My new chair

I've been wanting a chair for the master bedroom but could not afford what I wanted. It seems like there is no affordable chair out there. I would have even been fine with a simple chair... just like the one I found a few weeks ago. 

I will say, this is the first furniture that I've picked up for free, from the curb, but the house looked clean, the movers just put it out, the chair looked hardly used and i examined it for a while before I decided to pick it up. 

So there I was, with my Matrix car, both kids in the back, double stroller in the cargo area, extra carseat for whatever reason too AND this new, ugly chair. It literally took me 15 minutes to finally have it all in the car. the double stroller and my few Ikea items that I bought a few hours ago in the passenger seat, both kids with the extra car seat in the rear seats and the chair in the back. Since the car would not close, I stopped by someone's house that lived close by that I knew to lend me some string. 

That's how I got home. 

Once at home I looked at the chair again and wondered if I just made a huge mistake picking up this ugly thing... but, I was determined to fix it up.

So I got some fabric (after looking at Joanns and stuff, I decided to go with an Ikea fabric) and I went to work. I've been free-styling this whole thing... just like I do with pretty much anything in my life. But it turned out decently good. I like it.

I really wanted to give it a whole new look with new legs and all, but I also wanted it to be as cheap as possible, so Markus and I decided we'll just whitewash the legs and put them back on. After sanding and sanding, we did the whitewash and we LOVE it. I'm sure we'll use the white stain on other things in the future too... sooo much nicer than just white paint! 

So here we go... "the" chair...

 in it's place... where it belongs!

 See how cool, you can still see the grain of the wood... but it's white! ;)

 Love the fabric. 6.99 a yard and the fabric is suuper wide! I wanted to have a fabric that's simple and would go with any of my many crazy colors I like... I guess I found what I was looking for.