Winter Projects

Since we have a three day weekend we decided to tackle a few projects on our winter project list. First up was the basement. Since Ben was born the basement seemed to be somewhat of a dumping ground for random items that hadn't found a real home yet. Or things that needed to be donated. We also decided that since Ben got spoiled rotten over Christmas that we needed to work on his playroom (nook) so we had a place to put all his new toys! We broke down our old kitchen table which was in the now play nook. And found real homes for all the random items hanging out on the old kitchen table. We opened, assembled and tried out all the new toys! Now all we need is all the storage systems that I ordered.  Hopefully they will arrive on Tuesday so we can finish up the play nook!
Second up was recovering the dining room chairs. My mom and I had done them about 3 or so years ago (which was also 3 dining rooms ago). Ever since we moved in the Pinetree Drive house I have wanted to recover them from the soft gold color to a navy stripe. Since we find ourselves using the dining room every night since Ben arrived Vince wanted to add more padding to the seats too. We found the fabric-finally after a few trips to fabric stores. Poor Vince, but who would have thought it would be so difficult to find a navy stripe fabric??? We got started by me cutting out the fabric and padding for the chairs while Vince took the seats off the chairs. We did one together to make sure we liked it...and we did! After the first one I had to go tend to Ben aka Mr. Cranky Pants and Vince took over. Who would have thought that Vince would be a great upholsterer-but he sure is! We are both really happy with how they came out. And tonight at dinner I think both our bottoms thanked us!



Old Chair Cover

 New Chair Cover