The Failed Perfectionist

Here’s what the chairs looked like before.

Partly stained, partly worn off.  Some stained really dark, and some painted red in the middle.

Antiques road show be damned, I wanted something I could live with and somehow I doubt that this set was ever gonna get sold on e-bay for thousands.  Here’s a close-up of one of the tops.->

The finish color wasn’t actually that bad, but where it was rubbed off, the wood was very dry and lighter colored.

So after a week worth of stripping and sanding and staining and refinishing, I finally wrapped up the hard stuff yesterday.  The seats got recovered with some bargain brocade fabric that I found on sale at Jo-ann fabrics.  I’ll put up pictures of the matching table when I find someone to help me drag it into the house.  Here’s the finished products:

Here’s the captains chair like from the before photo.

Close-up of the top after refinishing.

And the fabric is below, although my camera kept trying to use the flash which kept making the silk reflect like crazy.  It’s a pretty dark brown.