Broken Chair Repair, Outdoor Treasures
Trash to Treasure Outdoor Décor Hop: Broken Chair Repair
I love getting together with friends to show you a group of ideas and today is a fun one! My trash to treasure hunting buddies are sharing outdoor decor with you today…12 ideas in all, be sure to check out the list below. I’ve had two broken chairs waiting a longtime for their day in the sun!
Originally these matched, but unmatched chairs were purchased at a garage sale for $1/each. Honestly, that’s like giving them away. (I got some other amazing chairs you can see here) I bought them for my kid’s play house with plans to paint them bright colors with oilcloth seats. That never happened. I know y’all think I do a ton of projects here and I do, but I have a ton that get left undone too! With the whole playhouse to chicken coop conversion we have going on all the furniture from the playhouse got displaced which worked out great for a little sitting area I have been dreaming of!
Our front porch is long and kind of boring. I added a headboard bench last year with intentions of creating a nice little sitting area, so finally I’m one step closer with these chairs!
The two broken chairs are matching but the back of one had been cut down for some reason. To solve the uneven back situation I simply cut the other chair down to match with a chop saw.
The chair rails got re-secured with a little wood glue and the ladder backs got a good sanding.
These guys got a spray coat of my handy homemade chalky paint in my favorite color. I busted out the paint sprayer and tent for this project and the chairs only took a few minutes to coat. (I might have painted a few other things too 🙂 )
The chairs were a little stubby and all along I had planned on adding some finials to bring the height back up. 
I drilled holes into the ladder back tops and twisted some wooden furniture legs in to sit as finials.
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As for the seat covers, I love that fact that they already have been dressed in multiple decades! First in mauve velvet and next in country corn flower blue print. You know every time they got covered the owner thought, this will never go out of style, lol! 
Well, my trendy fabric for this makeover is also CHEAP!!! I headed to a local specialty coffee roaster and picked up some coffee bean sacks for $2/each. It was fun, they let me dig through the stack they had and pick out the patterns I liked best, of course I grabbed some extras for some other projects I am thinking of!
They made the perfect seat cover and I stapled them right on top of the mauve and blue fabrics. Someday someone will wonder what I was thinking!
I kind of think of these coffee bean sacks as a poor man’s French grain sack! They are so pretty and a fraction of the cost! 
There is a table I plan on re-doing to nestle in between these chairs and I’d like to add some other décor to make this a cozy porch sittin’ kind of place, but for today my stubby little broken chairs are looking so cute I’m gonna sit back and enjoy them!
I hope you’ll head over and see the other outdoor trash to treasure ideas my junk loving’ friends have come up with!
Kimm at Reinvented
Victoria at Dazzle While Frazzled
Pili at My Sweet Things
Randi at Dukes and Duchesses
Ashley at 3 Little Greenwoods
Courtney at All Things New Again
Lisa at The Purple Hydrangea
Tonya at Hey There Delyla
Denise at My Thrifty House
Wendi at H2O Bungalow
Jeanette at Country Design Style
Sam at Raggedy Bits
Great set of chairs! Now I need a big yard to put stuff in…. I hope you are doing well and the weather is improving in your area. Still cool here, but I am not complaining.
small spaces can look so great, so don’t wish for big! the weather has been nice here, not sweltering yet 🙂
I love your chairs! The coffee bean chairs are perfect. 🙂
thanks, love a coffee bean sack!
Oh my goodness, Kim, they are adorable! I LOVE the legs on the top, they are the perfect detail.
I think they were about $1.25 each – so the cost was right up my alley! Thanks Kimm
I adore the makeover and your seating area. I have a bed ready to become a bench this summer – I might just paint it white!
That would be pretty! I can’t wait to add some more to this area, it’s a process, but I have a whole vision in my head!
Praise God for you. You are so talented. I enjoy your emails and Bible verses. Thank you so much and you have a very blessed day.
Thank you Patricia, I am so thankful for you and your sweet words. Glad to be encouragement for you
I am a huge fan of chairs in general, especially mismatched chairs. They compliment your porch perfectly! Happy porch sitting.
Thanks Lisa – porch sitting is a great pastime 🙂
Super cute! I love the finials on top. You would never know those chairs were different when you started.
yay, mission accomplished, I figured for $1 I could figure it out! Thanks Randi
Smak!
back at ya
Very nice
thanks a bunch
I love these so much! Where do you find your coffee bean bags?
We have a coffee company here locally that roasts their own beans, they sell the sacks there!
Haha ????I like your comment about coffee sacks being the poor mans grainsack!!! That’s so true! Love the way your chairs turned out!
yep – $2 vs $40-60, I’ll take coffee all day!
Darling…..you put the “THRIFT” in thrifty! Great job.
thanks friend!
I like the update of the chairs better than the before design of the chair. It adds character. Great idea to get coffee bags from local roasters! I think we have one in our small community.
thanks Jeanette – you should look them up! I have so many other ideas floating around now for those extra sacks I got!
Wow, I love how you matched the chairs, nobody would ever guess they were mismatched!! Love the finials and the coffee sacks
thanks, the finials are an easy touch!
I can’t believe you could see a way to make those chairs a matched set. Love the new paint technique!
they were so cheap I figured if it didn’t work it wasn’t a huge loss! perfect for outside sitting though!
Great redo! Love how you added the height to the chairs. Visiting from Trash to Treasure Blog Hop.
thanks, they were a little squatty after the trim down they got so this helped!
Kim I love the added extras you added! Super cute!
thanks, can’t wait to dress up the space more
Great makeover. I love the fabric you used.
So awesome! I love the sacks that you used to cover them and how you added the top to the chairs!!
Wooden legs as finials…that is genius!! Love the tobacco sacks as seat covers too! I am glad to see that I am not the only one that covers over old fabric, lol!
thanks – nobody has time to do extra work right? 😉