gift wrappings).

2-Towels: $9.96 total

Ribbons: Free

On another note, here's a picture of our happy baby. Right before she proceeded to keep mommy and daddy up most of the night :-). I love love love that smile!