A Garage Sale Dining Chair Upcycle With Pillow

I found this vintage chair last summer at a garage sale for $4.

It has had some repairs on the spindles and needed a few more repairs as well with glue and clamps.

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I painted the wooden chair with two coats of Dixie Belle Chalk Finish Paint in Hurricane Gray

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I used to hate painting chairs with all the skinny spindles and legs, but not any more.

I now use the Zibra Grip-n-Glide 1-Inch Square Paint Brush. It spreads around the spindle or chair leg and gets three sides at once.

I used Dixie Belle Chalk Finish Paint in Drop Cloth to paint just the top front of my chair back.

If you follow my blog regularly, you know that I am a big fan of buffalo checks. So are my daughters, friends and most of the locals as well.

I have used this *Old Sign Stencils Buffalo Check stencil over and over again.

*Old Sign Stencils provided me with complimentary samples.

All opinions about these fabulous stencils are my own.

Here I taped the stencil on a diagonal over the Drop Cloth (off white) top of the chair back.

I stenciled on the buffalo check pattern with Dixie Belle Chalk Finish Paint in CAVIAR (black).

Dixie Belle Paint, once cured in about 30 days, is durable without wax or a sealer.

Since my chair will not likely get used often as a dining chair, I wiped on Dixie Belle Best Dang Furniture Wax in Clear with an Intex Pfc-99972-50t Precision-fiber Paint & Cleaning Rag. These rags work well for wax application.

You can also use an old tee shirt. One rag to apply the wax and one to wipe it off.

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Here is the chair back with my buffalo check stencil on the diagonal.

I like the gray, off white and black together on this chair.

This is a 12" x 20" pillow cover from Hobby Lobby. These covers come in three different sizes.

They are on sale for $3.49 this week at Hobby Lobby! If you miss the sale, they are half price at least one week per month.

The 12" x 20" pillow inserts are not available at Hobby Lobby. I purchased some feather/down blend inserts at Ballard Designs last year, but Ballard's no longer carries them.