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Patio Furniture Re-do

When we lived in our old house, the colors of our patio furniture where all oranges and rust and reds. When we moved here, all the furniture we had didn’t quite fit the patio space, nor was I in love with the color scheme anymore. I wanted blues and greens. Since we had already either given away or sold the other outside furniture, I put the table and chairs up for sale on Craigslist and sold it within just a few hours. It was easily the fastest Craigslist sale for me, ever.

Then, I set to work finding a new set. I found this set on Craigslist.

Craigslist find

While it looked good in the pictures on the post, in real life, it was filthy and stunk to high heaven of smoke. Ick.

Before

It literally took me twenty to thirty minutes to clean each of the six chairs, and another hour and a half to clean the table.

Before

I gave all the pieces a quick rubdown with sandpaper, and then painted all the pieces with Rustoleum’s Navy Blue gloss spray paint.

Rustoleum’s Navy Blue

Love the color, which isn’t too dark, isn’t too brilliant.

After many coats of paint, I was still finding places that I missed. I guess that’s to be expected with all the knots on the chairs though. It took two days and seven cans of spray paint to finish the task, but I love the results.

Then, I set off to JoAnn Fabrics to find some fabric. Thankfully, they seem to have finally gotten some new fabrics (seems like they had the same stuff for years!), and I was able to find three color coordinated fabrics – one pattern, one solid (with texture) and one striped.

We stripped off the old fabric, both layers of them, and sprayed the cushions liberally with Febreeze. And then, after they dried, I did that last part again. Seriously, it was crazy how stinky they were. And finally, we recovered them and replaced the cushions on the chairs.

Patio set – after

I love the finished product! Now, I have to sew new covers for the bench cushions and pillows, and the patio update will be done. Will share that as soon as I finish them.

Thanks for stopping by!

Eliesa

Comments

  7. Beautiful! I have been trying to come up with a new color to refinish my old patio set and think you just helped me to decide! What a nice refreshing change from what you see in the stores, Love it!!

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  9. You did such a fantastic job! I am eager to see what else you bring new life to. I love your spraypainted chair as well and sent the link to my sister.

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  11. Great work! Love this redo. I can not believe you’ve changed the table and chairs so much with just a coat of paint and some new fabric.

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  13. Do you know who the manufacturer of the fabric is? We got cushions from Costco last summer in the same material and would love to cover some other chairs we have

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    • Hi Patty – I have no idea. I bought it at Joann’s Fabrics, and it’s outdoor fabric, if that helps. Sorry! I don’t have any scraps left to check it either.

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  3. […] I recently purchased this patio set off of Craigslist. I promptly spray painted it navy blue and recovered the seat cushions. There’s nothing like a little bit of Rust-Oleum’s Navy Blue Gloss paint and fabric from JoAnn’s to make something feel/look completely new. If you want to check out the makeover, click here. […]

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