Ok, if you all haven't noticed by now....I am addicted to chairs. Specifically wooden ones, and more specifically OLD wooden ones. So I have been on a journey over the past year now to find the perfect set of antique wooden dining chairs. The table has also been part of the journey, but for some reason I have more of an obsession with chairs than tables. So, as you may have read in a previous post, I painted a mismatched set of chairs for our dining area (soon to be an actual dining ROOM after we move). All of these chairs were green or white, and all were distress painted. It turns out that some of them ended up working for us and others didn't. We still have the old chair which I painted mint green that I found in my grandparents attic (seen in my post "My Day As An American Picker.") I also still have one distressed light sage green reproduction pressback chair, which is the only non-vintage chair now, but looks so awesome that I had to keep it. We moved the white ladder back (painted in an earlier post) into our bedroom because the arms were just too cumbersome at our small table, and gained an old spindled kitchen country chair which I found at a consignment shop. I painted the legs and spindles an antique red and then distressed. I wanted to leave the worn wood seat and back for some more variation. And finally, I finished another old chair from my grandparents garage which is probably from the 1900's-1920's and added that one to the collection. This one is old dark wood, rubbed with oil and the missing woven seat is covered in a traditional cardboard covering and upholstery tacks. I am very satisfied with the way things look now. I love a little dark wood mixed in with the lighter paint. I am now trying to decide what color to paint the table...it is not old and you can SO tell. It's an old country style, but it looks like it was dipped in plastic at a factory, which is probably what happened. I am torn between black distressed and antique white distressed. I am leaning towards white. Anyway, the only change I could possibly make to the chairs is if I come across an actual antique pressback, and then the reproduction would have to move over for the real thing. Until then, enjoy some pictures of some fabulous old chairs...( sorry if the photo quality is iffy, I can't figure out how to upload pics from my iPad onto Blogger, for some reason it is not letting me.)
First of all, these are the three old chairs I found in my grandparents' garage and attic. The one in the front actually was just redone by me for my mom, I will show you pictures another day. The other two you will spot in the following photos, if you can recognize them....
And here's one of my reproduction pressback looking springy...
Looooove this chair, it looks old and the only thing that will make me happier is a REAL antique pressback (my mom has two but she's not giving them up, and I don't blame her.) Speaking of pressbacks, I thought you chair lovers might like to read this article, about the
the pressback method.
Here also are some photos of one of my mom's amaaaaaaazing Victorian pressback (it was my great grandmother's) hanging out with another reproduction which I painted a darker sage green and distressed. I like to think they are friends..haha
Is this not the most beautiful chair ever?? I can't believe my mom won't let me have it! Haha
I also wanted to show you this photo that I found randomly while researching...someone else took almost the exact photo I did of their gorgeous green antique pressback! Great minds think alike!
