Operation Kitchen Nook: Phase 1

We have a breakfast nook in our kitchen with awesome windows and nice views.  We do all our eating there since we decommissioned the formal dining room and are currently using it as a temporary office/play space.  When we eventually gut and remodel the kitchen the nook will hopefully be turned into a first floor laundry/mud room.  In the meantime, it could use a little sprucing up.  Enter Operation Kitchen Nook. 

The first task was to recover the hideous kitchen chairs.  The chairs themselves are great.  They came from the basement of my Grandpa & Grandma Vander Kooi.  I refinished one as a 4-H project in junior high.  At that time I recovered the seat in some gaudy floral fabric that looked nice for a single project chair.  When I got married my Grandma Boote chipped in and helped make sure three more chairs in the set got refinished.  (There is still a 5th chair plus a captain's chair in our basement waiting for someone to love them someday.)  At that time I found some nice, dark blue upholstery fabric to recover the seats.  It looked great in our first house and soon again in the Dutch-themed kitchen in our Denver house. 

However, seven years and two kids later, they were disgusting.  Seriously, I think if anyone knew what had spilled on them just in the last 3 years they wouldn't have sat on them. :op 

Anyway, I found some spiffy new reddish vinyl material for 50% off and learned a little lesson on forms of batting/padding.  Ten dollars worth of materials, a staple gun and an afternoon nap period later we have brand new chairs that look tons better and are WASHABLE! :o)

Next up is Phase 2: Curtains