Out with the old and in with the new...sort of

When we built our house 6 and a half years ago we got bar stools as a Christmas Gift from Chris' aunt. I LOVED them!!! They had a cream seat cover...they stayed nice & clean until we had kids and along with time they started looking really bad...I mean BAD. So it was time to do something.

I really liked the style of them and hated to buy new ones so I decided to recover them. The process of me finding the material that I liked took some time. You see we never put curtains up in our kitchen...yes 6 and a half years of no kitchen curtains...wide open. I was never in a rush for any until Chris' cousin built to the backside of our house. And here I will admit...that if you were to show up at our house in the morning before 8 or at night after 9 I would be totally embarrassed and you would be totally shocked/embarrassed. I usually sleep in a old big tshirt. It covers everything but I would still be embarrassed. I know I am not the only person who does this. So it was time to cover up the windows.

So for Christmas I ask for this to hang on the wall in the kitchen...


This is from Bed Bath & Beyond. I love all the different colors. I ended up getting curtains in the blue to match the big plate in the center. I really didn't want to use a blue for the bar stools. It is so hard to find something to exactly match so I went with a something that matches the plate collage.

Here is a picture of the before...

and here is the after...

I love how they turned out. I had never done anything like this before. With help from my mother in law they look awesome. That is one thing checked off the list of things to get done.

Here is a little sneak peak of something else I am working on...

Hopefully I will get this finished within the next week or so. Keep looking back.

Bethany