Repurposed High Chair

Have you ever wished you could find a good reason for hanging on to a sentimental piece of furniture, such as a high. One you may have used as a child, or one your children used as babies and toddlers. After all, it's a family heirloom.

This chair happens to be one I picked up at a garage sale a couple of years ago.

 

 

You can leave it in this condition

 

Or you could paint it

 

I decided to paint it

 

 

I used a buttery yellow called Zest from Valspar.

 

I mixed up some unsanded grout with water and paint. 2 cups of paint, 2 Tablespoons of grout and 2 Tablespoons of water.

This was according to a recipe on Pinterest.

I don't recommend using Valspar Paint when using this recipe.

It worked great for the first coat, but it was a nightmare putting on the second coat!

Certainly not for the fainthearted!

I either am too cheap, too patient or too stubborn, because I should have just discarded the batch and started fresh.

 

I like the color and how it eventually turned out, despite the DIY chalk paint fiasco.

The chair was a little too plain so I picked up a stencil to apply.

 

 

I stenciled the center bunch of flowers, but it didn't seem like enough. I placed the stencil at an angle and only stenciled part of the flowers.

 

I stenciled the smaller flower on the

foot rest and the tray 

 

 

Back to the Repurpose part of this project~

Before I painted the chair I put it in my Garage Sale~

A customer started a conversation with me about her vintage high chair.

She said she uses it as a night stand.

She puts a lamp on the tray and books in the seat.

 

 

 

 

 

I added some additional items.

The books in the seat

A lamp on the tray along with a notebook

Glasses and a pen on the foot rest

and a Towel hanging on the rung

 

 

 

 

 

 

What would you add?